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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 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.

Tags:the, great, awakening

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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.

Tags:second, great, awakening

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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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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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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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In this article, the writer discusses class differences during the 'Great Awakening'. The writer maintains that those who practiced the established religions tended to be of a different class and outlook of those who heeded the call of the 'Great Awakening' preachers. The established plutocrats found the new religious movements threatening, and thereby controversial. The writer addresses the 'Great Awakening' as a controversy between the existing, moneyed classes and the local traders, artisans and the laboring poor.

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"The colonists were spread out, rural, and had little contact with the religion of the larger towns, such as Boston and Philadelphia. Nearly all professed some form of religion, and nearly all needed religious and moral support for the perils they were facing: death, childbirth, Indian raids, and the terrifying images of hell. The established, Puritan religion of the Massachusetts Colony preached that not attending church every day would lead to eternal damnation. Many who lived in rural areas were unable to attend church. These were the farmers, the hunters, the small tradesmen, who were God-fearing but bereft of formal Church support.
"The obvious solution was the itinerant preacher, who brought God to the settlements and villages in the far-flung hinterlands. The need was great throughout the Colonies, and many preachers arose to take on the task."

Tags:poor, church, preacher, belief

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This paper contends that in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", we need not go any further than the title to realise that not only is some sort of revelation taking place, but that it is also the theme of the novel. The paper examines how every word uttered by Edna Pontellier, every action made and everything described by the narrator gears the audience towards the inevitable awakening. By distinguishing between epiphany and revelation, the paper attempts to show that the epiphany occurs much earlier in the novel and that although there is a revelation at the end of the novel, one cannot consider it as the promised spiritual awakening.

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"In trying to define when Edna's awakening took place, one first must establish the difference between epiphany and revelation. A revelation is, quite literally, that which is revealed and therefore brought to recognition. As described by Aristotle in On Poetics recognition [anagnorisis] is "a change from ignorance [agnoia] to knowledge [gnosis]" which is "most beautiful when it comes to be at the same time as a reversal" (which is simply "a change into the contrary"(18)). These are the two of the parts which make up the Aristotelian idea of tragedy, the third being that of suffering. All three of these criteria are admirably met in The Awakening, with Edna's final earth-shattering revelation which is brought about from the note which Robert leaves, the suffering which ensues during the night, and the actions which follow contrary to what Robert's note intended."

Tags:Edna, Pontellier

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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.

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""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

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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