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The Awakening
Kate Chopin's The Awakening is the text from the fin de siecle (end of the century, namely the nineteenth century) era of American literature that depicts a character's resistance to the...
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The Awakening
The sea is an important symbol in Chopin's The Awakening. This phrase "the voice of the sea speaks to the soul" is repeated in this exact or a related form multiple times in the novel, and there is...
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The Awakening
Masculinity is treated as something that is somewhat fragile, especially in the face of an empowered woman. In Grand Isle, when Edna does not leap from her sleep to listen to Leonce's tales of the...
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The Awakening
You ask what a literary foil is, which characters serve as foils in the text, and what their relationships with Edna might illuminate. To begin, a foil is a character who possesses traits that...
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The Awakening
Describe the novel's settings, and explain the significance of each. The Awakening begins at an enchanting seaside resort, where upper-class families are vacationing. Opening the novel with this...
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The Awakening
To create a literary three by three for The Awakening by Kate Chopin, one must first consider the essence of each part of the novel. The beginning establishes Edna Pontellier as a bored wife and...
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The Awakening
I will provide a few words and phrases from each passage that have strong connotations—that is, the suggestions of meaning beyond the primary meaning of a word. In the first passage, there is...
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The Awakening is most certainly a feminist novel, or at least a "protofeminist" novel since the book predates both the word and concept of feminism. It presents a society, the Creoles, who live in...
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The Awakening
The Awakening is told from a third-person omniscient point of view. It is tempting to say that it is limited omniscient because the narrator spends so much time detailing Edna's thoughts and...
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The Awakening
Mademoiselle Reisz likes Edna, as she feels that Edna is the only one to truly appreciate her musical talent. There is something about Edna, her honest emotionality perhaps, that sets her apart...
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The Awakening
Both of these stories take place right around the same time period: the very end of the nineteenth century. Both texts have a female protagonist who is very much at the mercy of her society and her...
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The Awakening
Kate Chopin's The Awakening was incredibly subversive and controversial upon its release, in part because of the novel's pointed critique of restrictive gender norms. Chopin uses the novel's tragic...
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The Awakening
In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, her protagonist, Edna goes through many different awakenings. In the beginning of the story, she experiences feelings that she cannot quite understand or...
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The Awakening
A character with as many complexities as Edna Pontellier would suffice as a focal point in a feminist analysis of the novel The Awakening. Having Edna as your central point of analysis, you can...
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The Awakening
I contend that Kate Chopin absolutely admires and sympathizes with Edna Pontellier, the ill-fated protagonist of Chopin's famous The Awakening. First, it should be noted that Chopin's works often...
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The Awakening
In Kate Chopin's The Awakening, there is no way to know for certain how the author feels about her character. As Edna goes through her journey of self-discovery, she changes, but ultimately winds...
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The Awakening
In Kate Chopin's The Awakening, the story takes place in two settings: New Orleans and Grand Isle. She set the action in New Orleans because she was a Louisiana writer and New Orleans was an ideal...
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The Awakening
"The Awakening" is an excellent example of how "dangerous" and "subversive" good literature is. Due to its overtly feminist notions, it was widely condemned by literary critics upon its release in...
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The Awakening
In Kate Chopin's The Awakening, the action of the story takes place in New Orleans and Grand Isle. The story opens with Edna in Grand Isle, which was a resort town about an hour outside of New...
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The Awakening
In Kate Chopin's The Awakening, her protagonist, Edna, experiences an increasing awareness that she is not happy, although she is not certain why. When she finally does realize that she does not...
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The Awakening
Edna from Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening is generally considered to have been modeled on Emma of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, the story of a married woman bored with a respectable...
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The Awakening
When, in Kate Chopin’s 1899 short story The Awakening, Edna Pontellier declares in Chapter 36 that she is “. . . no longer one of Mr. Pontellier’s possessions to dispose of or not . . .,”...
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The Awakening
By the end of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna makes some life-changing discoveries and has learned what to do to be free. She learns that she wants to be valued for more than being a good wife...
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The Awakening
This reflects rather poorly on Edna as a mother. Her children appear to her here not just as encumbrances but as 'antagonists' actively opposing her, indeed oppressing her. The fact that she wants...
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The Awakening
The novelThe Awakeningtreats the topic of self-realization and self-awareness through the point of view of a woman who, after marriage and children, is just now realizing her actual physical needs...
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The Awakening
The setting of chapter thirty of Kate Chopin's The Awakening is, indeed, a lavish and glorious dinner party. It is a celebration, and everything should have been as grand and as satisfying as she...
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The Awakening
Mademoiselle Reisz is a key character in Kate Chopin'sThe Awakening. She represents two contrasting models of womanhood in the novel. The other model, that of the "mother-woman," is represented by...
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The Awakening
One of the first lengthy descriptions of Alcee Arobin in Kate Chopin's short novel The Awakening appears in Chapter 25 and reads as follows (with key words placed in bold): He was a familiar...
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The Awakening
In this scene, when Leonce and Edna meet at dinner, they do not appear to be close at all. It becomes clear that they have very different priorities and interests. Leonce seems overwhelmingly...
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Adèle Ratignolle is what Léonce Pontellier calls a "mother-woman" in The Awakening by Kate Chopin. He describes all mother-women this way: It was easy to know them, fluttering about with...
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The Awakening
The concept of "mother-woman" is found in chapter four of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. This phrase is used by Léonce Pontellier to describe the woman his wife, Edna, is not. For example, when one...
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When Edna learns finally to swim she gains great confidence in herself, her own 'powers' and 'strength': A feeling of exultation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been...
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The Awakening
Robert is one of the primary characters in The Awakening by Kate Chopin, and he is best known for being a "summer lover." We learn his history in chapter five of the novel, and we learn two very...
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The Awakening
Edna Pontellier, the protagonist of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, is married to Léonce Pontellier and has two kids with him. Léonce is a rich businessman who makes enough money for his...
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The Awakening
Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" is, in many ways, a social commentary as well as a novel. Using literary techniques such as juxtaposition, symbolism and metaphor, it depicts life for women in the...
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The Awakening
This idea is presented in Chopin's novel through the central character of Edna, who feels the "deeper tragedy" of her life that she is forced to bear as a woman, and rebels against it, determining...
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The Awakening
The general import of the theme of Garson's The Electronic Sweatshop is that computers are being used to replace the decision making and analytical processes and activities of managers and high...
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The Awakening
Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening certainly suggests that women, even within the historical context of the story, can opt to defy the status quo and the social expectation bestowed upon them. Edna...
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The Awakening
In The Awakening the theme of individuality is brought up through the discoveries that Edna Pontellier encounters along the way of trying to find herself as a person and, most importantly, as a...
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The role of the community is to enforce conformity to societal norms and expectations. This is of course what everybody acts to do when Edna makes worrying moves towards behaviour that falls so...
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The Awakening
The story of “The Awakening” is the story of the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, ‘awakening’ to a greater sense of personal freedom. Much of this process is cast in terms of the gender roles...
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The Awakening
Edna Pontellier's awakening to a greater sense of personal freedom seems to take great strides in her encounters with other people who model or demonstrate to her that freedom in their own...
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The Awakening
Published in 1899, "The Awakening" utilizes the dominant realistic style of its era of American writing. Realism dictates that the objects of the piece (characters, setting, events, etc.) be...
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The Awakening
There is a massive change in Edna from the beginning of this story compared with the end. It is important to recognise that the start of the story commences with an image of a parrot trapped in a...
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The Awakening
This is a complex question to answer. On the one hand, the story ends with the suicide of its protagonist. In addition, arguably, Edna kills herself because she had no other option. When Robert...
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The Awakening
The Creole culture that Edna finds herself a part of at the beginning of the story is one that she struggles to fit into. The people she is with live their life in a communal way, so much so that...
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The Awakening
Both of these texts are very similar in that they depict a strong female character who determines to live life as they want to, irrespective of social conventions and the norms and values of the...
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The Awakening
This question seems to infer that Edna committed suicide because she recognised she was not able to give her children what they needed. This text abounds with images of children that reinforce both...
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Culture and the environment play a massively important role in this novel. The story is about one woman's brave battle against the social restrictions that society has created for women, especially...
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The Awakening
The true antagonist that stands in the way of Edna Pontellier's bid for independence and her quest to discover herself and fashion her own identity as she wills it to be is society and the way that...
