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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The feminist reader should identify with female characters and their concerns. ... (i) "Feminist critique," - examining how women characters are portrayed, exposing the patriarchal ideology implicit in the so-called classics, and demonstrating that attitudes and traditions reinforcing systematic masculine dominance are inscribed in the literary canon. ... Critical Strategies Feminist Criticism functions to facilitate the awakening of human consciousness to the gender-delimiting elements of human experience that are often dramatized in literature. ... The Socio-Political Approach of what is ...

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Dalloway: Although these novels do not explicitly state feminist doctrines, the main characters in both are independent women who are either unsatisfied with their present lives and husband or are the matriarchal leaders of their families and Brahman of their social circles. ... Dalloway, the protagonist, is a pseudo-antagonist who subjects his wife to the passive abuse of neglect as does the husband in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. ... Woolf strove for universality with the sexual duality of her characters, women's liberty and truth, none of which are mutually exclusive. ... To ac...

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