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    Women In The Awakening

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    The Awakening is set at the end of the 19th century, when women were expected to marry, have children, and take care of their household. A “good” wife’s job was devoting her life to tending to her husband and children while the husband worked a job that brought in money for the family. In the very beginning of the story, it is clear that Edna isn’t devoted to her children the way a mother in the late 1800s was expected to be. Her husband Léonce seems to care more about their two boys than she does

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    Women In The Awakening

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    In The Awakening, Mrs. Pontellier intellectually discovers the need to remain congruous with her identity, despite the increasing pressure to conform to society’s morals and ethics. During the end of the 19th century, the roles of mothers and women were highly intertwined to the point that a women’s identity was dependent entirely on her status as a mother Constrained by societal expectations, mother women such as Adele Ratignolle idolise their children and husband, feeling it necessary to “flutter

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    Women In The Awakening

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    Anderson, an author, says “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives them.” Edna Pontellier, protagonist of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, discovers her own strength gradually and experiences many obstacles along the way. One of the main obstacles she faces is the conditioned notion that women are inferior to men. While the men are not openly chauvinistic towards women, a deep rooted superior mentality exists within them

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    In the 1899 novella, The Awakening, Kate Chopin illustrates the oppression imposed on women in the Victorian Era (1837-1901). The protagonist in the novella, Edna Pontellier, reflects the progressive women of the late 1800’s who began to interrogate their traditional roles in society. In contrast to customary women, such as Adele Ratignolle who is the embodiment of the ideal mother and wife in The Awakening, Edna acknowledges her sexuality and individual identity. However, Edna realizes that her

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    What is the purpose of women? How are they supposed to act? Are they fragile creatures that need constant guidance and attention, or are they something more? In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, these were the types of questions that needed answers. Published when the world was a more conventional and conservative place, The Awakening spurred controversy by brazenly displaying scandalous ideas. Though it shook up society, the novel is full of meaning and emphasizes the importance of improving the woman’s’

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    characterizes a rebellious, yet trapped main character in Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening. Chopin creates a main character similar to herself: a rebellious young woman who does not agree with society. In the late Nineteenth Century, The Awakening was not well perceived by it's readers because Edna is countering the culture's expectations of women in order to relieve herself from the shackles holding her and other women back from freedom. Edna’s ring symbolizes a shackle keeping her from escaping

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    Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening in the opening chapter provides the argument for women's entrapment in roles that society has forced upon them. Chopin was not just trying to write an entertaining story but trying to convey arguments against these social injustices. Women are like these birds trapped in these cages unable to free themselves from these imposed roles by society. Chopin opens her novel with the a parrot in a cage repeating the same phrase over and over. The parrot is pretty

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    Chopin endorses this statement in her writing The Awakening. She depicts a character Alcee Arobin as well-known most of all for his seduction of married women. He exploits and takes advantage of women sexually. He often uses sweet sexy words, such as, “I only live when I am near you,” (Chopin 103) to allure women for achieving his “sexual desire”. He is sensuous and narcotic through his manners, such as when he looks at Edna and touches his lips upon Edna’s hand. Alcee strokes her hair and face

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    oppression of women. As women gained more power through education in society, this led to the start of a more balanced distribution of power. The theme of oppression of women became a common subject for female authors, since the change in attitudes about women was very slow to occur. Virginia Woolf in the extended essay, A Room of One’s Own, theorizes that in order for a woman to be successful “a woman must have money and a room of her own,”(Woolf 4). Woolf uses this thesis to explain why most women throughout

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    The lifestyle of nineteenth century women is portrayed in both The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. These texts portray the main female character as independent, inspiring individuals who break societal norms which confine them to their marriage and female expectations. However, they also contain characters who fit the stereotypical role of women during this era. This offers a contrast which highlights the rebellion and courage that the protagonists in the stories posses

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