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Kate Chopin's Short Story 'The Storm' and Theme of Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...

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 ...

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...

Vulnerability: Chopin and Godwin

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the characters in The Story of an Hour by Kate Choping and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail G...

Comparative Analysis of Kate Chopin’s ‘The Storm’ and ‘The Awakening’

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

Two Short Stories by Jin and Chopin

comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...

Turn of the Century Feminism as Seen in Chopin and Woolf

This paper compares and contrasts two short stories by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf, written around the turn of the Twentieth Ce...

'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 ...

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 ...

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...

Kate Chopin Tackling Taboo and Controversial Subjects in 'The Story of an Hour, 'A Respectable Woman,' and 'Desiree's Baby'

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

Comparison of A Jury of Her Peers and A Respectable Woman

In five pages these Susan Glaspell and Kate Chopin short stories are contrasted and compared in terms of common threads of social ...

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...

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...

Societal Suppression in A Rose for Emily and The Story of an Hour

utterly free. When Emily discovers that her boyfriend is gay, her instant fear of what the community would think of her leads he...

Chopin's Awakening and Smart's By Grand Central Station

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

Development of Edna in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

In six pages the development of Kate Chopin's protagonist Edna is discussed. Three other sources are listed in the bibliography....

Protagonist Analysis of Edna Pontellier in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin

Iin five pages this paper examines Edna before and after marriage, considers her 'awakening' and conflict and also incorporates fe...

Simplicity Masking Complexity in 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

undying life of the world" (Chopin PG). Chopins message of forbidden feminine desire is indicative of the prolific writers...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin and an Evaluation of Minor Female Characters

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 ...

4 Brief Literature Essays

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

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

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

Character Analysis of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening by Kate Chopin II

In four pages this essay discusses Kate Chopin's novella in terms of how the protagonist develops throughout. There are 2 other s...

Ideas of a 'Catch-22' in the Works of Kate Chopin, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway, and Joseph Heller

This paper examines how Joseph Heller's Catch 22 reflects the concepts featured in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Ralph Ellison's In...

Escaping into Nature Through Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

Self Image of Women in the Works of Kate Chopin and Henrik Ibsen

hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

American Literature: Realism

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

Chopin’s Edna and Ibsen’s Nora

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

Toni Morrison’s Sula

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...