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Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Characters of Mademoiselle Reisz and Edna Pontellier

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...

Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

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

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' Analysis and Criticism

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

The Symbolism of the Sea in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

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

Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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...

Marriage and Independence in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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

Baroque, Classical and Romantic/Comparing 3 Works

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

Master of the Rohan Hours

("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...

'The Storm' by Kate Chopin and the Character of Calixta

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

Michael Cunningham's The Hours

housebound in Los Angeles in 1949. Sally has learned that she is pregnant again, and gives herself the time to read Virginia Wool...

Composer Frederic Chopin's Life and Music

falls in love with the young Robert LeBrun and befriends the old pianist Mademoiselle Reisz, whose music arouses in Edna "the very...

Death as a Representation of Failing Marriages

This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the timeless ideal of marriage is not real and how The Dead and The Story of an Hour...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

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...

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...

Zhang, Lahiri/Memoir and Short Story

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

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...

Kate Chopin: Exploring Culture and Identity

themselves aloof until the conditions of their acquiescence are met through achieving an understanding with the men who occupy the...

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...

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...

A Comparison of A Sorrowful Woman amd A Story of an Hour

be there. They, as individuals, come second when they have a husband and a family. Even in todays society where a woman can be suc...

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...

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...

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...

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...