Mademoiselle

In the “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin, the author centers the novel around Edna Pontellier who goes through a journey of finding freedom in environment with strict gender roles for women in the Victorian era. She proceeds to go on a journey of finding independence in a strict society by breaking the rules that has set up for her. There are several instances throughout the novel where she disobeyed the gender roles for the sake of her own freedom. An instance is when Edna was being defiant…

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Charles Dujarier first introduced the concept of body contouring and fat removal in 1920. Back then the surgeries were very unsuccessful and had deadly consequences. The first attempt of liposuction was done to a famous French ballerina dancer Mademoiselle Geoffre. She had desired more attractive knees and calves to make herself more alluring as a dancer and liposuction was the way to achieve this, but the operation took a turn for the worse when she had contracted gangrene and had to amputate…

A woman can’t live a life against the social standard without either being ostracized or dying. This was the situation Kate Chopin presented in her 1899 novel The Awakening, and the concept isn’t too far-fetched. Even though her description of Edna’s emotional epiphany and her subsequent suicide is an example of fiction, it is a rather realistic one nonetheless. In the time period that the book was written, the woman was thought to be an extension of her husband, and if a woman strayed from this…

them. “I believe I ought to work again. I feel as if I wanted to be doing something. I might study for a while with Laidpore” (Chopin 62). Another example of Edna’s yearns to work and become an artist is on page 70 as she declares to her friend Mademoiselle Reisz, ‘“Painting!” laughed Edna. “I am becoming an artist. Think of it!”’ Hence, these two quotes from the novel empathizes the fact that women, just like Edna Pontellier, want to work and break free from the typical female gender roles…

Many authors work impact the culture and society around them. The author Sylvia Plath definitely impacted American culture by writing about her battle with mental illness, like depression and her views on women's role in society. The roles for women in America at that time were not what Plath wanted. In novel, The Bell Jar, Plath shows her troubles with conflicting identities. Between trying to please her mother, trying to become successful, relationships, and mental illness. She also was…

Sylvia Plath has caused me to take a different path in not only my understanding of poetry, but the appreciation of it as well. This is the story of Sylvia Plath; a gruesome yet great story. There are many great things about Plath’s contemporary work. From her life to her death she was an inspiration to us all. Sylvia Plath’s Poetry reflects on her battles of despair with her personal struggles as an artist and as a woman in the modern century. Focusing on Plath’s major events of her life, it…

Society in the 1890’s had women subservient and ruled by men. Thus, women were often defined by a man, whether he was her father or husband, and if they were not they became separate from society. Edna Ponteiller in The Awakening by Kate Chopin is no exception. This novel reflects the idea that men in, specifically, Creole society in New Orleans greatly impact the lives of women. Edna desires a greater purpose in life, but her position limits her prospects. The men in Edna’s life, Lèonce…

Mademoiselle Reisz views the world differently as opposed to Ratignolle. She is one of the very few women who stood up and didn’t let society dictate or create a path for her. Reisz creates her own path through music. Every tone, beat, and harmony all speak…

This poster is a mock advertisement designed for mass distribution. Here, Burgin takes a typical image from the mass media in which a man and a woman are displayed in a rather sensuous scene. The image mirrors the sex appeal we are used to seeing in regular advertisements, and this therefore allows the piece to blend in with the various advertisements we see daily. Both the image and text guide the viewer to a critical meaning – ultimately highlighting the media’s role in shaping our desires.…