Category: The Awakening

The modern problem of social gender inequality has existed since the advent of civilization. Its origins are so deep that it is almost impossible to trace their beginning, but their consequences live on and exist to this day. What began as simple social and biological differences between men and women, resulting in different roles in…

Edna Pontellier, the heroine of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, lives in the United States during the 1800s. During those days, men dominated U.S. society while women were considered inferior to them. The Feminism movement that demanded women should be treated equally as men, having the same political, economic, and social rights began only in…

Kate Chopins The Awakening is a one of the first books about feminism with a heroine desiring freedom from societal expectations. The main character is Edna Pontellier, a married woman in her late twenties with two sons and a husband, Léonce Pontellier. The latter is a successful businessman who loves his wife and children. The…

Introduction The Awakening is one of the most popular novels by the American writer Kate Chopin, who is famous for her brave illustration of sexuality in her works. The story tells about a woman named Edna, who struggles to fight the societal perceptions of motherhood, which define her as the wife of Leonce Pontellier and…

Table of Contents Introduction Kate Chopin The Awakening Conclusion Bibliography Introduction American literature is the written or factual work prepared in United States and some of its former colonies. It consists of thousands of short stories and classic novels and covers all other kinds of subjects and genres (DArcy 6). One outstanding fact that remains…

The article The Awakening: an authoritative text, biographical and historical contexts, criticism kicks off by giving the novel The Awakening appreciation for being among the few fiction publications that front a female protagonist. The author then goes ahead to explain how the gender of the main character causes her to experience a mixture of both…

Table of Contents Social Roles of Motherhood Fight between Public and Private Life The Awakening Naturalism under The Awakening Feminist Viewpoints Women in The Awakening Women in the Nineteenth Century Summary Work Cited Social Roles of Motherhood The beginning of the twentieth century saw both immense economic expansion and profound social change, as seen by…

Power, or the desire for it, is an intoxicating, and at times corrupting concept. Power could mean authority, or freedom: both of which the protagonist in The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier, longs for. In an ironic twist that seems almost out of place in book that deals with gender power dynamics and the…

Kate Chopin’s the awakening, had been shrouded with controversy since its release in the 18th Century and ‘morally condemned’ by society in the 19th century. In my opinion, Edna’s awakening occurred in three significant phases to include the sleeping, the dreaming and the actual awakening, which are further demonstrated by Kate Chopin’s application of femme…

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is circulated around Edna Pontellier, the protagonist and the events throughout her married life. Chopin did not have the intention to show how different Edna is compared to her society of perfect mother-woman, but instead shows the way Edna becomes self-aware and discovers more meaning to her life. Chopin made…