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

population of the resort is almost entirely Creole, so Edna is immersed in a culture in which she feels like a stranger, one that ...

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

was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she coul...

This essay consists of eleven pages in which differences and similarities between the Great Awakenings of the eighteenth and ninet...

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

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

This paper considers how since the nineteenth century women have contributed to the labor movement and the workforce with African ...

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

In five pages this paper discusses how women's sexuality is represented in this nineteenth century novel and then contrasts it to ...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

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...

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

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...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

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

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, ...

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...

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...

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

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...

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

an adulterous tryst that ends up happily for everyone connected with it. It is beautiful, charming and - although it sounds strang...