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    AP Psychology; Awakenings 1. The abuses at Bainbridge Hospital reflected a broken system at that time. Any person who was deemed untreatable was put into a “garden”- where people were treated like flowers that were simply “watered” and “fed” every day. The attitude of the people who worked at the institution was of people who had accepted the system’s failures as a way of life; they did not strive for change‚ they simply “went with the flow.” Dr. Sayer introduces a number of attitudes that can

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    frequently in their own relationships and not just the one discussed in this story. He uses this example to tell the reader how sometimes relationships become tight and “entrapment” starts to occur. The two themes conveyed to tie the point together are despair and guilt and disconnectedness occurring because of the feeling of entrapment. Though “Boxes” discusses physical boxes‚ the story is also about the psychological boxes keeping us from partaking in different activities in life. When discussing both

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    The Awakening of Edna Pontellier Kate Chopin’s short story The Awakening is set during a time where women were expected to live in a patriarchal society. More specifically‚ this story tells of the well-to-do Creole lifestyles in New Orleans during the mid to late Nineteenth Century. Chopin’s personal experiences as a woman during this oppressive time and her growth as an individual inspired her to write about Edna Pontellier‚ a woman who tries to break from the expectations of society to

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    Louise Mallard’s Power Hour Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that speaks wonders in its one thousand words. The unique reaction of Chopin’s character‚ Louise Mallard‚ to her husband’s supposed death and her resulting death upon seeing him walk through the door allows for various interpretations to be made by readers. Through the events and thoughts of Louise embodied in the story‚ Chopin implies the oppression and lack of independence in Louise’s marriage and the joyful freedom

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    In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening‚ Edna Pontellier is a character who is alienated from the rest of society. She carries views which do not coincide with the norm‚ and in a way establishes her own idea of how women should live and be treated. Not only do her views estrange her from society‚ but she also physically separates herself from the life she used to live and the Victorian culture into which she was born. During this time‚ it was expected of a woman to be the perfect picture of a wife and mother

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    Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Portrayal of the character Edna Her foils Setting- feminist mvment‚ etc. Style Intended to help the reader understand the character of Edna her actual beliefs external/internal influences Tone Helping the style‚ the tone also helps the reader understand the rest of the characters Mr. Pontlierre (Critical Essay quote) Mademoiselle (Speech about bird with strong wings. V. Conclusion Edna Pontlierre experiences a theme of self-discovery throughout the entire novel

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    lighting contributed to these types of art. This era was greatly inspired by gothic-type stories‚ most of which were not the happiest type of stories. Delacroix was one such artist who depicted this. This French painter was friends with Frederic Chopin and was very similar due to his art being full of passion and exotic images‚ much like Chopin’s dynamic pieces. However‚ most of Delacroix’s

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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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    famers‚ they will be elected to join. Inducting literature into an official canon uses a similar process. Through identifying the similarities between the classic canonical novel Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald and naturalist Kate Chopin’s novella The Awakening‚ one confidently deems the latter author and her work worthy of canonical recognition. Conflicts begin to develop from‚ and

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    people truly individuals‚ or merely products of their environment? Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin explore the question in Ethan Frome and The Awakening‚ in which the protagonists are led by outside forces to challenge societal conventions. Employing the use of characterization‚ symbolism‚ and metaphor‚ the authors demonstrate that attempting to do so can lead to one’s destruction. The main characters in Frome and Awakening fill necessary roles and share similar attributes. Ethan is described as a loner

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