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    Jullian Collins October 28‚ 2011 ENG 212 Entrapment in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is entrapment by social decrees‚ circumstance‚ and desire for personal independence. I enjoyed the plot and the twists and turns throughout the story‚ which I noted that during the time period it was written was categorized by a society which the patriarch is the center and leader of the family. (This is a very long and confusing sentence) But to a certain extent Edna did as she

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    In the feminist bildungsroman The Awakening (1899)‚ Kate Chopin highlights the internal struggles of a Victorian woman restricted from achieving artistic‚ financial‚ and sexual freedom due to conventional gender roles and expectations imposed upon her by society. The author explores the journey of Edna Pontellier‚ a dissatisfied Protestant wife living in the Creole society of late - nineteenth century New Orleans. The protagonist is on a quest to reclaim independence and unity with herself. Along

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    Written by Kate Chopin during the Victorian period‚ The Awakening deals with woman’s rights issues such as women in society‚ women’s roles‚ and women’s personal identity. More specifically‚ the narrator and protagonist‚ Edna Pontellier desires the aspects of love outside of her loveless marriage‚ and pursues a way to fit in to an incompatible society. Compared to Adele Ratignolle‚ the ideal woman and mother of the time‚ Edna is subpar with the attention she gives her family. As a way to find herself

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    Feminism in Chopin ¨She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world” (Chopin). Kate Chopin believed women should find themselves instead of trying to become what society expects of them. She was born in a time when women did not have rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Chopin expressed feminism in her short stories and novels to open societies “eyes” on the reality of life. Even though‚ her work

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    throughout the course of the period‚ and female liberties and rights were seldom. Kate Chopin‚ an American author‚ created the novella to depict the habitual lifestyle of Victorian women. Given the time of publication‚ one could dispute the condemnation of the novella as a result of its central concept: feminism. In recent years‚ however‚ a plethora of people eulogize Chopin for her eloquent depiction of women’s lives. Chopin employs characterization‚ symbolism‚ and allegory to reveal maiden roles in the

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    Kate Chopin is an author that tends to relate the books that she writes to her own life. In “The Awakening” this style of writing is very apparent. To demonstrate these many similarities I have written a type B psychoanalytical analysis of this book. “The Awakening” reflects Chopin’s life‚ views on life‚ and places she’s lived in many obvious and subtle ways. In the book “The AwakeningKate Chopin relates to many of the characters and their attributes. Two characters that Chopin best relates too

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    theory is a huge topic with authors who also want to voice their opinion on the matter. One of these authors being the writer of The AwakeningKate Chopin. Through her writing‚ Chopin expresses her view by taking on the aspect of the female social class‚ and of how different it is treated within the two theorized sociological settings.      During her time‚ Chopin was part of a highly detested group whose focus was mainly on that of

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    course I feel there is so much more for me to learn in the future on the subject of literature. Though there were several great reads to choose from for our final paper I have decided to write about the book titled “ The Awakening” by Kate Chopin which was based during the 1800’s. I believe that the book has the Feminism theory seems to apply to it. As we discussed before not one definition of Literature is the same‚ there is more than one answer to this question.

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    The Awakening‚ which was written by Kate Chopin‚ was about a woman named Edna‚ who discovered her aspiration of what she wanted from life throughout the story. Kate Chopin was considered an advocate for feminism during the 20th Century because of the novels she wrote. The definition of a feminist would be “the doctrine advocating social‚ political‚ and all other rights of women equal to those of men” (Dictionary). The novel was her discovering what her purpose was as an individual‚ but considering

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    Kate Chopin lived and died at a time of great social revolution. Surrounding her life was the women’s rights movement. Many female writers during this time discussed their qualms with society through entertaining pieces of fiction. Chopin’s The Awakening is an example of this form of writing; the book is about a woman who seeks sexual fulfillment outside of marriage. Her “The Story of an Hour” is another of her societal analysis pieces. In “The Story of an Hour‚” Kate Chopin reveals her beliefs about

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