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A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares Kate Chopin's The Awakening, published in 1899, and Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, first performed in 1982. The writer argues that these works represent feminist literature separated by close to a century of world events and feminist progress. However, the concerns of these authors are still very similar. They each emphasize the conflicts inherent in women's lives due to the restrictions imposed by society and by motherhood. In each case, the author highlights how society, as defined by men, necessarily impacts the relationship between mothers and their children. Social context and expectations, childbirth and maternal instinct are addressed by both Chopin and Churchill and shown to be part of the same interconnected web, which serves to influence how women react to motherhood in each work. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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and feminist progress. However, the concerns of these authors are still very similar. They each emphasize the conflicts inherent in womens lives due to the restrictions imposed by society and
by motherhood. In each case, the author highlights how society, as defined by men, necessarily impacts the relationship between mothers and their children. Social context and expectations, childbirth and maternal
instinct are addressed by both Chopin and Churchill and shown to be part of the same interconnected web, which serves to influence how women react to motherhood in each work.
Edna Pontellier is Chopins protagonist in The Awakening. In Ednas world, at the dawn of the twentieth century, women live in a world where their lives are subject to
numerous social restrictions (Simon 243). From the beginning of the novel, however, Edna is acutely aware that she is not fitted to the traditional roles of wife and mother. Edna
is fully aware that the cultural ideal is that women "idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings
as ministering angels" but she realized that she was not one such a "mother-woman" (Chopin 19). Chopin suggests that Ednas disinterest in her children stems from her own emotionally barren
and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoiselle Reisz, as an independent artist, Edna believes she
sees the life she could have had, pursing painting as her sole occupation, instead of being caught up in domestic roles for which she has no feeling or talent.
Mme. Reisz, who is childless, is somewhat of a mentor/muse to Edna, and very different from Ednas closest friend, Adele Ratignolle, who is one of the "mother-women" that Edna disdains.
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