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    Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is an artfully crafted piece of literature in the late nineteenth century. During this time, The Awakening is seen as vulgar and distasteful to many critics, but the book gave a much-needed “eye opener” to the perspective of women’s suffrage. This story is told in the eyes of Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother, who struggles with the ideas of freedom and self-awareness. Society’s expectations of women are to be a “stay-at-home” caretaker of the home and children…

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    The desire to belong is integral to human nature, but so is curiosity. The Awakening is a Victorian era novel by Kate Chopin following Edna Pontellier’s untimely search for social, financial, and emotional independence. Her character is highly reflective in nature. At one point she notes that while she may conform to appease those watching, she secretly questions the behaviour she witnesses in herself and others. Chopin examines the disparity between outward conformity and inner doubt through…

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    master her feeling by not to showing outward and spoken feelings of affections, either in herself or in others. This common custom seems to be understood among wealthy married women and their husbands. However, one summer while vacationing at the Grand Isle, the reserved manner Edna always enveloped began to loosen a little and her soul began to awaken. That summer, a young man named Robert Lebrun stirred Edna’s…

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    Leonard Fournette Wiki, Age, Height, Married, Salary, Net Worth and Bio Leonard Fournette age and bio Leonard Joseph Fournette III AKA Leonard Fournette was born on 18th January 1995 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States of America which makes Leonard Fournette age of 22 years old now. He is the son of Leonard Fournette, Jr. and Lory Fournette. The Hurricane Katrina in the year 2005 changed his life as his grandfather died by the storm and family forced to move Texas. He has a younger…

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    The Awakening by Kate Chopin is based upon the ideals of Feminism, which promote equality for all genders. In the time period it was written, The Awakening was viewed as an obsurd opposition to societal standards. "Edna Pontellier's free thoughts and behaviors were not accepted at that period. The attacks on the book were too harsh for Chopin to continue her writing career, and even ended the discussion on the book for almost half a century" ("Limin Bai"). Posessing a strong message that is…

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    Sexism In The Awakening

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    Kate Chopin's The Awakening enlightens readers on sexism from the feminist perspective. The literary masterpiece depicts the transformation of a once obedient submissive, traditional wife into that of a liberated woman. The Awakening is a journey of self-discovery, which constitutes the focus of the book. The heroine Edna must emerge from traditional gender roles and find independence from her stereotypical husband. She must decide to free herself from the stifling assumptions and oppressions…

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    In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier gradually realizes the societal expectation for her to conform to the female stereotype and attempts to discover freedom instead. Rather than live as a “mother-woman” whose entire existence revolves around only her husband and children, she wishes to discover her own person and live as that woman. In the beginning of the book, Mr. Pontellier criticizes his wife and wakes her up so she can tend to their children in the middle of the night and otherwise fit into…

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    The Awakening Synthesis

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    Kate Chopin’s story The Awakening tells the story of a lady named Edna who has infidelity issues. Edna struggles within a love triangle between her husband, Robert, and Alcee. Edna’s heart longs for Robert, but that relationship ends. The story concludes with Edna swimming out into the ocean without returning. There are several different critical receptions relating to The Awakening. Two of my sources are related and argues that The Awakening wasn’t created for children. The other source…

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    In The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses the motif of music to describe Edna’s desires of becoming more independent and her mind’s vivid imagery, which subsequently provides a foreshadow. During the party at Madame Lebrun’s home in Grand Isle, Edna breaks away from the party and steps out onto the porch where she is admiring the view of the sea. Eventually, Robert comes to join her and asks her if she’d like to listen to Mademoiselle Reisz play the piano. While he goes to find her, Chopin writes:…

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    Grand Central terminal was originally created to be a train station and still serves that purpose today. Owned by the Vanderbilt’s, Grand Central Terminal earned its name as a terminal because all railways end there, it's always been referred to as Grand Central station. Grand Central Terminal is not only iconic structure in the middle of New York City, but is still a working train stain to help people on their daily commute to places inside the immediate tri-state area and the east coast.…

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