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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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    taking care of the children‚ and satisfying her husband’s needs. In The Awakening‚ Kate Chopin wrote about the life of a grown woman‚ Edna Pontellier‚ who slowly discovered herself and independence. She used aspects of her personal life to portray Edna Montpellier’s thoughts and feelings‚ in great detail‚ to express the personality of an independent woman. As a result of Chopin’s descriptive imagery and diction in The Awakening‚ she was denounced by religious groups‚ critics‚ and society. The judgmental

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    The Awakening by Kate Chopin "She perceived that her will had blazed up‚ stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that before‚ and if she had submitted to his command. Of course she had; she remembered that she had. But she could not realize why or how she should have yielded‚ feeling as she then did." (Chopin‚ 31) In Chapter XI in The Awakening‚ by Kate Chopin‚ Edna was resting outside

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    Symbols and Settings in The Awakening and White Oleander Kate Chopin’s classic The Awakening and Janet Fitch’s modern tale of White Oleander‚ though set many years apart‚ share some of the same elements of fiction. Each possesses several key settings that are both recurring and prominent places in the stories. Much of the story takes place within these settings‚ making it easy for the audience to pick up on their distinction. Both stories also contain numerous symbols that help to convey the

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    In a novel or play‚ some of the most significant events are mental or psychological. These events may lead to awakenings‚ discoveries‚ or changes in consciousness. In Kate Chopin’s‚ The Awakening‚ she explores the internal events in Edna Pontellier’s life to give the sense of excitement‚ suspense‚ and climax usually associated with external action. Chopin reveals the excitement through Edna’s affairs. Edna and Robert fall in love‚ which goes against her marriage with Léonce. Not only is it going

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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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    COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN DR. JOSE RIZAL AND PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON A Research Study Presented to Ma’am Angeline Valdez of the Institute of Engineering‚ Information and Applied Technology Kalinga-Apayao State College In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY By: Walid D. Barambangan September 10‚ 2013 I. Introduction Life of other people is great way of learning new good things in life especially the life of other heroes

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