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Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin and its Themes

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...

Suicide in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

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...

Life in Reverse in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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

Insanity in Comparative Literature

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

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

Literary Fiction and Self Discovery

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

A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Transformation of Edna Pontellier in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

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

Literary Works of Stephen Crane and Kate Chopin and the Masculinity Concept

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...

Examples of Feminist Criticism in Wharton and Chopin

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

Literary Realism and Social Problems

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

Summary and Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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...

Drama And Philosophy in the Fifth Century BC Great Awakening in Greece

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

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

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

Early American History and Free African Americans

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

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Literature and Freedom Themes

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

Romeo and Juliet Ballet by Sergei Prokofiev

were that his music was overly formal and that his musical harmonies were far to cacophonous. Time has certainly proved such state...

Supporting Female Characters in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Identity of the Protagonist

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...

The Awakening and Gender Criticism

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

Race According to Kate Chopin and Mark Twain

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

Themes of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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

Protagonist Analysis of Edna Pontellier in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

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

Learning Enhanced Through Music

pick to be at the heart of a scientific controversy. Yet, he is one of the principal researchers into the Mozart effect. Perceivi...

Edna Pontellier and the Character Crafting of Kate Chopin in The Awakening

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

Life Lessons in Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger

In a paper consisting of 4 pages protagonist Holden Caulfield's psychological awakenings are explored. There are 4 bibliographic ...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...