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A Review of The Awakening

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

Chopin's The Story of an Hour

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

Social and Cultural Influence of 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

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...

A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Controversy and Kate Chopin

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

Themes in The Awakening

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

Chopin’s Awakening

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

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...

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin and its Themes

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...

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...

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

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

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...

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...

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...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

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...

Identity: “The Story of an Hour”

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

THEMES OF INNER CONFLICT IN "THE STORY OF AN HOUR"

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

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

Women's Roles in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

contention that it was in the 1890s when social change would be rampant and that this change would be reflected time and time agai...

The Awakening and Gender Criticism

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