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    Coming into the nineteenth century, women were looked at as feminist. “Feminism,” as we know the term today, was nonexistent in nineteenth-century America (Cruea 187). Feminist describes as someone embracing the beliefs that all people are entitled to freedom and liberty within reason. Gender, sexual orientations, skin color, ethnicity, religion, culture or lifestyle should not be considered as a form of discrimination. Women roles, in the nineteenth century, were to take care of the cooking, cleaning

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    book The Awakening published in 1899. “Kate was born February 08, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri and died on August 22, 1904” (Feminist Writers). “Born as Katherine O’Flaherty and she graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in 1868” (Feminist Writers). “Kate married Oscar Chopin in 1870 and had five sons and one daughter” (Feminist Writers). “Kate wrote fictional novels; her most known novel is “The Awaken” and short stories; her most known short story is called, The Storm” (Feminist Writers)

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    After having the pleasure of reading your literary work, The Awakening, I felt the need to, as any good reader should, offer some literary criticism and my own interpretations of the story. Unhappy and unappreciated in her marriage and seeking various remedies to help her find herself, Edna’s dual identity, “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions,” (Chopin 572) leads her to combat the standards that society has set in place for her. While this is a respectable cause

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    The Awakening: An Emergence of Women’s Rights in the Late Nineteenth Century Kate Chopin’s The Awakening addresses the role of women within society during the late nineteenth century. The novel is set in South Louisiana, a place where tradition and culture also play a vital role in societal expectations. The novel’s protagonist, Edna Pontellier, initially fulfills her position in society as a wife and as a mother while suppressing her urges to live a life of passion and freedom. Edna’s relationship

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    The Awakening: Evaluating The Core Values of the Nineteenth Century In Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, the main protagonist Edna Pontellier exists as the embodiment of the feminist ideas that stand as outliers in the midst of the more traditional nineteenth century beliefs. Set in 1899 near the end of this generation, Chopin’s work explores the shared attitudes of most of the novel’s cast as they respond to Edna’s search for independence and freedom, an action that challenges her conservative

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    After reading The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, I believe the text is feminist. Whether Kate Chopin was deliberately writing for early feminists or not, the book has many early feminist ideas and it is shown through the main characters awakening by being eccentric. The author uses Edna Pontellier as an anti-conventional woman, breaking societal laws that govern her life, in search for individuality in a society that represses her. From a reader’s perspective in the early 1900’s, Edna would be a mentally

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    In the novel, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the central character, Edna Pontellier’s awakening arises throughout her family retreat in Grand Isle where she learns to freely express herself and be open in her behavior and communication. Now as an independent individual she objects to social norms by leaving behind her husband Leónce and has an affair with Robert Lebrun. The relationship between Edna and Robert is alive, conversational, flirty, and she enjoys receiving this infatuated attention from

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    In “Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and the Exploration of Feminine Desire and Expression” Iraj Montashery argues that Edna is the “ultimate feminist.” While some of her actions are feminist, Edna’s childishness and submissiveness of the changes within her suggest that her actions are stemmed more from a need to embrace a repressed part of herself rather than any feminist motives. Edna’s rebelliousness is born of a childishness throughout the novel. Monstashery begins by stating that Edna’s breakoff

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    The Awakening is a Victorian novel written by Kate Chopin in 1899, which is set in Grand Isle and in New Orleans. Unlike many of other Victorian novels, The Awakening presents a very peculiar view that no one dared to even think about during the 19th century: the empowerment of women. Through this novel, Chopin voices out the freedom for women from their domestic restrictions and sexist Victorian gender roles. Surely, this book highly controversial and was even censored at the time, later, it was

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    In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening there is a constant internal struggle within Edna about how she should be living her life. In the novel it is clear that society has a certain destiny for Edna. She is expected to be a wife and mother who must stay at home, care for the children, care for her husband, and maintain the household clean. Throughout the novel we see a shift in Edna beginning to question everything. As well as, not wanting to do what was expected of her and wanting to do what she wanted

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