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

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

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

In four pages this essay discusses Kate Chopin's novella in terms of how the protagonist develops throughout. There are 2 other s...

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

In six pages this paper discusses the author's creation of the 'Other' soul as a way of expressing Creole political issues and how...

while maintaining a safe distance so no one is compromised. All the characters enjoy considerable affluence and leisure. None of...

In six pages this essay offers a critique of the once scandalous novel of the late nineteenth century. Five sources are cited in ...

children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministe...

with love and tenderness, a place where man and woman awaken each other to share the beauty and brutality of life together in mutu...

is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

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

(Chopin Chapter VII). She then meets Robert and her life takes a powerful turn. Not only does she engage in a very passionate a...

is set on Grand Isle in Louisiana and the Gulf plays a large part in the narrative. We learn that Edna is very fond of music and ...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

AS the novel develops and Edna works towards finding meaning and creative expression in her life she attempts painting which does ...

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...

ways, but at the same time there are serious hints about her controlled and adequately "mature" life. In many ways the reader can ...

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

In twelve pages dream or surreal time as they are represented in these literary works are examined. Five other sources are cited ...

that Faulkner is telling. We can only speculate as to his reasons for not allowing her to speak directly and instead relying on ot...

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

Invisible Man, a searing portrait of the way in which society ignores the African-Americans in its midst-making them "invisible." ...

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...