Category: The Awakening

Introduction: Setting as a Symbol in “The Awakening” The novel of The Awakening (1899) by author Kate Chopin presents a journey of physical, spiritual and sexual transformation of the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, a middle-class mother and wife in Louisianan society during the late 19th-century. The novel is set in three divergent, distinctive spaces physically represented…

Explain how the setting and mood are immediately established within the first few pages of each novel. Cite specific words and phrases that situate the reader. In the novels, the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Awakening By Kate Chopin, the authors illustrate the mood and setting in the first chapter. In the Scarlet…