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This 5 page paper discusses some of the themes in Kate Chopin’s early feminist novel The Awakening. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Themes in The Awakening
Inc. by K. Von Huben 11/2010 Please Introduction When The Awakening appeared in 1899, it ruined its authors career. She was
viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psychological examination of a womans emotional life, and
is not explicit at all. It remains one of the best works ever written to help explain the emptiness that so many women feel as they chafe at the limits
society imposes on them. This paper discusses some of the themes in the novel. Discussion The conflict between self-knowledge and others vision of her: One of the earliest examples is
in the third chapter, when Mr. Pontellier comes home and wakes her, insisting that their son Raoul has a fever (Chopin 12). She is tired and wants to sleep but
her husband says shes a bad mother and neglects the children, despite the fact that she has been with them all day and knows that the boy is quite well
(Chopin). Her husband falls asleep quickly but she remains awake, checks on Raoul (whos fine) then gets up, goes and sits on the porch and weeps helplessly (Chopin). Almost any
woman can relate to this: the accusation of wrong-doing where none exists, the feeling that nothing is ever going to be good enough, and most of all, the way in
which her husband takes her power from her and reduces her to a slave doing his bidding. He doesnt order her to look at the boy, but he makes it
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