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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts these novels, and also examines the theme of the American Dream in each. No additional sources are used.
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2001 -- properly! During the late-nineteenth century, Kate Chopin used literature to protest the oppressiveness of the patriarchal
Victorian society that flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. She believed that women had the right to forge their own identities, separate and distinct from their fathers, husbands
and sons, and Chopins literary masterpiece, The Awakening, published in 1899, was her feminist declaration of independence. Nearly a hundred years later, American author Toni Morrison initiated her own
literary crusade. She, too, had encountered her own fair share of oppression, but her struggles were compounded by the fact that she was not only a woman, but also
African American. Morrison chronicled the trials and tribulations of the African-American woman who wanted to remain true to herself while existing in a white persons world in her 1981
novel, Tar Baby. Both of these novels featured strong female protagonists who wanted to define themselves and not have American society
do it for them. Their experiences mirror those of the regional women of their respective time periods. Chopins Edna Pontellier was a Louisiana wife steeped in the traditions
of the plantation South. She married prosperous Leonce Pontellier so that she could achieve the social status she could have never attained otherwise. She was a wife and
mother, but was subject to frequent bouts of depression for a seemingly inexplicable reason. Was it perhaps because she was identified only as somebodys wife or mother, but still
didnt know who Edna Pontellier was? Morrisons Jadine Childs was a sophisticated African-American woman, who unlike many of her contemporaries, had the benefit of a college education, courtesy of
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