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    Enlightenment and The Great Awakening are two movements in colonial history that had a greater impact on the lives of the new world people. The Enlightenment period took place in the 18th century and it shaped the mind of colonists‚ and The Great Awakening took place in mid 18th century and can be describe as progress of colonist’s hearts. Enlightenment is a period during the eighteenth century; it was an intellectual movement that was influenced by the European enlightenment. The Enlightenment

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    International Journal of Research (IJR) Vol-1‚ Issue-11 December 2014 ISSN 2348-6848 A Study of Literary Feminist Themes in The Awakening By Kate Chopin Kapil Sharma Research Scholar (M.Phil.) Department of English Lovely Professional University‚ Jalandhar‚ Punjab (India). Email: kapillove21@gmail.com Abstract The Awakening‚ novel is written at the end of the 19th century in America. In the 19th century in America and Europe‚ men and women were expected to fill the distinct domain of the society

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    Analysis of the Great Awakening and Revolutionary Thought In the 1730s and the 1740s‚ religious revival swept through the New England and Middle Colonies. Through these revivals‚ the colonists came to view religion as a discrete and personal experience between God and man which‚ “undermined legally established churches and their tax supported ministers.” (Henretta‚ P. 112) Joseph Tracey was the first person to describe this period of revivalism as‚ ‘the Great Awakening.’ In 1841‚ Joseph Tracy

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    Edna’s Struggle and Awakenings Kate Chopin by the means of creations like The Awakening is trying to make the female in society think about her condition and also push the feminism movement. Her depiction of The Awakening is realistic as she develops Edna Pontellier’s character from a socially and morally respectable individual to an individual that turns her back on everything that was certain in her life to become independent. She struggles between her subconscious and conscious thoughts as unusual

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    That’s good. Wilson’ll have a little business at last” (Fitzgerald 137). Even in jest this reaction not an appropriate response. A death being referred to as a favorable event can never be ethically uttered. Furthermore in The Awakening‚ Edna has undergone her sexual awakening. She appears

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    The Second Great Awakening can be credited with the creation of many social reforms. The Temperance Movement‚ the abolition of slavery‚ mental health‚ and a better society for the disabled were all reforms during the Antebellum period. The reforms attempted to enhance American society and make it equal and fair to all. One of the very first ideals that America tried to reform was it’s citizen’s alcohol use. Many large cities lacked clean water and milk‚ so they resorted to drinking alcohol to quench

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    narratology was the interpretation of classical narratology in the point of view of one gender. It is hard to imagine a literary text that has affected the study of nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture more profoundly than Kate Chopin’s The Awakening which was published as long ago as 1899. Those who have studied it know that however the novel is framed--as local color‚ as women’s writing--the question that still engages most readers is at the same time very naive and very sophisticated. Among

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    Documented Argument of the Awakening Kate Chopin’s depiction of "The Awakening" is realistic as she develops Edna Pontellier’s character from a socially and morally respectable individual to an individual that turns her back on everything closest to her as she births her new self-being. Edna Pontellier struggles between her subconscious and conscious thoughts as unusual feelings stir unfounded emotions and senses. Some of Chopin’s characters lend themselves in Edna’s "awakening". Through examination

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    or different. Furthermore‚ there is this struggle to be deemed as “acceptable” by society instead of focusing on one’s true self. In Kate Chopin’s novel‚ The Awakening‚ the story focuses on Edna Pontellier a wife and mother who is unsatisfied with her life and starts to experience awakenings not only sexual but most importantly an awakening of herself identity. Edna struggles with finding happiness in balancing her independency

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    The Second Great Awakening was an enormous religious revival that swept the  American nation in the beginning of the 19th century. A revival is defined by Webster’s  Dictionary as “the growth of something or an increase in the activity of something after a long  period of no growth or activity.” This revival caused an unfathomable amount of permanent  change to the United States. The Second Great Awakening converted millions of Americans‚  resulted in several new denominations of faith‚ changed the the way the American people 

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