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for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...
Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...
novel The Awakening provides insight into the marriages of Edna Pontellier and her friend Adele Ratignolle. Examination of these m...
This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...
feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...
than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...
An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...
whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...
and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...
person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...
it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...
In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...
In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...
In six pages the development of Kate Chopin's protagonist Edna is discussed. Three other sources are listed in the bibliography....
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...
This paper analyzes the literary technique of foreshadowing as seen in Kate Chopin's work, The Story of an Hour. This five page p...
dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...
This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...
In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...
In six pages this paper analyzes cross dressing featured in the 1982 film Tootsie through the male gaze theories of feminist autho...
was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...
shocked the public because the protagonist, Edna Pontellier differed dramatically from the prescribed gender role for white women ...
sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...
that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...
On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...
ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...
believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...
it. Chopin reveals little of Ednas background, but what she does tell the reader is very significant (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna...
feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...