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A 5 page essay that offers an overview of Chopin's The Awakening, discussing themes, setting and plot summary. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Kate Chopins The Awakening Research Compiled for
, Enterprises Inc. By - May, 2012 properly! Kate Chopins 1899 novel The Awakening shocked the
public because the protagonist, Edna Pontellier differed dramatically from the prescribed gender role for white women of the middle and upper classes during that era. These women were expected to
focus their lives exclusively on providing for the welfare of their husbands and children, finding fulfillment completely within the domestic sphere. Edna, on the other hand, is pictured by Chopin
as often distracted in regard to her children, somewhat alienated towards her husband and longing for independence. The following examination of Chopins classic feminist novel offers an overview of the
novels themes and setting within the context of a brief plot summary. The novel begins with Edna escaping the city heat by spending the summer on Grand Isle, a
resort island in the Gulf of Mexico. Like the other women on Grand Isle, Edna is accompanied by her children. However, unlike them, she is not particularly concerned with their
care. Chopins description of Ednas attitude towards the other women on the island, whom Edna thinks of disparagingly as "mother-women," focus intently on their children, practically worship their husbands and
consider it a "holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels" (Chopin 19). As this indicates, Chopin quickly establishes Edna as a stark departure from
the accepted societal paradigm of what a woman was expected to be in the roles of wife and mother. Ednas husband, Leonce, perceives his wife in terms of being
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