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feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...

In eight pages the twenty first century perspective is applied to this novel first published in 1899 in order to determine its mes...

Iin five pages this paper examines Edna before and after marriage, considers her 'awakening' and conflict and also incorporates fe...

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...

of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

honesty, no such thing for anyone. She seeks happiness in many avenues of pursuit but she may well be unrealistic in all she pursu...

yo like. Ill be home tonight." The screen door made a little snick as it swung closed, and she was alone. She pulled the gown back...

of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

A 5 page essay exploring the book by Kate Chopin. 1 source....

studying the nature outside the window, and begins to allow us to see that she is experiencing something far more profound and far...

American women writers exposed in their fiction the link between institutional and sexual exploitation of women and female mutenes...

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...