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

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

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...

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

This five page paper explores the Great Awakening of 5th century BC Athens. Philosophy coupled with drama in the dissemination of ...

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

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

The Second Great Awakening has typically been identified first as a Christian evangelical movement but it also had an impact on al...

In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...

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

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

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

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...

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

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...

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

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...

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

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...

according to Wolff, cannot find a "partner or audience with whom to build her new story" and she is unable to build one all by her...

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

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

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

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

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...

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...