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    5.10 the Awakening

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    1. What features make The Awakening a "local color" story?The type of dialogue used‚ the way the town is depicted and the fact that it was a time where women did not have much say in their lives or decisions 2. What customs and beliefs of Edna Pontellier ’s society are significant in relation to her psychological development?The typical new Orleans woman is expected to let their life revolve around their husband and children and they are expected to spend their time doing their domestic duties

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    The Awakening Perspective

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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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    A lot of quotes have inspired me over the years‚ many of which I will be writing about in this space. I choose to begin with a quote that touched a nerve. Emerson has a lot of inspirational sayings‚ but this one still motivates me everyday. Society likes things defined. And since we humans live in a society that sets limits‚ we have definitions of what being successful means. An individual has to “make it in a particular line of work” or “follow a particular career path” in order to be termed

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    The Awakening Analysis

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    Literary Analysis of The Awakening In “The Awakening‚” Edna and Adele‚ the protagonist and antagonist‚ are both mothers trying to make it in the Creole society. Edna’s character rejects the roles of society given to her and the burdens of these expectations are expressed throughout; whereas‚ Adele is viewed as a motherly figure who is confident‚ and powerful in her life. The main topic that is expressed throughout the story is feminism‚ the process of creating equal rights for both men

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    among society goes down historically as something so inevitably iconic as an occurrence known as civil disobedience. It is no doubt that civil disobedience‚ the act of opposing a law deemed unjust and peacefully disobeying it henceforth‚ spurs such great controversy in our society. Civil disobedience impacts society in a positive manner that does not hinder nor deteriorate the good name of the just nation that is home‚ but moreover poses as an influence for what is better accepted by humans as lawful

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    Quotes for The Awakening

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    AP Lit. The Awakening Quote How to Read Literature Like a Professor Quote Reveal deeper meaning of The Awakening Quote 1. “He reproached his wife with her inattention her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother’s place to look after children‚ whose on earth was it?...Tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier’s eyes…Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life.” (Chopin‚ 7-8) 1. “When Virginia Woolf writes about women of her time only being permitted

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    * Second Bank of the United States-chartered in 1816 part of American System; Clay wanted to use bank as campaign issue; Jackson vetoed bill to charter the bank again in 1832 and refused to put federal money into the national bank but put it into pet banks

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    2. I disagree with Kant’s using the transcendental ideas for there must also be material conditions. Eventually‚ the material conditions are as important as the ideas. When he talked about mind formulates the concept of self how about the body. The mind cannot exist without the body. The world does not contain only the events but also the material things. Therefore the mind must have the concept of both form and matter. Thus‚ I support Kant there are some transcendent ideas cannot be proven as they

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    The movie Awakenings

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    Meagan McGee Psychology 1300 Awakenings The movie Awakenings starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro portrays the true story of a doctor named Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ and the events of the summer of 1969 at a psychiatric hospital in New York. Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ who is a research physician‚ is confronted with a number of patients who had each been afflicted with a devastating disease called Encephalitis Lethargica. The illness killed most of the people who contracted it‚ but some were left living

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    In the awakening‚ Chopin explores the idea of motherhood throughout the novella. She uses the characters Edna Pontellier and Adele Ratignolle to guide this exploration. Edna‚ the main character‚ is not exactly the ideal mother. She doesn’t devote herself to her sumptuous like husband or children‚ and even has a nanny that watches over them. While Adele is seen as the "embodiment of every womanly grace and charm"‚ who commits the majority of her time to caring for her children or husband. However

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