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

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

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

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

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women 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...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

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...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

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 ...

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...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

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...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

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

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

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

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

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 ...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

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

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