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This paper details the oppressive lives that women led in the 1800's and tells the tale of one married woman and how she coped. In "The Awakening", the protagonist discovers her sense of individuality and her sexual passions and has an affair in order to fulfill these needs. She becomes awakened and more aware of herself and leaves her husband. This paper also includes a critique of "The Awakening" by Woman's Rights movements.

From the Paper
"The Awakening, which might have been more aptly titled, The Sexual Awakening shocked the delicate and rigid sensibilities of Kate Chopin's contemporaries of 1899, although many of those contemporaries were slowly experiencing awakenings of their own. In telling the story of a married woman who begins to realize that she is an individual human being, rather than a nonentity made up of female roles assigned by a male-dominated society, Chopin immediately struck resonant chords and rocked an already unbalanced boat. Rarely is such extreme reaction achieved unless the subject matter has deep roots tapping into the unspoken truth, and in this situation, the truth being dealt with was that of female oppression."

Tags:sexual, awakening, Kate, Chopin, women, individual, female, opression, male, society, rights

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The paper examines the age of the Baroque and explains how with the coming of this era society no longer focused on pompous pageantry and academic achievement, but instead geared itself towards the uneducated masses with the appeal of the senses. The paper describes how this led to changes in styles of music as well as to changes in the content, style and themes of literature, art, and architecture.

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"A study on this era showed that before the age of the Baroque came about in the 1600's discriminating classes of people reigned freely in Europe. This is the High Renaissance Period which showed much importance to the pageantry and fulfillment of courtiers and nobilities. The very cycle on which the society stood on then began to rebel against this certain kind of social quo and began to change the way of the times, thus giving birth to the age of the Baroque. As Robert Sherrane of the Juilliard School said, the very first emanations of the age's birth is the elevation of musicians from the status of common court entertainers to bona fide artists (Music History 102 http://www.siu.edu/~dfll/German/periods.html). Such a musical revolution then led to the liberation of other budding artists and philosophers which were confined within certain aristocratic limitations in the preceding century."

Tags:music, literature, arts, architecture, peasants

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The exercise of comparing the film adaptation to Dr. Oliver Sacks' volume "Awakenings" has been helpful in realizing that the written word and the film produced for a commercial and entertainment market, represent two very different kinds of expression. This paper involved a rereading of Sacks' "Awakenings" after viewing the acclaimed film of 1990 in which Robert de Niro played the character of Leonard, the first of several patients upon whom L-dopa medication is tried by the neurologist, Dr. Malcolm Sayers, s played by Robin Williams. From its opening minutes, the film is only based vaguely upon the account provided by Sacks of his treatment provided to a Miss Frances D. The book centers on this particular doctor-patient interaction while the film shows a young neurologist dealing mostly with the character of Leonard, the first to try L-dopa, but who also interacts with the other patients affected by the same condition.

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The concept of a fundamental human nature is pervasive in the Great Awakening. Women and African- Americans alike both received a more progressive social standing through the Great Awakening. This paper demonstrates how this process occurred.

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A paper on the Second Great Awakening and the influence it had, the cause of its arising and the various dynamics associated with it.

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This paper presents a book review on the "Awakening" by Kate Chopin. The review picks out one aspect of the book-the character's coming out-and tells why this point is of particular importance.

Tags:awakening, kate, chopin

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The following is research paper on Edna Pontellier in the novel "The Awakening" . This paper asserts the claim that Pontellier was a feminist for her time.

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This essay analyzes Chopin's "The Awakening," and attempts to understand the ending. After seeming to achieve her goal of freedom from social obligations, Edna drowns herself. This paper will consider how her suicide is the author's way of expressing a double bind for people who seek freedom. This paper examines Edna's different relationships in order to understand how her freedom is both possible and impossible, so that at the end her choice of death can indicate an understanding of her conflict.

Tags:awakening, price, freedom

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Kate Chopin's novel "The Awakening" (1895) is replete with human and other voices. This paper analyzes voices, conversations, laughter, sobbing, ambient noise, piano music and various other sounds that are described within "The Awakening," especially in terms of how these symbolically underscore the main character Edna Pontellier's "awakening" to her true desires in life.

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"Once she learns to swim well, Edna loves swimming in the ocean, where, as she glides and propels herself beneath the waves, she experiences an absence of sound. As Chopin also states, when Edna first realizes she can finally swim on her own, that feeling is so exhilarating to her that "she could have shouted for joy" (The Awakening, Part X, Paragraph 7)."

Tags:Edna, Pontellier, Madame, Lebrun, Etienne, Raoul, Creole

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This paper provides a detailed analysis of the book "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, focusing on the central motifs of slumbering and awakening, and sensuality and death. The main character, Edna, is portrayed as a typical Southern wife, becoming aware of her discontents and of the powerful experiences awaiting her. Her process of 'awakening' is examined, and the force of nature in this novel is illustrated.

From the Paper
""The Awakening," by Kate Chopin, is the lyrical, poetic story of a young married woman living a dull, stifling life. Slowly awakening to her discontents and to the power of art, sexuality, and the "delirium" of ecstatic experiences, she ends up committing adultery and then suicide. Her awakening from the slumber of southern femininity, of patriarchal convention, is real, but the forces she has unleashed are too great to handle. It is as if she has awakened forces that society itself cannot and will not allow. Ironically, Kate Chopin's book had the same impact on the society of the day. It was too powerful an evocation of a woman's sensuality, and was so widely criticized that this talented writer basically stopped writing."

Tags:creole, southern, femininity, sensuality, art, robert, lebrun, pontellier, alcee, ratignolle