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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...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

(Chopin Chapter VII). She then meets Robert and her life takes a powerful turn. Not only does she engage in a very passionate a...

In five pages this research paper examines how Chopin carefully crafted protagonist Edna Pontellier to be the central focus of her...

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

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

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

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

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

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 ...

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

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

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

In seven pages Chopin's work is examined in terms of its criticism and then relates these criticisms to specific portions of the n...

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

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....

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...

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

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

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...