Second Great Awakening

Sofia Blankenship Mrs. Schroder AP Literature and Composition 28 December 2016 The Price of Sacrifice: 2014 Prompt In Kate Chopin’s novella, The Awakening, she addresses a variety of issues specific to the Victorian Era the scenes are set in, such as double standards or the deep divide between socioeconomic classes. Yet, one of the most prominent points Chopin approaches, is how values are exposed by what an individual is willing to sacrifice. She expresses this through her tragic heroine,…

In The Awakening, Kate Chopin illustrates the slow awakening of Edna Pontellier, a married woman who seeks her own happiness of individuality and her desires in a Victorian society. As a result, Edna tries to make changes in her life, such as abandoning her responsibilities as a mother and relocating into her own home. However, Edna is soon aware that change is not pleasant. Feeling impossibility and hopelessness, Edna chooses to die as an ultimate escape from the restrictions of the Victorian…

a sense of power. It can push against you, holding you under its clear blue weight; it can pull your body close in a suffocating embrace with each deep swell; it can reel back like a serpent, twisting around your toes and licking your heels. The Awakening by Kate Chopin ties the water’s wild and sensuous tendrils to the difficulties of women in the 19th century who attempted to attain the freedom of the ocean without drowning in its loneliness. Chopin depicts the struggle of women who rejected…

Throughout Kate Chopin's The Awakening the main character, Edna, is shown to have a mental state that can be described as erratic and unpredictable. She never knows what she quite wants on a surface level but that she eternally wants liberating freedom. Edna can only achieves her freedom, her ‘awakening’ through death, but she does so consciously. She knows what she really wanted in the end and how she was going to get it. Edna's ‘awakening’ started in the Grand Isles, when she started…

“through the delusion of romantic love” after witnessing Adèle give birth (Stone). Carole Stone then moves onto displaying the immense contrast between Adèle and Mme. Reisz and how they both-also including Robert and Alcée- contributed to various awakenings in Edna such as her “self-expression” and “sexual autonomy”. Edna’s first…

There’s no escaping the fairy tale in popular culture; a woman trapped under duress, awaiting for a man to rescue her. It’s an archetype that transcends time and continent, but whether it’s approach to gender roles is outdated is an entirely different question. Louise Bourgeois was fascinated with this concept, due to her parents tumultuous relationship and the trauma surrounding identity that pursued her throughout her life. One of the pieces that highlighted the existence of gender roles in…

doesn’t believe that she is sick, then she’s forced by her husband to get some “rest” as a form of treatment. Jane states in the text, “John is a physician, and perhaps-(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)-perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing…

Deep below the surface of the Pacific ocean, there was city hidden. Where nobody would or could see, where magical creatures that no one could ever know. when they're once live the guardian mermaids of Shallow waves. Lunabelle Lunabelle where are you?! My mother yelled. I Stop Make little water bubbles, With my hand. I always wonder why, why do I have this power and how?.I had just gotten This power on my 14th birthday and I felt I was different but so different that I’ll have something so…

In Kate Chopin’s, The Awakening, readers can anticipate an eye-opening experience or revelation from simply reading the title of the novel. Edna Pontellier, the novel’s protagonist, experiences a unique awakening that forces her to question not only her societal role, but her own self identity. Kate Chopin presents feelings of isolation, freedom, and solitude within the mind of Edna, in a way that is all consuming. This consumptions adds a level of drama to the novel as these feelings take over…

The act of suicide is rarely seen as a positive embracing of freedom or an act of re-birth. Kate Chopin’s bildungsroman, The Awakening, suggests that it was impossible for a woman to be free within the confines of the social constructs and standards of the time in which she lived, ultimately resulting in the protagonist’s detrimental yet inevitable death. Chopin supports her argument by demonstrating the outcome of a woman who intends to break social barriers, defines sexual identity and its…