Washington Irving And The Awakening

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T Melose once said “Every work of literature leads up to one great moment of insight, one instant in which the truth stands revealed.” He tried to express how everything in a literary work comes together to orchestrate a perfect moment of epiphany when a character or reader can finally see things as they really are. This style of structure has been seen in many different successful works of literature throughout the ages. Authors like, dark romantic writer Washington Irving, and Kate Chopin, feminist author, have both successfully used this device in order to enhance their writing. In both works characters undergo intense emotional journeys that arrive in a perfectly epiphanies moment. One example of this is seen in The Awakening by Kate

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