With her revolutionary novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin depicts a heroic character that liberates herself from the suffocating fetters of this male-dictated society, defiantly challenging the prevailing traditions and beliefs by forging and abiding by her own values regardless of the scorn she will receive for behaving in ways deemed inconsistent and inappropriate. ... The growing intensity and intimacy of her relationship with Robert, the careless and young son of Madame Lebrun is the catalyst of her mental, emotional and sexual awakening. ... Edna's awakening, initiated during her summ...

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The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Awakening by Kate Chopin's is a controversial novel full of symbolism. ... She uses many symbolic meanings throughout the story to describe the emotional state of the character Edna. ... Even the names of these birds signify the character's personalities. ... Throughout The Awakening Chopin uses flight and descriptions of birds to express the psychological state of mind of her main character, Edna Pontellier. Another symbol in The Awakening is art. ...

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Edna Pontellier was a literary figure on the edge when The Awakening was written. ... This pulling from the various archetypical, yet very human, characters and settings eventually allows Mrs. ... The gradual breaking up of the pontilliers is a pillar in The Awakening. ... Kate Chopin created a character that was multi-faceted and generally unacceptable in her time. ... The catalyst of Edna's awakening was the variety of characters that all fit their archetypical roles. ...

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In her novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin dares to break free from an oppressive society through her main character: Edna Pontellier. ... The first of her "awakenings" is that of an intellectual sort. ... The two characters are the antithesis of each other. ... Through this action she has shown a true awakening of a new Edna. Though she has had a true self awakening, her true love Robert finds himself unwilling to respond to her advances. ...

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Kate Chopin's The Awakening, is a memorable story of one woman's quest for self happiness and strength. ... The Awakening is best described as a story of a sensual, determined woman who insists on her independence. ... Some of the controversy arises with the different similarities between Edna Pontellier, the main character, and Kate Chopin. ... The Awakening begins at Grand Isle, a vacation spot of wealthy Creoles from New Orleans. ... When she realizes this, she feels as though she has had her own awakening. ...

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Schwartz, also entitled Cathedral, project a sense of contradiction in their illustration of a man's spiritual ignorance and eventual spiritual awakening. ... This weakens the development of the characters. ... 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. ... This is the peak of spiritual awakening for Bub, and when he mentions, "I thought it was somethin...

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The Second Great Awakening was a religious impulse that swept through the nation post-1790s. ... The Second Great Awakening placed religion in the forefront of politics. ... " The Second Great Awakening sparked an era of change, an era of spirituality, an Era of Reform. The Second Great Awakening led many to explore and experiment with a wide array of social reforms as ways to accomplish reform, whether it be through environmentalism, temperance, body reforms, transcendentalism, social utopias, or abolition. ... Cubberley avers that, "No one did more than he to establish in the min...

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Introduction William Shakespeare's A Midsummer-Night's Dream has a unique story structure to be not understood easily without analysis about all characters" actions and dialogs. ... Therefore, I analysis the meaning of this love in each characters" groups and try to find out the message that Shakespeare shows us in this play. ... Just before her awakening, however, she solicits Bottom for her love: "Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed, / While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, / And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head, / And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy... Is t...

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For example, Kate Chopin's, The Awakening, helped usher in the feminist views for women today. ... In The Awakening, Kate Chopin created a character that " apprehended instinctively the dual life- that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions" (Chopin 32). ... Edna appealed more to her primal opposed to maternal instincts in The Awakening. ... One change is how the characters she created never needed men. In The Awakening, Edna used her own money to buy her own house. ...

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In fact, it is more about the inner-journey the main character makes into his unconscious where he has to confront the realities of his true self. ... About all of the places, characters and even actions leads the reader to realise that the journey the main character Marlow is taking will result in some kind of enlightenment for him. ... This quotation directs the reader's attention to Buddha and what he symbolises; "The word Buddha means "enlightened- or "awakened- and is a title given to those who have attained the supreme state of perfect enlightenment and awakening -. Already...

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She was a very popular writer until 1898 when she wrote about even more controversial issues in Awakening. ... It was written in 1898 and was one of the last stories that she wrote before Awakening. ... The beginning of the story presents the reader with two male characters in a country store. ... These characters aren't seen as uncaring, but more as unconcerned about the welfare of the mother. ... Chopin then sets her characters in a classic 'love scene' next to the window. ...

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Furthermore, the strong links between Melkor and Satan foreshadow the role his character plays throughout the mythology. ... This association helps to define Melkor's character and the role he will play throughout the rest of the mythology. ... Melkor's character functions as the source of evil and negativity of Tolkien's world. ... In The Silmarillion men are described as awakening in Hildorien, which is in the easternmost lands of Middle-earth. ... Furthermore, when Man eats from the forbidden fruit it is written that "the eyes of both of them were opened," suggesting a s...

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Almost every character possessed a unique power that led way for much desire. ... Upon the awakening of Lysander he immediately started addressing Helena in terms of extravagant love and admiration; telling her she as much excelled Hermia in beauty as a dove does a raven, and that he would run through fire for her sweet sake. ... Upon awakening, the first thing he saw was Helena, resulting in Demetrius spreading his love to her, through love speech and emotion. ... We first see this through the character Helena. ... There is another set of characters following the extreme power of infatuat...

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Sheldon has his characters deal with too big dilemmas and not any everyday ones. ... By introducing this great question Charles Sheldon started a fad and a great self awakening. Self awakening is when a person realizes that they need to look at their life and change it some how. ...

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From the beginning of the story, we witness the growing conflict between the two characters which is identified from the beginning of the text with the boy's anxiety in the courthouse. ... Whereas the other characters are deprived of their identities, Sarty is in search of his. ... The boy's anxiety is created by his awakening sense of his own individuality and we find that torn between strong emotional attachment to his father and his growing, he needs to assert himself; actually, Sarty' s crisis is a psychological one. ... He feels relieved because he has destroyed the overw...

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A major theme in many movies is a feeling of sympathy for the main character. ... This again creates audience sympathy for this character. Also very Hitchcockian is that the main character becomes the detective. ... However, a recurring set of character archetypes was also apparent. ... This is a perfect example of sexual awakening. ...

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After having the most interesting boredom for the first three minutes of the film, the audience then experiences a sort of awakening when Wes Anderson displays the hotel in its state in 1968 as The Author (Jude Law) changes age and demeanor to his younger more stylized self as well as the lighting and colors are beginning to vary a little more in brightness than they did in the previous two cuts. ... This is when the first emotional tie between audience and character is made because of the feelings brought up from Zero's loneliness as described by the concierge. ... Gustave) shows us th...

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Another reason why I liked the story was because of the Filipino characters. Being a Filipino, I know the culture more or less so I did not have to adjust that much to the characters because I am already familiar in a way with them. ... It was also easy to read and understand for I was "at home- with the story and I felt that I could easily relate to the characters and I felt as though I could understand them better than most of the characters in other stories. ... For me, the highlighted element in this story is the main character, Tinang. ... Tinang just sets herself up again and aga...

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The characters seem lifelike to me. ... Frankie Addams is the main character and protagonist of the novel. ... She must go through a brief and challenging experience of self-awakening in order for her to grow and learn. ... He was really only a shadow of Frankie's character. ... The author repeatedly used colors to describe the characters and their environment around them. ...

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All of the stories illustrated the character's desire for power over others and the consequences brought as a result of power. ... When Hawthorne wrote these stories he showed that the pride and coldness of these characters would leave readers outraged by their thoughtless actions and effects it imposed on their situations. Sin frequently changes a character and affects his/her thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. In "The Scarlet Letter," the sin of adultery has had an enormous effect on two main characters in the book, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmsdale. ... The study of his family ...

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Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. Perhaps these ideas of Great Awakening and even more so of the Enlightenment, influenced Abigail's more independent mind and analytical spirit. ... (Akers 37) Mary Lincoln, however, with her firm formal education background and her ambitious character, saw these notions in a slightly different light. ...

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Now at seventeen years of age I am still that Bubbly little daddy's girl, but In the past 2 years this little girl has had a few, well rude awakenings. ... Ahh yes my rude awakenings, two very heartbreaking events in my life that really touched my emotions. 4 years ago when I was about thirteen years old I was told that My Aunt Michelle, whom was 41 yrs old at the time was diagnosed with Liver cancer. ... In character I am my Aunt Michelle through and through. ...

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The arrival of spring and awakening of nature have been fathomed man as a phenomenon to be celebrated. Hidrellez is a spring festival which has gained a universal character. ... That is why March 21 is a day to celebrate for people living in the northern hemisphere as the symbol of awakening and creation. ...

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Changing Perspective can engender a spectrum of emotions, stimulating the positive effects of growth and awakening or the negative repercussions of distress and hopelessness. ... By being transported back to the 50s, the lead character experiences a change in perspective as his assumptions begin to shift. The use of contrasting scenes of colour and black and white not only effectively convey the different stages of transformation for each character but also highlights the different values and attitude held be characters. ... Colour is used metaphorically to indicate growth and change in charac...

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This wide intellectual awakening came to be known as the Celtic Renaissance. ... "Riders to the Sea" is dissimilar in character. ... A note of poetry is hardy to be found of the character only 'ever thirsty' Mary Byrne is worth mentioning. ... Here the strange character of Owen is Synge's innovation at shows unmistakably the maturity of Synge's power. ... The characters are also finely declined by Synge as is opined by Masefield in his selected pure. ...

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