Published in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening refused to shy away from its progressive depictions of femininity and womanhood, defying and challenging the status quo. This informative edition explores the theme of women's issues as they relate to The Awakening, investigating topics such as independence, inequality, and identity. Readers are provided with an extensive bibliography of author Kate Chopin, a series of essays the expand upon themes of gender found within the text, and a selection of modern thought on gender and gender roles.

Published in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening refused to shy away from its progressive depictions of femininity and womanhood, defying and challenging the status quo. This informative edition explores the theme of women's issues as they relate to The Awakening, investigating topics such as independence, inequality, and identity. Readers are provided with an extensive bibliography of author Kate Chopin, a series of essays the expand upon themes of gender found within the text, and a selection of modern thought on gender and gender roles.

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2.0, University of Siegen, language: English, abstract: This term paper is about female characters in Kate Chopin ́s work. Kate Chopin was a novelist and short story writer who was born in St. Louis Missouri and lived in Louisiana in the 19th century. Her work shows an interesting and intense point of view on female characters at that period of time. Her stories contain descriptions of feelings, inner beliefs and desires of women. The stories broach issues of marriage, motherhood as well as issues of the society in the 19th century and the role of females at that time. The stories are also marked by the topics identity, independence as well as freedom, which embody important features considering the analysis of the stories and their female characters. This leads to the thesis, that the female (main) characters in Kate Chopin ́s novels and short stories share characteristic features and create a pattern in Chopin ́s work. To properly work on the thesis, the term paper will be based on the analysis and comparison of primary literature by Kate Chopin, while secondary literature will support the statements and analysis. The chosen secondary literature consists mostly of articles, that broach the issues of Chopin ́s work, her female characters as well as themes such as identity, society, independence as well as the role of women at that time.

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 3,0, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”, which is today seen as an “important early feminist text”, [hungry minds], was published for the very first time in 1899. Many readers, mostly men “who wished women would remain at home” [book: criticism], were shocked how Chopin, who was seen as a “regional writer” [book: criticism], could publish such a rebellious novel. Since female writers were supposed to “stick with ladylike subjects” [book: criticism] Edna’s story was not desirable, and men did not want to let women get any revolutionized ideas about ‘New Woman fantasies’. The scandal about ‘The Awakening’ spoiled its chance to become popular at first and so it did not come to public attention till the 1960s, when feminist movements took place. Today it belongs to the canon of important American Literature. The novel ‘The Awakening’ contains the story about a respectable woman of the late 1800s. Between the centuries Edna Pontellier is trapped in New Orleans’ upper-class, the Creole society, with its old fashioned thinking. On the contrary, she is already having new society ideas – the ideas of a New Century’s Woman. During her summer stay at Grand Isles she collects a lot of new experiences and gets to know some new friends, for example Robert, with whom she falls in love with.

Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In Kate Chopin's The Awakening, sexuality, love and marriage are negotiated in connection with the problem of a uniquely female identity which defies the ideas of Victorian prudery and seeks to represent the "new woman". But what precisely is the nature of Edna's awakening? Does the novel really convey a feminist tenor, and does Chopin succeed in exploring new cul¬tural and social options in the sphere of fiction? Three major aspects have to be analysed to il¬luminate this matter, namely adultery, the notion of contract and the question of a female iden¬tity, all of which are directly linked to the organization and stability of society in general and in American society by the end of the nineteenth century in particular. Considering the ubi¬quity of adultery - seen as a transgression against the marriage contract - in nineteenth-century novels, Tony Tanner postulates "relationships between a specific kind of sexual act, a specific kind of society, and a specific kind of narrative" (1979: 12), all of which here imply a defini¬tion of woman's role on a social scale. As far as The Awakening is concerned, however, the case is far from clear because society's ideological hegemony is significantly diminished, though at no point relinquished. It is proble¬matic to speak of Edna's sexual liberation and emancipation for two reasons: firstly, there are no restrictive measures or even social sanctions like ostracism, and secondly, the ending is too ambivalent to interpret it from an exclusively feminist perspective. Nevertheless, Showalter is certainly correct in asserting that "Chopin went boldly beyond the work of her precursors in writing about women's longing for sexual and personal emancipation"(1993: 170); contempo¬rary reviews and the reception history as a whole supply sufficient evidence of thi

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (English Department), course: Engl 373 Southern American Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the role of Doctor Mandelet in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening. I argue that Mandelet is a mixed character – understanding and at the same time misunderstanding Edna Pontellier’s predicament – who portrayed therefore rather ambiguously. Although Chopin is critical of Mandelet and the other male characters in her novel and characterizes them at times negatively, Chopin also reveals that their inability to comprehend Edna’s inner life and her transformation in the course of the novel is not inherent. Rather, Edna’s men are victims of their circumstances and – to use a Naturalist notion – are controlled by outside forces beyond their control.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: Bachelor Degree, University of Algiers 2 (Tam High School), course: American literature, language: English, abstract: The examined novel "The Awakening" (1899), by Kate Chopin, is categorized as a main title in feminist literature. It is considered one of the first novels in American literature that proclaim for women's issues. The main purpose of this thesis is studying how Chopin undertakes the protagonist’s struggle between her non-traditional ideas, her will for freedom, equality with men, and sovereignty in a male-defined society controlled by the late nineteenth-century ideals. This thesis reveals that Edna is able to rebel against her masters and traditions due to massive awakenings she lives and goes through in the novel.

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Department of English & Linguistics), language: English, abstract: In 21st-century America, women fulfil many different roles in their lives: they are daughters and sisters, they are colleagues and friends. Women can be wives and mothers. They can choose freely whether they want to go to university which offers them a wide range of subjects. They can become doctors, lawyers, teachers, scientists, writers, artists, engineers or the next president of the United States of America. Women can determine their future and are free to change the paths they take. To refer to a common idiom: every woman is the architect of her own fortune. For Edna Pontellier, the protagonist of Kate Chopin’s short novel “The Awakening”, which was published in 1899, there are only two roles in her life: the role of wife and mother. She gets lost between the social structures of patriarchy and her willingness to develop her own social identity. Although it seems at first that Edna’s conflict with her expected roles of being a wife and a mother has blocked her way to emancipation, I will argue that it is in fact Edna’s own lack of capabilities and responsibility that provokes her downfall.

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