Daniel's The Awakening

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is the story of a woman who is seeking freedom. Edna Pontellier feels confined in her role as mother and wife and finds freedom in her romantic interest, Robert Lebrun. Although she views Robert as her liberator, he is the ultimate cause of her demise. Edna sees Robert as an image of freedom, which brings her to rebel against her role in society. This pursuit of freedom, however, causes her death. Chopin uses many images to clarify the relationship between Robert and Edna and to show that Robert is the cause of both her freedom and her destruction.

The Great Awakening was a revival of religion in the early American colonies. Some will say that the awakening had negative effects on the colonies, maybe, but overall I believe the Great Awakening had a positive effect and opened the eyes of the colonist, showing them truths of living in the New World and of things that could come for its future. These effects that the Great Awakening had on the early colonies is greatly studied and looked at, because it was what set the ground work for the religious views we have today in our country. Three sources, given to me, telling of the effects that the revival of religion had on early America was quite interesting to me. I found them to be a great insight to the basis of how the revival effected

The humanly gift of imagination is a unique power within that subconsciously is a locomotor to both the body and spirit to a person 's individual Elysium. It goes far and beyond our cognition into an exuberant fantasy molded by our wants and desires, reaching untamed worlds. Turning imagination into realism is denounced as an impossible being, but it 's in fact the awakening to our lucid dreaming. Edna Pontellier is a woman with a heart that soared beyond the horizons into a limitless world, forced into cage by the inevitable way of life. Kate Chopin through the beautifully sculpted novel “The Awakening” condemned Edna with a mindset beyond her years, finding meaning through her unsocial actions shunned by the eyes of others. Edna used her

As the novel progresses, Edna is able to escape from the hands of Leonce Pontellier, and she moves into a small house down the street in which she calls the pigeon house. The symbol of the bird is used here by saying she may be able to release herself from Leonce but she isn’t able to release herself from society, that she if forever trapped. In the end of the novel, before Edna’s tragedy, a bird with a broken wing crashes into the sea. This bird can be connected with the advice that Mademoiselle Reisz told Edna that she needed strong wings to soar. The connection for shadows Edna’s tragedy, and reveals her complete failure to find complete freedom and happiness.

another interesting character in this book, she was a strange but funny women who you couldn’t

In Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”, a mother recalls the life of her first born daughter. She retells the hardships she and her daughter had to go through to make it. The main focus, however, is on the hardships of the daughter, Emily. These hardships, lack of tender love, attention and over abundant strife in Emily’s life, lead to her being unnoticed and somewhat forgotten. In Emily’s late teenage years, comedy became a way for her to standout. As well, comedy could have been a way to cope with her less than ideal childhood. Psychology might be able to answer whether she used comedy to cope or was her gift of comedy a result of personality traits.

In Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, she writes about a woman’s desire to find and live fully within her true self during the 1890s in Louisiana. The woman, Edna Pontellier, is trying to find herself in the masculine society of Louisiana, leading her to cause friction with friends, family and the Creole society. Edna begins to feel a change; she begins to feel like a whole person with wants, interests and desires. She learns that she is not comfortable with being a wife and mother. The imagery of the parrot in the cage in Chopin’s novel is being compared to Edna because it represents Edna’s unspoken feelings and imprisonment. The sense of unspoken feelings and imprisonment of Edna causes her to put her own needs before her family. As Edna finds herself trying to satisfy the Creole society, she begins to feel isolated and confused. Through Edna’s trace of freedom, she begins to undergo a transformation of self, slowly straying away from society, and taking control over her own actions and beliefs. Through obstacles to Edna’s freedom, she learns that she does have control of her own body. The symbolism of the birds and the sea is used to symbolize Edna’s struggle for independence.

As stated by one of the fathers of the First Great Awakening, George Whitefield “True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness for conversion hide behind their own good works. This is the reason that self-righteous people are so angry with gospel preachers, because the gospel does not spare those who will not submit to the righteousness of Jesus Christ!” (AZQuotes.com). The First Great Awakening was a movement away from the Roman Catholic Church which is part of the reformation. It was initially led by George Whitefield, Johnathan Edwards, and Martin Luther who started churches as early as the 1300s. The First Great

The first great awakening was a period of heightened religious activity, primarily in Great Britain and its North American colonies. The first great awakening made religion intensely personal to the average person by creating a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption, along with introspection and a commitment to a new standard of personal morality.

The Great Awakening- was four periods of great religious revival in American religious history. Religious passion happened between 18th century to the 19th century. These "Great Awakenings" was set apart by widespread revivals led by biblical Protestant ministers which resulted to the increase of interest in religion, an extreme sense of judgment and freeing from sins on the part of those affected, a rise in church membership, and the creation of new movements and denominations.

She conveys this point through dry satirical elements, saying, “ She is essential to the male fantasy that even if a guy is boring he deserves a woman who will find him fascinating and perk up his dreary life by forcing him to go skinny-dipping in a stranger’s

The king new he made a mistake signing the law and worried about Daniel all night.

Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind pushed many envelopes when it was first performed in 1906. The play, which is set in pre-World War I Germany in 1890, touched on many controversial topics such as teen sexuality, abuse, rape, homosexuality, suicide, and abortion. Wedekind’s blunt and dramatic use of the caseara in the dialog between characters and in Mortiz’s soliloquy in the resolution as well as the use of expressionism helps further enhance the overall theme of the play. Wedekind shows this in a series of short, frantic scenes that unraveled what lies beneath the surface of the regimented German society at the start of the 20th century and discusses topics that no one wanted to address on a global scale.

People just accept how she lives because she has a strong opinion of herself and is ready to argue it with anyone at anytime. One day, during a meal, Harpo warns Squeak not to laugh because it was bad luck for a woman to laugh. Sofia laughs in his face saying, 'I already had my bad luck. I had enough to keep me laughing for the rest of my life.'; (208). Sofia has no trouble expressing herself at the expense of others, especially men.

Gender roles in comedy are significant in how women and men perceive one another. How a male and female allow others to talk to them is a mutual agreement between dominance and control. According to Deborah Tannen, in But What Do You Mean, “Unfortunately, women and men often have different ideas about what is appropriate, different ways of speaking.” Meaning, when women and men allow another to talk to them about topics that are not usually taken lightly there is a thin line between being truthful and telling a joke. The main subject of the joke and what is actually, “funny” can be mocking or derogatory. The sense of humor in a male and female can be on two different spectrums. Usually, female humor is self-lowering can be seen as