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A 4 page overview of the lessons imparted in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and Linda Brent's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". The author emphasizes the point that although these books are vastly dissimilar in many respects, they are both 19th century works about women trying to find their place in the world. Edna Pontellier with Linda Brent both manage to do so but not only do they find completely different place, they do so in completely different ways. No additional sources are listed.
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Chopins "The Awakening" and Linda Brents "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" appear vastly dissimilar. Chopins tale, after all, features the largely transparent Edna Pontellier as its
protagonist. Edna is a well-educated middle class white woman that holds one of the better stations in life. Never-the-less, just as was the case for Linda Brent, that
comparatively less visible black woman who just happened to have previously been a slave, Edna was rebelling against a society that had held her captive in many respects.
Both "The Awakening" and "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" were written during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Each was
written during a time of tremendous societal change, a change which, in part, was evidenced with the appearance of several female authors. Chopin, along with such other white female
authors as Gilman, Jewett, and Freeman, enjoyed the fact that the nineteenth century was a time in which the status of middle class women was undergoing dramatic change, change which
allowed them to enter the literary world comparatively unchallenged. Brent was challenged even in this endeavor, however. As an escaped slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong
to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that class. Brent had to rely on the good graces of a white supporter to
get her feelings into a published form. The distinctions between Chopin and Brent were, in reality, quite vivid. Just as vivid, in
fact, as the contrast which existed between their respective books. Chopins "The Awakening", for example, reflected lower class women almost as non-entities. They existed in her story largely
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