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Kate Chopin
Muckraking is considered investigative writing meant to expose social ills or corporate and political corruption. In her short story "Odalie Misses Mass," Kate Chopin exposes some of the social...
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Kate Chopin
In "Odalie Misses Mass," the main character, Odalie, is a young white girl who goes to visit her an older black woman named Aunt Pinky. At first, Odalie says and does many things that could be...
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Kate Chopin
To answer your question, Kate Chopin may have written Odalie Misses Mass as a literary experiment. Chopin wrote in the 19th century, when stories about female friendships were rare. In fact,...
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Kate Chopin
In Chopin's short story "At the 'Cadian Ball," Bruce, the manservant of the Laballières, tells Mademoiselle Clarisse that Alceé Laballière has gone to the Cajun (Acadian) ball. He explains that...
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Kate Chopin
The theme of "Ripe Figs" is that human maturity is related to the seasons of the year, a process that cannot be hastened. In Kate Chopin's story, the young character Babette wants to go to Bayou...
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Kate Chopin
In both "At the Cadian Ball" and "The Other Two," we meet women who arrange, manage, and control their men. They are self-possessed people who know how to get what they want. A more negative...
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Kate Chopin
[ While Enotes educators do not compose essays, we are glad to assist with ideas as to the composition of comparison/contrast. ] Certainly, Katherine Mansfield's short story named after a Chopin...
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The Story of an Hour
After Mrs. Mallard first learns of her husband's death (a false report), She wept at once, with sudden wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went...
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The Story of an Hour
In "The Story of an Hour," exposition provides us with the characters, the setting, the narrative frame, but its main purpose is to lead the reader away from the evolution in Mrs. Mallard. When we...
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Kate Chopin
Like previously stated, the loss of freedom due to marriage, and the existence of the self-assertive woman despite of social limitation are, indeed, themes in the story. However, upon performing a...
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The Storm
In making comparisons and pointing out differences between two narratives, it is important to establish what it is that is being compared and contrasted. For instance, you may wish to analyze the...
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Kate Chopin
The key theme in this short story is a theme that is explored in many of Chopin's works, which is the theme of marriage and woman's role within it. What leads Athenaise to reject her husband and...
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The Yellow Wallpaper
In both short stories, the feminist perspective is at the core of each story. The criticism is found at the way in which each woman is controlled by the male-dominated society in which each is a...
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The Awakening
I think that a really interesting comparison can take place between Edna and Emma Bovary. Chopin and Flaubert create two distinct women with marked views concerning emotional relationships. Both...
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The Awakening
I think that the best function of flashbacks operate in the final scene of the novel. Edna's entire life had been one in which she was "asleep," waiting to be "awakened." The flashbacks fit into...
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Kate Chopin
I think that the basic idea of Chopin's work is to express what it means to be a woman. Writing from the age of 37, Chopin is able to bring out the unique dynamics and conditions that govern being...
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The Storm
The sentiments of love are examined in a unique and different perspective in Chopin's work. Love's sentiments are shown to be able to coexist, living on different planes and not colliding with one...
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The Story of an Hour
Chopin's story is fairly complex enough that it does not assign quick blame for the intricacies of marriage and emotional nuances between men and women, husbands and wives. I think that Chopin is...
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The Story of an Hour
I tend to think that the power of Chopin's narrative style is in full bloom when Louise goes to her room and closes the door. Prior to that, the narration had been standard and formal, almost to...
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Kate Chopin
I think that any potential answer to this question is going to be larger than the space here will allow. Chopin's understanding of women's identity and, basically what it means, to be a woman is...
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Kate Chopin
The feminist approach to literature, which began in the US during the 1960s as women were seeking greater standing in the world, primarily deals with the supposition that men have dominated all...
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Kate Chopin
Well, I suppose this question depends very much on who you side with when you think about the characters in this short story. The protagonist is the character who is trying to achieve something and...
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Kate Chopin
This is a very good approach to Kate Chopin. When her husband died, he left her with six children and substantial debts in a period in which women had few avenues open to earn money. Her career as...
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Kate Chopin
First, you might start by examining Chopin' Awakening in relation to Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Many critics consider The Awakening a version of Flaubert transposed to New Orleans. Next, you might...
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Kate Chopin
Mrs. Mallard lived in a society that, presumably, gave very little opportunities to women to succeed on their own. Moreover, she was ill and possibly unable to support herself independently, even...
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Kate Chopin
I think that in the two stories specified, Chopin views marriage as an institution that inhibits individual desires, specifically those of women. Calixta and Louise Mallard are both repressed, to...
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Kate Chopin
This is an excellent short short story by one of the best short story writers ever, in my opinion, and if we want to consider symbolism, one way to do it would be to consider the ripe figs of the...
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Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin's short story, "A Respectable Woman," has several themes, to be expected from an author with such strong female protagonists. However, the story may also demonstrate the universal truth...
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Kate Chopin
Unfortunately I had to edit your question to focus on just one question. You are not allowed to ask multiple questions. You have picked a rather intriguing story to focus on. I think "Ripe Figs" is...
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Kate Chopin
I think that one can find a couple of links between both of Chopin's short stories. The depiction of women being able to act on their autonomy or consider a life where this freedom is activated is...
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Kate Chopin
This story by Kate Chopin deals with issues of race, family, and racial stereotypes with minor references to religion. The reaction of a mother to her child is repeated in three different ways. The...
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Kate Chopin
The feeling I get when I read this short story is one of mystery. The author sets the stage for this right from the very beginning when she describes the locket as some sort of good luck charm....
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Kate Chopin
The Kate Chopin story "A Night in Arcadie" opens with binary opposition representing binary system. Binary opposition (BO) is used in contemporary literary criticism by structuralist,...
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Kate Chopin
Chopin’s stories often depict women who are trapped by gender role expectations and pressured to conform to societal norms. In these instances, all three characters - Calixta (“The Storm”),...
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Kate Chopin
There are only three characters in this story; Brantain, Harvy and Nathalie. Natahlie is being courted by the rich Mr. Brantain. They are sitting together when Mr. Harvy comes in a plants a big...
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Kate Chopin
Many of Kate Chopin's short stories deal with the experiences of women in a culture dominated by men. So it is with this story. A young woman, Nattie, is intent on making a match for herself with a...
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Kate Chopin
Concerning your plans to analyze Kate Chopin from the feminist point of view/feminist literary theory, it is every critic's goal to discover and relate something new. It is a particularly...
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Kate Chopin
The author used several plays on word that succintly imply the matters at hand. The first thing we see is her description of the main character's condition as "heart trouble"- what sort of trouble...
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Kate Chopin
This short story by Kate Chopin features the characters Athenaise, who has been recently married to Cazeau, her brother, called Monteclin and another man called Gouvernail. The story starts with...
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Kate Chopin
I'll be happy to provide whatever help I can (feel free to "message" me). Let me say for now that there are three things that I always try to do when beginning to develop a research project on a...
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Kate Chopin
Many of Chopin's stories are highly psychological. In my opinion, this is no better seen in the short story, "The Story of an Hour." Mrs. Mallard's extreme emotional roller coaster upon hearing...
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Kate Chopin
Settings play a key role in establishing the characters of this terrific short story all about the way that a woman is able to manipulate her way into a wealthy marriage, in spite of an incident...
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Kate Chopin
In "The Storm", Kate Chopin's main character Calixta lacks the understanding of what marriage is in terms of sexuality. She lives life as it is expected of her, and the relationship in her marital...
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Kate Chopin
In addition to the ideas raised earlier, Chopin examined the changing perceptions of women towards their social roles in her short story, "The Story of an Hour." Chopin takes the notion of a...
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Kate Chopin
One language technique that Chopin uses is imagry. This is where you use the 5 senses to describe a scene, helping it to seem more vibrant and alive. After Louise has heard the news of her...
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Kate Chopin
"Beyond the Bayou" by Kate Chopin features a black woman called Jacqueline, but who is known as "La Folle" (Crazy Woman in French) because of the way that she has drawn "an imaginary line" through...
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Kate Chopin
Please be more specific. What is your question? Your observation? Your conundrum?
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Kate Chopin
The city in which "A Pair of Silk Stockings" is set is unnamed; however it is large enough to have a department store, theatre, and a trolley car. In the 1890s this could easily be New Orleans...
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Kate Chopin
Lousiana is the setting for "The Storm" by Kate Chopin. (See the sources cited below.)Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was an intelligent and witty debutante who traveled to Europe and then...