Awakening Self-Discovery Essay

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    Gilbertson 1 Alex Gilbertson T. Ramsey English 30B March 10, 2015 Literary Analysis: Edna Pontellier Since it’s controversial debut in 1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin has captivated and enthralled audiences over the years. Due to its mature content discussing female sexual desires, the novel was first regarded as immoral and corrupt; therefore, many critics gave harsh reviews and criticized Chopin, causing her to never be able to publish another novel. Additionally, her novel centered around

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    Personal Demoralization in The Awakening To demoralize someone is to dishearten or discourage them and cause them to lose hope. Kate Chopin uses words like “depressed” (56), “hopeless” (56) and “despondency” (p115) to describe Edna Pontellier, the heroine, in The Awakening. Coupling this description with Edna taking her life at the end of the novel and Chopin’s own inferred demoralization, due to the universal aversion to The Awakening, the natural conclusion is that it is a work of “great personal

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    Oscar Wilde's assertion that disobedience is fundamental to human progress finds ample validation within Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," where the characters' acts of disobedience are depicted as catalysts for personal growth, moral awakening, and societal change. In "The Things They Carried," disobedience emerges as a central theme, serving as a vehicle for challenging norms, confronting injustice, and catalyzing transformation. One of the most compelling instances of disobedience is illustrated

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    Kate Chopin's, The Awakening, utilizes symbols and character relationships to display how Edna, the protagonist, strives to find herself. This desire leads to conflict as it interferes with Edna's marriage, state, and overall self-destruction in the novel. Constantly at war with these issues, Edna loses focus geared towards piecing together her self-identity. One line from The Awakening is significant in delivering Chopin's message of having the courage to defy society and its established conventions

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    The Awakening is set in 1899, a time when the Industrial Revolution and the women's movement were just beginning , conversely, still overshadowed by the attitudes of society in the 19th century. Kate Chopin's idea that a woman’s needs were important was somewhat radical, especially since women were not considered to be independent, and women’s rights were still being fought for. Edna's major conflict is her need for independence and personal fulfillment while still trying to conform to her traditional

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    Freudian Psychoanalysis and the Awakening Sigmund Freud, the preeminent, 19th century, European neurologist and psychologist, designed a theory he labelled “psychoanalysis,” a theory which would transcend all borders and integrate itself deeply into many facets of society. In fact, an American named Kate Chopin, wrote a book entitled The Awakening, which was published at the turn of the 19th century, in which this theory played an integral role in expressing the complexity, relevance, and growth

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    Evolution of Janie in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" intricately weaves a tale of personal growth, self-discovery, and empowerment through the character of Janie Crawford. As the protagonist navigates her journey, she undergoes a profound transformation from a woman bound by societal expectations to a self-actualized individual forging her own path in search of love, identity, and fulfillment. Janie's evolution is most evident in her reflections on her

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    see you for who you are. Throughout The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, this is exactly the journey the reader is taken on. Through the development of the main character, Edna Pontellier, we see the journey of finding yourself and discovering who you truly are. This is a hard journey to take a reader on, a hard subject to fully grasp. Sandra M. Gilbert talks about this in her essay, The Second Coming of Aphrodite. She writes about how Chopin's book, The Awakening, has been shunned and banned all over,

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    about almost have a kinship with themselves bringing out certain personality traits not seen written about women before. From these traits a voice emerges in literature that has been hidden from the public view. This new true voice of female self-discovery finally comes out for the public to see in

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    T he Acts of Peter and the letter to Theodore by Clement of Alexandria, plainly demonstrates an ongoing battle within early Christian development and its teachings. Peter’s focus on the devil’s sexual involvement with humanity and how lust had influenced and damaged people’s sexual awareness from the beginning of time, coincides completely with Jesus’ hostility against Satan. Although, outwardly the church condemned Peter’s teaching of ‘celibacy for everyone;’ nevertheless the sanctified reality

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