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Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

In five pages this paper discusses how Kate Chopin portrayed female sexuality in her short story 'The Storm.' There are no other ...

In four pages The Awakening by Kate Chopin is analyzed in terms of the roles of freedom and escapism. Four sources are cited in t...

This essay consisting of two pages examines the symbolic representation of flowers within the context of this short story by Kate ...

In six pages this paper discusses the theme of women's subjugation and how it impacts upon the relationships portrayed in The Awak...

In five pages the significance of Edna to the novella by Kate Chopin and how she symbolically represents Victorian women's desire ...

In eight pages this paper considers how Kate Chopin portrayed the evolving role of women in her protagonist Edna Pontellier in The...

In two pages this paper discusses the character's true self understanding and how it evolves throughout the course of the novella ...

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

but he cant precisely put his finger on the problem either. She is lovely and gracious; she certainly doesnt abuse the children or...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

In five pages this paper discusses what is meant by flight symbolism in this thematic analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. T...

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

or that this story is only a thinly veiled platform for womens suffrage. This story is not just about a womens coming of age or co...

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...