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The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Power Struggles

feel "normal" she simply goes about her day. There is an air of loneliness, despair and isolation, which would make any individual...

Women's Voices: Kate Chopin and Luisa Valenzuela

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

Exile in Works of American Literature

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

Independence in 3 Works of Literature

his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage" (Chopin 2). Women - wives, rather -...

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 ...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

Summary and Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

or that this story is only a thinly veiled platform for womens suffrage. This story is not just about a womens coming of age or co...

At Fault by Kate Chopin

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

Women and Gender Roles in Literature

This paper examines gender roles in literature in this overview of five pages that discusses how they are represented in The Awake...

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...

Hypothetical Letter to a Mental Patient

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

Themes of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In five pages this paper discusses what is meant by flight symbolism in this thematic analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. T...

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 ...

Failed Marriages in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

Love's Success or Failure in Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

Women's Self Determination in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

but he cant precisely put his finger on the problem either. She is lovely and gracious; she certainly doesnt abuse the children or...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

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...

2 Short Stories on Clashing Religious and Social Values

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans' Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper discusses the theme of women's subjugation and how it impacts upon the relationships portrayed in The Awak...

Edna Pontellier's Importance to The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In five pages the significance of Edna to the novella by Kate Chopin and how she symbolically represents Victorian women's desire ...

Edna Characterization in The Awakening by Kate Chopin III

In two pages this paper discusses the character's true self understanding and how it evolves throughout the course of the novella ...

Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In eight pages this paper considers how Kate Chopin portrayed the evolving role of women in her protagonist Edna Pontellier in The...

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...

Six Short Stories, Summary and Analyses

This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...

Women's Search for Independence in 3 Works: Finding Happiness

This essay discusses 3 works: which are a poem by Gwendolyn Brook, "The Beam Eaters"; a short story by Kate Chopin, "The Story of ...

Views of Women, Chopin, Morrison, Tremblay

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

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...