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    Running Head: “THE AWAKENINGFROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE In Kate Chopin’s novel‚ “The Awakening”‚ Edna finds herself in a society where women were socially confined to be mothers and wives. This novel embodies the struggle of women in the society for independence along with the presence of women struggling to live up to the demands that their strict culture has placed upon them. A part of Edna wants to meet the standards of mother and wife that society has set‚ however her biggest desire

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    Feminist Lens: A Perspective - The Awakening Kristin Miller South University Online   Feminist Lens: A Perspective - The Awakening During the late nineteenth century‚ a woman’s place in society was confined to the reverence of her children and constant submission to her husband. The Awakening‚ by Kate Chopin is a novel about Edna Pontellier whose life was embraced through the frustrations and triumphs as she attempts to cope with the strict cultural demands in which she was confined. This essay

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    The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin‚ first published in 1899 ‚ set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century. The plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women’s issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism

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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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    Ecem ŞEN Film Theory-1035673 ecemsenn@gmail.com The Woman who looks at men from behind her own fingers There has been an undeniable increase in the number of people who argue that how mainstream films can shape or reproduce spectator’s look and position in movies. Mainstream films follow a particular narrative structure and format that shapes how we understand films. The speactator looks at what camera sees or “demonstrates” them. In this case‚ there is a construction and reproduction of

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    Caught in a Wake of Illusions To remain‚ or not to remain: that is the question. In The Awakening‚ a novella by Kate Chopin‚ the main character‚ Edna‚ explores the depth of this question as she awakens from her blind submission to society’s demands. Realizing for the first time in her life that she is trapped in a box culturally deemed appropriate for women‚ she struggles to break free and pursue individuality. In the processes of trying to find herself‚ she sacrifices society’s approval‚ her husband’s

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    “The Awakening” is a novel written in 1899 by Kate Chopin (1850-1904). “The Awakening” is a novel of life in the south and opens in the late 1800’s in Grand Isle near New Orleans. “The Awakening” can be viewed by three different perspectives; psychoanalytical‚ historical‚ and feminist. The historical perspective focuses on the setting of the story; the year and the major events of that time period. For the historical perspective “The Awakening” is set in the Victorian times of the south when Queen

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    choices rather than being labeled and told what to do. Feminist analysis is all about recognizing the different stages of social power that men and women have in political‚ social‚ and in economic views. Authors like Donald Hall have expressed their perspective on feminist analysis and believe that women cannot be able to express themselves and demonstrate the same qualities

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    When I was reading the drama‚ A Doll’s House‚ I could instantly tell that the play would be best analyzed through the feminist perspective. The Feminist perspective centralizes on the actions and identifications of the female characters in a literary work. This perspective is mostly used to analyze the protagonist‚ which is Nora in this play; a pathological liar and manipulator. She acts as though she is innocent when regarding her actions‚ but she isn’t ignorant and knows that what she has committed

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    Ice-Candy-Man: A Feminist Perspective * Summary In Ice-Candy-Man the women characters cannot be easily subjugated. Lenny‚ her Ayah Shanta‚ her mother and Godmother are capable of new roles and responsibilities. It is the second novel by a woman writer dealing with the theme of Partition of India. It is likely to be a more neutral on account of the traumatic event of Partition which caused divisiveness‚ disharmony‚ mutual suspicion‚ hardening. Writer depicts the events overtaking the Partition

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