Kate Beckinsale

I think by using the handscroll you can go through the work slowly and take your time which gives your mind time to imagine and absorb the images as it is slowly unrolled, much more like reading a book. You scroll thru like you would turn the pages of a book and take as much time as needed. When you are looking at hanging scrolls you see the work in its entirety and have to take in everything at once. To me hanging scrolls are more for an artwork that is to be viewed in its entirety and with…

Sarah Newell Mrs. Hans Edna Drowns Thesis Statement: In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, protagonist Edna Pontellier struggles with her identity internally, thus creating a ripple effect in the inability to confirm or disprove her morality at first glance; her indecisiveness about herself leaks onto how surrounding characters and the society in context perceive her. TS#1: Because Edna is relatively introspective, she is aware of the interior change that occurs between her in the time submerged…

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a short story about a woman given the news of her husband’s death. While she was grieving, she starts to realize that because he is dead, she now only has to live for herself. She soon finds out that her husband is still living, while receiving this news, she passes away from “shock.” This is an example of a modern short story because it emphasizes subtle characterization rather than fast-paced plot, implies rather than state facts, emphasizes revelation…

Originally, I thought that The Story of the Hour, by Kate Chopin, was going to be about a woman losing her will to live when she found out that her husband had been killed in a horrific train accident, instead I soon came to find out that she was feeling truly trapped and unloved in her marriage. When Mrs. Mallard started whispering “free, free, free” it became very apparent that she was not looking at the inheritance that she would be receiving, instead she finally gained the right to unhide…

Throughout the novel, Chopin uses imagery to show that society is oppressive. Two of the most important images that Chopin uses repeatedly throughout the course of the novel is the image of the sea and the image of birds. The imagery of the sea is repeated in The Awakening and comes to be a major symbol of Edna awakening. “The sea is a symbol of Edna's subconscious” (Anastasopoulou 23). The first time that she manages to swim on her own, is used by Chopin to represent the first major step that…

Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening tells the story of Edna, a married woman, who falls in love with another man, Robert, in 19th century Louisiana. The chosen passage takes place after Edna’s trip to the beach with Robert where she contemplates why she chose to go out with him. The usage of literary devices, metaphors, symbolism, and alliterations help evoke the overarching themes of freedom and solitude, convention versus individuality, and the theme of reflection. To begin with, in this excerpt…

We all want what we don't have. Everyone would like to be living someone's else's life at some point of their lives. I wonder if that was what it was like for the half-bloods we always hear about. You know, the half-bloods like Percy and Annabeth, all those ones that we always hear stories about. You spend your time dazing off thinking did they spend their entire lives wishing they could be like regular kids, with no intensity and adventure in their lives? But here's the main question and…

Why Can’t We Handle Our Freedom? The Story Of An Hour by Kate Chopin is a beautifully crafted ironic short fictional story, that revolves around our human inability to grasp our freedom. We as a species often feel trapped by the overwhelming blessing that is complete freedom. Often described by existentialists, the only thing holding us back is the barriers that we create for ourselves. This short story is able to express the excitement that is complete and utter freedom with a dark ironic…

In “The Awakening” the protagonist Edna Pontellier awakens herself on a family vacation on Grand Isle. Her awakening consists of meeting Robert Lebrun,falling in love with him, and becoming defiant of her husband. Her defiance is more evident as the story continues, while still on vacation, Edna refuses to go to bed, instead, she lays in a hammock all night until her muscles are sore. Once back home on Esplanade Street Edna refused to take call Tuesday, instead, she decides to go out which…

Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour,” takes place in the late 1800s, before women were granted the right to vote. In this story, a Victorian idealistic view is placed on women. One can see the dreadful limitations women endured strictly based on women social standings and forced marriages. Many women, like Mrs. Mallard in this passage, dealt with unfit and inadequate marriages. Originally, the reader believes the reason Mrs. Mallard wishes to weep and sit alone is due to her…