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

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

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

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...

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...

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...

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...

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

undying life of the world" (Chopin PG). Chopins message of forbidden feminine desire is indicative of the prolific writers...

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...

This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

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

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

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

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...

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

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...

In seven pages the ways in which the author develops the theme through character conflict are discussed. There are 3 sources in t...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

In six pages the development of Kate Chopin's protagonist Edna is discussed. Three other sources are listed in the bibliography....

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

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...

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

novel The Awakening provides insight into the marriages of Edna Pontellier and her friend Adele Ratignolle. Examination of these m...