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    groups‚ including Lutherans‚ Catholics‚ Jews‚ Congregationalists‚ and Quakers in Pennsylvania. During the Great Awakening of the 1730s‚ the influence of older forms of Protestantism‚ especially Calvinism‚ increased dramatically throughout both regions. Until 1740‚ religion mainly united the New England region‚ while it mostly divided the mid-Atlantic region until the first Great Awakening. New England was founded by a group of Puritan Congregationalists who were originally from England‚ but who had

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    characters. Within the two stories The Awakening and Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ the author has sympathy for one of the characters but not the other. The two stories both have main characters that struggle with their own existence in life‚ but in The Awakening the author had more sympathy for Edna. In Their Eyes Were Watching God the author tends to be non-sympathetic toward all the male characters except for Edna’s third husband‚ Tea Cake. In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ the character Edna

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    Ontario: Joshua Press‚ 2000. Ninde‚ Edward S. George Whitefield: Prophet-Preacher. New York: Abingdon Press‚ 1924. Pollock‚ John. George Whitefield and the Great Awakening. Garden City‚ NY: Doubleday & Company‚ 1972. Short‚ Ruth G. George Whitefield‚ Trumpet of the Lord. Washington‚ D.C.: Review and Herald‚ 1979. Tracy‚ Joseph. The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield. Boston: Charles Tappan‚ 1845. Tyerman‚ Luke. The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield:

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    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God             Jonathan Edwards’s speech "Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God" was given to a group of puritans in 1741. In this time in the American colonies the citizens were becoming more and more distant from the church so Edwards tried to change that with a new kind of sermon. As the speech was given Edwards spoke in a very serious manner‚ he delivered it as if were a final warning to the puritans. This speech was Edwards attempt at waking up the puritans;

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    In 1898 Kate Chopin wrote a novel titled The Awakening that took place in a Louisiana setting. The main character Edna experiences an awakening physically and emotionally. The Awakening is about a woman who goes through many different stages to reach her goal of freedom. Through the stages she learns that even though she has gained some freedom she will not ever truly be free. The ending of Chopin’s novel is ambiguous and leaves the reader to make their own conclusion as to whether Edna committed

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    The novels Madame Bovary written in 1986 by Gustave Flaubert and The Awakening written in 1899 by Kate Chopin are strikingly similar. The similarities are so stark that many question if Madame Bovary served as a template for Kate Chopin when she wrote The Awakening. A large majority of the similarities in the novels revolves around the two main characters in the respective novels‚ Edna Pontellier in The Awakening and Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary. These women both experience unique lives that differ

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    The Awakening: Critical Perspective SOU: English 1002 Comp. II/ Literature The Awakening: Psychoanalytical Perspective The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a powerful novel that has been widely viewed the most by literally scholar critics from a psychoanalytical perspective. Although‚ The Awakening was suppose to be a romantic novel‚ it left alot disparity‚ unexplained situations‚ and inferred questions. Due to this many critics became more enthralled on examining the characters in the novel

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    of adultery. Hester‚ the main character‚ slept with another man‚ thus having a child with him while she was already married. The Awakening is novel that is based on selfhood and feminism. Edna does not love her husband the way that he loves her‚ so she gains feelings for several other men. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ and Kate Chopin’s‚ The Awakening‚ both have similar motifs‚ yet differentiate in many ways‚ like the actions of Hester and Edna‚ symbolism in each novel‚ and how

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    In her novel‚ “The Awakening‚” Kate Chopin‚ a feminist author‚ examines the gender roles‚ and social and moral attitudes of the late nineteenth century in order to contest to these through the protagonist of her novel‚ Edna Pontellier. By utilizing a character such as Edna who is considered to act out in this time period daring to leave her husband‚ in addition to expressing her sexual desires‚ Chopin expresses the awakenings Edna has that ultimately go against the traditionalist society she lives

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    The Personal Awakening Cycle of Edna Pontellier On the surface Edna seems to have it all‚ the perfect life as it would be perceived by society. She has two children and a doctor for a husband. However‚ Edna doesn’t feel as if this completes her; instead‚ she enters a phase of self-discovery and a sense of finding passion again. Edna is trying to break traditional ties that claim that she should be a good mother-woman. This ultimately leads to her awakening or freedom from the life that she believes

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