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for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...

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

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

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

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...

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...

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

In five pages this research paper examines how Chopin carefully crafted protagonist Edna Pontellier to be the central focus of her...

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

themselves aloof until the conditions of their acquiescence are met through achieving an understanding with the men who occupy the...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...

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...

shocked the public because the protagonist, Edna Pontellier differed dramatically from the prescribed gender role for white women ...

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

(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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 six pages Emerson's influence in terms of one's self authority is considered as it is reflected in the protagonist of Edna Pont...

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