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    is said that Chopin’s writing style is more like the writers in the twentieth century because unlike her contemporaries, she wrote in a direct and understated style and she suggest women’s independence and freedom which make her one of the first feminist writers though that was not her intention. Besides, Chopin employs lots of foreshadowing and symbolism and irony with masterful skill and she was flexibility in the use of language. “The Story of an Hour” was published in 1894 which is very short

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    According to Chopin’s official website published by the Kate Chopin International Society in which biographers and editors detail information of the authors life, works, and commonly asked questions, Chopin was 49 years old at the time that The Awakening was published. This novel was originally titled A Solitary Soul, but was changed just prior to publication. Though today this novel is heavily studied and appreciated by scholars and critics alike, this positive outlook on Chopin’s deeply symbolic

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    In “The Awakening”, Kate Chopin demonstrates Edna’s early mother who experiences a melodramatic phase of transformation that she “awakens” to the boundaries of her old-style society and growing with freedom. Then, we look at Edna Pontellier awake in circumstances that have metaphorical awakenings to a new modern woman with sexual experiences. Edna fights off the common and ordinary structures of maternity that force her to be well-defined by her designation as spouse of Leonce Pontellier and mother

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    developing narratives which notably resisted the customary feminist roles in the home. Each of these narratives entails a female protagonist who is looking to escape and attain freedom. With many critics debating about their source of dissatisfaction, the final resort, women refusing to conform to the role of a devoted wife, provided authoritative and subversive texts to the advice literature that was popularized at the turn of the century. The Awakening novel by Kate Chopin was first unveiled in 1899, only

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    Theme Of The Awakening

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    Analayzing the novel “The awakening” , the protagonist can be seen in different stages of her life: as a wife, as an artist, as a mother and as a woman. From the beginning, the author gives a fair description of Edna: “She was an American woman, with a smal infusion of French which seemed to have been lost in dilution.” (Chopin, The awakening, pg. 9). As a wife she seems not take care of the households as her husband expect to. He also believes that she does not take good care of their children

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    The Awakening by Kate Chopin Essay

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    The Awakening by Kate Chopin Kate Chopin is one of the first female writers to address female issues, primarily sexuality. Chopin declares that women are capable of overt sexuality in which they explore and enjoy their sexuality. Chopin shows that her women are capable of loving more than one man at a time. They are not only attractive but sexually attracted (Ziff 148). Two of Chopin’s stories that reflect this attitude of sexuality are The Awakening and one of her short stories “The Storm”

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    In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the character Edna struggles with her life as she feels trapped and oppressed. Originating in the separation from her home, Chopin weaves Edna’s oppression throughout the story to create as sense of hopelessness in the character; eventually resulting in her suicide. Edward Said defines exile as “the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Edna, the protagonist

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    book The Awakening. The Awakening was based back on the late 1800s about a women who was struggling to find herself in the crazy world that was beginning to rapidly change. Women empowerment was major in the late 1800s due to the women fighting for their rights. Through the novel Edna, the main character, finds herself, tastes independence, and then throws it all away with suicide to go out in peace. The Author Kate Chopin is a very skilled and professional author. Her book The Awakening was published

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    In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, is searching and longing for her true self, and not what a traditional Victorian society believes she should be, which is nothing more or less than a devoted mother and housewife. Chopin incorporates strong symbols to convey Edna’s internal conflict that leads to her ultimate downfall: death by suicidal drowning. The struggle illustrated between conforming to societies expectations of the roles a woman should play and an independent

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    Introduction The author of the book is Kate Chopin, the title is The Awakening and the main focus point of this essay is to talk about Eden’s interaction and relationships with men throughout the novel. It is important to figure out how these relationships affected Edna and her ‘awakening’ and realization of herself. Edna Pontellier is the main character in this reading and her devotion to her family is questioned when her husband Leonce Pontellier starts to make demands that she can not meet. Throughout

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