The Awakening

Lyndsay Albright Response to The Awakening Spark Edna Pontellier has opened her eyes to that of what a women can do other than take care of her children. And upon this discovery, she takes full advantage of her new found freedom. The restrictions and expectations imposed on her in the first place are based purely on the fact that she is a woman. With a theme of this novel being that of femininity and women’s rights as they are, is what the protagonist is challenged with. Edna has other…

Throughout the “Awakening” by Kate Chopin, has a much deeper meaning in the story, and it is shown by symbolism. These symbolic elements make the connection between Edna’s world, and her eventual awaking more effective. There are three common symbols that are used in the story are birds, houses, and the ocean and each means something different in the context of the story. The nature has an important impact, the birds represent freedom and the ability to fly but are also symbols for something…

temperance, and women’s rights. These reform movements were brought up by the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening began in the late 1790’s in New England and would ultimately spread throughout the country. The Second Great Awakening differed from the First Great Awakening because the people now had more religious freedom, as opposed to having everything based on one religion. The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement during the early 19th century. Charles Finney, the…

sex crazy, deranged, or “out of control” but have they ever considered the amount of control women are deprived of? Throughout women’s history, the lack of ability to control one's own decisions and growth was widespread across the Nation. In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier becomes a more conscious woman by challenging her inability to gain control of her life. One of the biggest influences on Edna’s life is the society she lives in. In the nineteenth century, restrictions set on women by…

itself. Often times, these elements interact with one another to push the story forward. “The Awakening” is dependent on all these elements, but setting is an important aspect of this novel. A character in particular, Edna Pontellier, is immensely impacted by her surroundings. The setting of Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening affects Edna through the location, social norms and time period. The location of “The Awakening” takes place on the Grand Isle off the coast of Louisiana, which is very…

include taxation without representation, the Intolerable Acts and the Great Awakening. Colonists showed resentment toward England after the Seven Years War due to taxation without…

Megan Mahon Mr.Morran American Literature 25 October 2016 The Awakening In the 1930’s it was very hard to find women willing to stand up for what they believed in and be themselves because at the time the world was run by men. For example, Rosa Parks, a young African American woman stood up for equality knowing that the consequences of her actions would be bad. This shows that it was very rare for women to break their stereotypes, but when they did it had a huge impact on the way that person…

Rosana Bravo April 23, 2017 Week Assignment 2- Compare and Contrast Southern Fiction- Mrs. Crow “The Awakening” VS “The Open Boat” The story “The Open Boat.” is that of an exemplary naturalism because of its skeptical representation of life, the characters are left with the presumption to the will of external forces, and nature which is not an entity but rather an indifferent force. Stephen Crane’s story seems to have a theme of hopelessness that runs through it which contributes to its…

The protagonist in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, and Alice Walker’s The Color purple have many similarities but also bear a large contrast to one another. Celie and Edna both find themselves in similar situations, the rebirth of independence, finding themselves and the awakening of their femininity, but they both go about this process very differently and thus we end with very polarizing characters. Both Celie and Edna depict an inward search for independence, and self actualization. Edna feels…

George Whitefield was a preacher in the Great Awakening, an emotional Christian movement in the late 1730’s. He was very popular, his sermons inspired and changed people with his new ideas. According to Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography (Document A), Whitefield was a very persuasive speaker. Franklin attended one of his sermons about building an Orphan House in Georgia, something that Franklin did not support as he did want one built in Philadelphia instead. However, as Whitefield went on,…