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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...

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...

On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

their lives and they were willing to offer such gifts to others, symbolic of their natural existence and nature as giving people....

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

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

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

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

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

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

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

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

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

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...

for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...

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

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

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 ...

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

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

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

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

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...