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Women's Emotions in the Works of Kate Chopin

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

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...

Women, Heart Disease, and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

Nadine Gordimer vs. Kate Chopin, Two Works

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

Women and Men in American Literature

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

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 ...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin and Freedom from Love

the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...

Kate Chopin and Raymond Carver on Love

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

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...

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...

Women's Roles in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

Rousseau's Sexual Equality in Our Society and its Impact

In twenty one pages a dissertation on mankind's inequality is included with this topic on the social impact of Rousseau's sexual e...

Analyzing 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

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...

At Fault by Kate Chopin

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

Women and Gender Roles in Literature

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

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...

Human Nature and Conflict in 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

In five pages this paper discusses human nature and the conflict that exists between social expectations and human needs within th...

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 -...

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 ...

'The Storm' by Kate Chopin and Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how Kate Chopin portrayed female sexuality in her short story 'The Storm.' There are no other ...

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...

Flower Symbolism and Imagery in 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

This essay consisting of two pages examines the symbolic representation of flowers within the context of this short story by Kate ...

Edna Characterization in The Awakening by Kate Chopin III

In two pages this paper discusses the character's true self understanding and how it evolves throughout the course of the novella ...

Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In eight pages this paper considers how Kate Chopin portrayed the evolving role of women in her protagonist Edna Pontellier in The...

Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans' Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper discusses the theme of women's subjugation and how it impacts upon the relationships portrayed in The Awak...

Edna Pontellier's Importance to The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In five pages the significance of Edna to the novella by Kate Chopin and how she symbolically represents Victorian women's desire ...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

Literature and Themes of Power and Race

In five pages this paper considers power and race as they are portrayed in the short stories 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin, 'Bat...