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Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

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

Development of Edna in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

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

Analyzing Kate Chopin's Male Characters in 'The Awakening'

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...

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...

Marriage and Independence in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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

The Life and Works of Kate Chopin

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

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...

Independence in 3 Works of Literature

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Local Color in Three American Literary Works

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,...

Freedom and Escapism in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In four pages The Awakening by Kate Chopin is analyzed in terms of the roles of freedom and escapism. Four sources are cited in t...

Love's Success or Failure in Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

Powerful Women and Literature

In six pages this paper examines how powerful women are depicted in The Widow of Ephesus, Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Kate C...

Stories of the Nineteenth Century That Feature 'Unruly' Women

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...

IRA Actions in Great Britain and Terrorism

are made define an abstract concept, there will always be some groups who are able to find exceptions to the definition because of...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

New York City's Fifth Avenue

This research paper examines the various changes in New York City's Fifth Avenue that have taken place since the late Nineteenth C...

Issues of Women's Rights and Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

In five pages this text is analyzed in terms of how it represents the late nineteenth century issues involving impoverished women ...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Older Women and Fertility

much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic...

Women's Voices on Africa, Patricia Romero

This book review is on Women's Voice on Africa: A Century of Travel Writing, which is edited by Patricia Romero. This text offers ...

"Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin

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