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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...

In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...

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

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

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...

Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...

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...

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

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

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

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

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

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

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...

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

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

fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...

honesty, no such thing for anyone. She seeks happiness in many avenues of pursuit but she may well be unrealistic in all she pursu...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

yo like. Ill be home tonight." The screen door made a little snick as it swung closed, and she was alone. She pulled the gown back...

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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