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

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

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

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

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...

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...

believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...

of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...

This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

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

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...

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...

incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...

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...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

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

than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...

In seven pages the ways in which the author develops the theme through character conflict are discussed. There are 3 sources in t...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the author portrays the lacking maternal instincts of protagonist Edna Pontelli...

Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...

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

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...