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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...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...

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

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

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

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 ...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

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

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...

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

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

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 ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

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

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

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

Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...