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This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

page of fax.) Likewise, Teresa de Laurentis argues that Edna, in rejecting the "biological" definition of the feminine gender, al...

Mrs. Mallards husband. She describes the "sudden wild abandonment" (Chopin 394) that Louise Mallard felt upon hearing this news. ...

American women writers exposed in their fiction the link between institutional and sexual exploitation of women and female mutenes...

of the elements made her laugh as she lay in his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch...

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...

studying the nature outside the window, and begins to allow us to see that she is experiencing something far more profound and far...

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

A 5 page essay exploring the book by Kate Chopin. 1 source....

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

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 ...

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

publicly punished for it, while no one ever learns of Ednas adultery. There are those who have their suspicions, but she is carefu...

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

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

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...