Awakening Essays

Two seemingly disturbing novellas, Henry James’ Daisy Miller and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, are really rather the opposite; they are encouraging portraits of the new American woman. Embedded in both stories are the controversies that crossed classes and cultures in the Late Nineteenth Century and the seemingly small characters emerge …

In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening the death scenes of both novels are one of the most essential scenes. There are, in these scenes many major similarities and differences. Both suicides arise from related circumstances. Emma from Madame Bovary, and Edna from The Awakening are two …

Chapter Sixteen 1 How does Edna spend much of her time after Robert leaves? Edna spent much of her time swimming, since she had recently learned to swim and enjoyed the sense of freedom it gave her. “She spent much of her time in the water since she had acquired …

The Awakening was Chopin’s major work and the most recognized in the literary world although added to the list of neglected American masterpieces. The work of an author who, soon after her death in 1904, was remembered, if at all, for the short stories set in New Orleans which she …

In “The Awakening” Kate Chopin intends to illustrate the functions of Creole life. Adele Ratignolle and Edna Pontellier share diverse visions concerning the position of women in Creole society. Adele believes that women should be acquiescent to their husbands and perform their maternal job. She believes that “a woman who …

The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana is one of the most profound, concise and convincing summaries of Mahayana philosophy and metaphysics that this tradition has bequeathed to us in comparison to other Buddhism philosophy. In Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha, transcending his mere physical form, is viewed as a boundless, …

In “The Awakening,” Edna and Adele, the protagonist and antagonist, are both mothers trying to make it in the Creole society. Edna’s character rejects the roles of society given to her and the burdens of these expectations are expressed throughout; whereas, Adele is viewed as a motherly figure who is …

From beginning to end the movie The Awakening, Robin Williams demonstrates his knowledge of the scientific method. The scientific method is a procedure of steps that is used to prove something. In the movie it is used to show that patients suffering from an un-named disorder do have a slight …

In the 19th century, Sigmund Freud created a popular new method of psychological analysis, appropriately titled “psychoanalysis.” Dealing primarily with subconscious impulses and desires, this popular method of evaluation soon spread beyond the realm of science and in to the literary world. In reading The Awakening by Kate Chopin, psychoanalysis …

The Power of Romance Versus Society Hester Prynne, the main character in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, is very similar to Edna Pontellier of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, in that both women contradicted the societal standard and followed their hearts as opposed to the rigid marital structure of their respective times …