First Great Awakening

The short story “Desiree’s Baby” was written by the American author Kate Chopin. The story takes place in Louisiana and it begins with a flashback that Madame Valmonde has of Desiree being a baby and realizes that the baby she had found 18 years ago now has a baby. When Desiree gave birth, Madame Valmonde went to visit her and her baby. As soon as she saw the baby she knew there was something wrong with him, but that didn’t matter because Desiree loved him unconditionally. As time passed Armand,…

without her husband Alcée, and thus abstaining from her ‘wifely duty’, she takes “the first free breath since her marriage” (548). Though she is devoted to her husband, “their intimate conjugal life was something which she was more than willing to forego for a while” (548). Like Calixta, Clarisse finds happiness in momentarily escaping her marriage and returning to “the pleasant liberty of her maiden days” (548): the first is reminded of her days as a debutant by reuniting with a former suitor,…

Kate Chopin's allegory 'Story of an Hour' captures the social restraints imposed upon women in the late 19th century, detailing the struggle for female independence and freedom. Utilizing both direct and indirect characterization, Chopin's short story contains themes of societal repression of women, emancipation from the patriarchy and the pursuit of liberty, and the perils of marriage and monogamy. Chopin's use of a myriad of literary techniques such as imagery and repetition highlight the…

gives the reader a sense of what the story may be about or what its talking about in order to feel what the author writes down in this short story. I personally recommend “Desiree’s Baby” to anyone because of the plot twist at the end. It’s such a great example of irony against Armand Aubigny because he falsely accused Desiree for being the one to give their baby the dark skin complexion. Although Desiree’s background is unknown, it was Armand’s black heritage that affected the baby’s genetics.…

If you do not stand up for yourself you will never be free. Freedom is essential for a happy life, but basic rights are so often taken from people. Amel Benaboura illustrates this issue in her short story ‘Only a Woman’ which depicts a young woman facing oppression in a patriarchal society. Benaboura uses metaphors, anecdotes and word choice to emphasise her key idea about fighting for your rights. Yamina is a young woman who has grown up in Algeria, a patriarchal society, where violence…

Edna's process of awakening occurs when she attempts to translate her re-birth into actual realities in life. Before her awakening, Edna she is torn between her desire for self-discovery and realities of life as a Victorian woman. In her first major awakening, Edna awakens to self-awareness. In this case, it is the combination of baptismal swim and music that act as catalysts to her awakening. In Grand isle, both society and nature appear to endorse the process of self-transformation in life,…

characterizes the narrator as observant, imaginative, and strained, which is what led her to the small down of Dunnet. The excerpt does so by the third person point of view style seen in the first two paragraphs to show how observant she is to her surroundings. It also characterizes her imaginativeness when she transition into first person and tells us her thoughts on certain things. For example, the pungent odors of some of the herbs prompts her to think that they might have once “belonged to…

life. Wielding a swift amount of metaphors, Diction, alliteration, and Dickinson calls upon the reflection of conformity and taking charge of one’s life despite the overruling stature of society sharing a similar parallel to the plot behind The Awakening, a novel by Kate Chopin. . Initially, Dickinson provides a comparison between the act of baptism and living according to the life that one was in a way given. When Dickinson talks about “the name they dropped upon my face with water,” (2-3)…

Journeys through life come in many different forms, yet they all include the same basic progressive steps. They evolve from a dream, to reality, to the inevitable consequences, much like Edna Pontellier. Kate Chopin, in her book The Awakening, utilizes various metaphors of birds to symbolize Edna on her journey, revealing the theme that freedom comes with a price. Chopin opens the book with the description of a caged bird, setting up the metaphor from the start. She describes the bird as a bird…

The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin and first published in 1899, is a story about a nineteenth-century wife and mother who is discontent with her life, and therefore undertakes a journey of self-exploration in search of independence, happiness, and self-fulfillment. A Room With A View, written in 1908 by E. M. Forster, is a novel about the transformation of a traditional medieval young lady into an enlightened and open-minded woman. Although they share many similarities, Edna Pontellier, the…