IB English HL Major Works Data Sheet: The Awakening | | |Author: Kate Chopin Year of publication: 1899 | | | |
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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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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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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 did
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AP English: Literature and Composition Name: Larissa Maggard Major Works Data Sheet Major Works Data Sheet Page 2 Major Works Data Sheet Page 3 Characters Name Role in the story Significance Adjectives Marlow Kurtz general manager Kurtz’s Intended Marlow’s aunt Russian trader African mistress of Kurtz protagonist‚ narrator of interior story
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Gabriella McLaughlin Period 2 Pre-AICE English Language MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway HISTORICAL FACTS President Truman ordered the construction of a hydrogen bomb in 1950. Polaroid cameras were invented in 1947. Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President in 1953. In 1948‚ Gandhi was assassinated. China became a communist state in 1949. Soviet Union possessed an atomic bomb in 1949. MAIN CHARACTERS Santiago - He is a protagonist and an old man who
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Major Works Data Sheet Advanced Placement Literature and Composition | |Biographical Information about the Author: | |Title: Ethan Frome | | | |Edith Wharton
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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 Awakening” Kate 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 Awakening‚ Kate 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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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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