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A 6 page paper comparing and contrasting hthe characterization of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening with that of Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. The paper concludes that the heroines' differing fates are defined by the nature of each woman's self-image at the time of the story's climax. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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life the woman is judged by mans law as though she were not a woman but a man" (Ibsen, quoted in Johnston, 97). This extremely perceptive observation not only underlies
his own play, but many other works that would be written in the half-century that followed A Doll Houses publication. One of these is Kate Chopins The Awakening, which, like
A Dolls House, tells of a woman who supposedly "has everything," and yet leaves home and husband to forge a new life on her own. Yet these two works, on
the surface so similar, have very different outcomes for the heroine; and these outcomes are defined by the nature of the heroines self-image at the time of the storys climax.
When one first begins reading The Awakening, it is hard to tell whose story this is going to be. The beginning of the story introduces Mr. Pontellier and his wife,
in that order. The upper-class, privileged Pontelliers are spending the summer at a resort hotel at Grand Isle on the Gulf of Mexico, presumably not too far from Mr. Pontelliers
base of operations in New Orleans. Mr. Pontellier goes to the city frequently to keep track of his financial and brokerage business; Mrs. Pontellier entertains herself by flirting with the
hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so no one is compromised. Although The Awakening takes
place in the French-inspired territory of the southern United States, and A Dolls House takes place in Scandinavia, we immediately perceive that the Helmers are on the same class level
as the Pontelliers, and that the wives share much the same situation. Mr. Helmer is a banker, with important connections in the city; his wife Nora has little to do
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