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    The Awakening by Kate Chopin is about a woman’s transformation from an obedient traditional housewife and mother into a self-realized, sexually liberate and independent woman. The novel published in 1899 back in a time when women were not thought of as people but as property of their husband’s. Throughout the novel Edna Pontieller expresses her progress, in The Awakening, as a new woman by using the symbolism of the caged birds, art and music, houses, and the sea. From the very beginning of…

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    Literary Criticism: The Awakening and the Failure of the Psyche It is apparent that one can correlate Greek mythology to The Awakening when reading Franklin’s criticism. Franklin associates the paradigm of Psyche to the pathological, internal struggle of Edna, where the fear of the confrontation of solitude is prevalent. Franklin first explains the irony in the title of The Awakening, given the fact that Edna sleeps, living in a world filled with fantasy rather than being psychologically and…

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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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    From SIRI to autonomous cars, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow rapidly. Today, artificial intelligence is known as narrow AI (or weak AI), as it is designed to perform a narrow task, for example, voice recognition only or only driving a car. “Researchers’ long-term goal is to create artificial general intelligence (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, general AI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task.” (Tegmark,…

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    Mostly everyone in the world has thought about their future. And some of those people have thought about inventions so great and beyond our lifetime but what if I tell you one of those inventions is coming soon. That invention … is a driverless car. The Creation Driverless cars is the beginning of a new beginning breaking the technology industries itself. The great creation was created by Google engineers and employees, Google companies also tended to the situation. Soon this may lead to…

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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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