The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a fiction book that tells the life story of Edna Pontellier, a southern wife and mother. ... Her "awakening" begins when a young man named Robert begins loving her. ... I feel the theme of The Awakening is deeper than women's rights, The Awakening shows how suicide is a common choice for people that don't know how to deal with there problems in life. ... The only disadvantage I found in The Awakening was its lack of a good setting. ... But the overall plot and overall gist of the story is appealing. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a fiction book that tells the life story of Edna Pontellier, a southern wife and mother. ... Her "awakening" begins when a young man named Robert begins loving her. ... I feel the theme of The Awakening is deeper than women's rights, The Awakening shows how suicide is a common choice for people that don't know how to deal with there problems in life. ... The only disadvantage I found in The Awakening was its lack of a good setting. ... But the overall plot and overall gist of the story is appealing. ...

• Word Count: 724
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Kate Chopin's The Awakening depicts the difficulties a woman at the turn of the twentieth century must face when she becomes unsatisfied with her existence. ... The awakening of Mrs. ... The struggle that exists between her desire to make her feelings known and the difficulty that she has doing so is apparent during her "awakening." ... The title of The Awakening may refer specifically to one facet of its plot, intended by its author. However, this individual fundamental issue necessitates the emergence of several other "awakenings." ...

• Word Count: 980
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kate Chopin's The Awakening "Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life" ("Kate" 1). ... For example, one of the novels where she heavily communicated these thoughts was The Awakening. ... The fact that this island is near Grand Isle indicates that Chopin is setting her plot in South Louisiana. ... Obviously, feminism is a very prominent trait in Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening. ... Obviously, the traits of Creole setting and language, feminism, and symbolism are exaggerated as common traits in this ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel The Awakening takes place in the late 19th century during the Industrial Revolution and the Women's Rights Movement. The entire basis of the story is around the feminist movement and it quite crucial to the plot. ... The rising action consists of many events that launched her awakening while Edna vacationed in Grand Isle. ... She is a close friend with Edna, and in fact it is her conversation that began Edna's awakening. ... Mademoiselle Reisz is the most influential character to Edna's awakening. ...

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Literary Look at The Awakening The Awakening was written at the end of the nineteenth century. ... In The Awakening Chopin's theme holds true. ... The ending of The Awakening is by no means tidy. ... The characters are important to the plot, but also to the feeling of place: Mlle. ... Through out The Awakening Chopin scatters bits of the French language to add flavor to the story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Edna Pontellier, is the female protagonist whose dreams of freedom are underscored by several symbolic awakenings. Her awakenings impel her to behave freely and think unconventionally. ... Edna's exploration and discovery of the sea is the definitive force responsible for her awakening. Throughout the novel, Chopin cleverly weaves images of birds within the plot as a symbol of entrapment and the individualized yearning to spread one's wings and fly away from confines of human supremacy. ... As Edna progresses in her awakening the more layers of clothing she discards. ...

• Word Count: 2022
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Also, the modern edition shows that the plot can be contemporized. ... For example, both depict the tragic timing of Romeo's suicide and Juliet's awakening. ... The two movies cover Shakespeare's plot and the fate that was in store for the two lovers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Schwartz, also entitled Cathedral, project a sense of contradiction in their illustration of a man's spiritual ignorance and eventual spiritual awakening. ... In the short story, Carver describes Bub's moment of spiritual awakening very intensely and also brings a strong sense of appreciation from Bub. ... The spark for Bub's spiritual awakening is caused by Robert, and this is obvious in both the short story and the video. ... The characters are very similar and the plot is the same. The difference is that the plot thickened more in the short story. ...

• Word Count: 1465
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

(Taylor 160) This was the basic outline for the plot of The Awakening . ... At the time of The Awakening's publishing, society was very different than it is today. ... The Awakening challenged this notion and critics were outraged by it. ... They looked toward Edna as a heroine out of her time for her sexual awakening. ... Recently The Awakening has been compared to the great heroic novels in history. ...

• Word Count: 1805
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

From the days of the cavemen, to the transcendentalist movement of the Second Great Awakening, to modern day, mankind is finding comfort and closure in nature. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, nature is extremely significant in the development of the plot, characters, themes, and main idea. Nature plays a very significant role in the plot development of the Scarlet Letter. ... Also, another important factor that affects the plot is when Chillingworth goes to gather herbs to heal Dimmesdale from the graveyard. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne expertly uses nature to affect the plot developm...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Miller does an incredible job in making Biff's awakening such an exciting portion of the novel. ... Told separately, these memories would still be important, however, by interlacing the developing plot, with the previously occurred events, Miller makes these memories twice as suspenseful and twice as climactic as they ever could have been standing alone. ... Finally, in an awakening unparalleled in the rest of the work, Biff erupts, standing up and accepting that both he and his father are "a dime a dozen-, and that his entire family is living in a surrealistic dream world. ... Through...

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The character Hartright, in The Woman in White, begins the journey along the path of the plot, yet is of a secondary nature to the plot itself. Mary Barton is not as dependent on plot as it is on theme. ... There are two types of plot structure which we can distinguish between - loose plot and organic plot. ... The plot of The Woman in White is highly complex. ... The second epoch displays the awakening of the sisters to their repression, and ". . . rising in resistance, and with new maturity and independence, rejecting the plot that imprisons them" ( Thoms 66). ...

• Word Count: 1673
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Annoying As A Mosquito To most people and alarm clock can be an object of joyful noise awakening them to an exciting new day. ... Sitting on top of my mild, ivory-colored dresser, my alarm clock, with its bold black body and luminous numbers, almost like glaring, green eyes staring constantly at my every move during the day, I can't help but think that it is only plotting against me. ...

• Word Count: 470
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• Grade Level: High School

In order to overcome this rude awakening he has to adjust to the environment whose threshold he enters and fit in with the very eccentric people that contrive it. ... The plot of the book is unusual, although quite exhilarating. ... Written with a unique plot, and due its realistic aspect, it is fair to say that it is an ingenious idea to incorporate a fake religion into a book's main storyline, based on totally original morals and values. ... Kurt Vonnegut's ability to use a very risky plot and at the same time appeal and connect with the reader is what makes this piece of literatur...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Materialism and money are key elements in the plot of the story. The story also explores the awakening and change of innocence of a boy to his obsession with winning to attain his mother's love. ... It is in this part of the story where Lawrence illustrates an awakening in Paul after his mother subtly shuns him when he tells her he is lucky because "God" told him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are some instances that can be related to chance, and these instances affect the plot to form a connection between Romeo and Juliet and chance. ... If Paris had not been there, Romeo would have beheld Juliet's miraculous awakening, and they would have fled the bitter feud that made their love impossible. ... This astonishing ending alone is enough to suggest that the entire plot has an emphasis on chance. Whether you believe in chance or you think you control your own destiny, the plot of Romeo and Juliet is heavily influenced by chance, as opposed to the actions of the characte...

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Once the moviegoer has been previously acquainted with the printed word, he/she has already developed preconceptions regarding characters, plot, and atmosphere of the book, and hence measures the film version against prior expectations. ... Though Wang slightly alters the novel's plot, the changes occur without damage to the novel. ... This signifies the mother's hopes for a new life according to the "American Dream- and simultaneously the rude awakening in which they receive upon their arrival in the United States. ... Although the symbol loses part of its beauty when June's ...

• Word Count: 1403
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Once the moviegoer has been previously acquainted with the printed word, he/she has already developed preconceptions regarding characters, plot, and atmosphere of the book, and hence measures the film version against prior expectations. ... Though Wang slightly alters the novel's plot, the changes occur without damage to the novel. ... This signifies the mother's hopes for a new life according to the "American Dream- and simultaneously the rude awakening in which they receive upon their arrival in the United States. ... Although the symbol loses part of its beauty when June's ...

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This wide intellectual awakening came to be known as the Celtic Renaissance. ... The plot of "The Shadow of the Glen" is discussed which is not original. ... This piece of tragedy is very short and simple so far as the plot is concerned. ... Not a single play of his has an original plot. ... So it can be said that Synge's men, women and nature perfectly matches with the theme and plot of the drama. ...

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An awakening of theses feelings can make a person experience a storm within. ... It is not uncommon for a story today to have a plot, which is focused on unfaithful relationship, in contrast to the fifties when tv and radio portrayed perfect couples and families. ...

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Pope Term Paper # 1 Seeing Mark Twain through Hank Morgan In the political and social satire A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain demonstrates his excessive pride and glory in the political, economic, and technological advances of his time by developing an interesting plot in which an 19th century mechanic travels back to the time of a cruel feudalistic Camelot and attempts to modernize and improve it. ... Awakening into the medieval world of King Arthur and Camelot, Hank Morgan saw political injustice. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Story of an Hour- by Kate Chopin Commentary "The Story of an Hour- is a startling portrayal of a woman's awakening upon receiving news of her husband's death. ... This undermined, twisted end to the plot makes the story satisfying. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The poet exercises intent with the style of poetry they choose, because the occasion of the plot should be reflected in this form. ... As the plot develops, the perspective of the persona is revealed. ... As he comes to the realization that he is waiting in line behind a poisonous snake for the water trough, the spondee in line 23 interrupts his thoughts, awakening the reader with "he must be killed," a line that is impossible to read without the authoritative voice the stressed syllables demand. ...

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During this time, the Friar would send a letter to Romeo to return to Verona in time for Juliet's awakening and take her with him back to Mantua. ... Iago furious with Othello's decision begins to plot against both men to get his due. ... To thicken his plot, Iago gets a hold of a handkerchief that Othello had given to Desdemona as a symbol of his love for her and places it in Cassio's room. ...

• Word Count: 1627
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School