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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

Her book, The Awakening deals with the condition of women in marriages during the late nineteenth century. ... She is now "awakening" to her independence and female capabilities, aside from cleaning and cooking. ... It shows her "awakening" to her unique femininity and independence. ... Edna shares one important character with Kate Chopin. ...

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I am writing on The Awakening, and what a mother-woman is. I will discuss why Edna is not a mother-woman and why; also I will discuss the foil to her character Adele and how she is the embodiment of the term mother-woman. The description of a mother-woman from The Awakening is: It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. ... The foil to Ednas character, Adele Ratignolle, is a mother-woman. ...

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In The Awakening, Chopin explores a woman's choice to become independent. The main character, Edna, is dissatisfied with her life and position as wife and mother. ... He loved Kate, and permitted her to have many freedoms other women did not enjoy (The Awakening-Kate Chopin). ... In The Awakening, one can assume that the character Edna is not made to be the most likeable on purpose. ... The character Edna might have been used to show rebellion against common societal roles. ...

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The main character of the novel "A Room with a View " is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman who follows the social convensions of the Victorian middle class which she belongs to. ... In Forster's opinion Italians are more joyful and spontaneous, so Lucy's awakening becames from the country's influence. ... As writer, Foster is known and appreciated because of the accurate study of the characters in his novels; they are always vital and round, full of contraddictions and dubts. In "A Room with a View- his interest is mainly connected with Lucy's development...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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, the main character in each is going through thegrowing up? ... The main characters in each work express different feelings about growing up and the environment in which it occurs. ... The characters inThose Winter Sundays? ... There is an unknown feeling of love between the two characters, but neither knows to what extent one cares for the other. ?... Although his father dies, Sarty feels relieved because he has destroyed the overwhelming image that threatened his awakening identity and at last, fear and terror are gone. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. Yolen compared a story that fictitiously occurred during World War II with Sleeping Beauty, which allowed one of the main characters, Gitl Mandelstein, to indirectly tell her horrifying experiences during the war. ...

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The publication of Cable's s collection of seven stories, Old Creole Days (1879), established the genre of southern local-color fiction with its use of regional dialect, settling, and character. ... The characters in these stories would eventually be known as models for Chopin's most famous literary character, Edna Pontellier. The Awakening allows readers to see the mature and developed novelist, Kate Chopin, come into her own. ... Chopin created a character who did not meet the social "norms" of the day for women; Edna feels that domesticity is more of a prison than a haven and...

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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...

• Word Count: 1749
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many of us identify with a character, or want to be like a character, and we seem to subconsciously follow and live out the tale without ever realizing it. ... I realized that Cinderella is more than a fairy tale, and a vehicle to control children's behavior, it is a story of spiritual awakening. ...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School