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The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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The Awakening Lesson Plan
38,929 words, approx. 130 pages
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Author Biography

Name: Katherine Chopin
Variant Name: Kate Chopin
Birth Date: February 8, 1851
Death Date: August 22, 1904
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: author

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Biography of Katherine Chopin
12571 words, approx. 41.9 pages
Kate O'Flaherty was born into one of St. Louis's most prominent families. Although Kate O'Flaherty Chopin later said she was born in 1851, Emily Toth discovered during her research for her forthcoming biography of Chopin that the future writer's baptisma...
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Biography of Katherine Chopin
7708 words, approx. 25.7 pages
Kate Chopin introduced to the reading public a new fictional setting: the charming, somewhat isolated region along the Cane River in north central Louisiana, an area populated by Creoles, Acadians, and blacks. Beginning in the 1960s, her fiction was also...
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Biography of Katherine Chopin
7131 words, approx. 23.8 pages
Kate Chopin introduced to the reading public a new fictional setting: the charming, somewhat isolated region along the Cane River in north central Louisiana, an area populated by Creoles, Acadians, and blacks. Beginning in the 1960s, her fiction was also...
 


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The Awakening - Kate Chopin - 1899 Summary
9,031 words, approx. 30 pages
The Awakening - Kate Chopin - 1899 Introduction When Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) was published, there were significantly fewer women writing fiction than there are today. Authors of the time did not generally address a woman's...
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The Awakening Summary
3,797 words, approx. 13 pages
The Awakening by Kate Chopin Kate Chopin was born as Katherine O'Flaherty on February 8, 1851, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1870 she married into the Creole family of Oscar Chopin and afterward lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kate Chopin came to know...
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The Awakening Information
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The Awakening is a short novel by Kate Chopin, published in 1899. It is widely considered to be a proto-feminist precursor to American...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
A rude awakening for the PM - it's Norman's novel
02/01/1994: 834 words, approx. 3 pages
WHAT has Norman Lamont been doing while out of office? Well, like many another MPs, his thoughts have turned to novel-writing, and with a Mills & Boon-type name like Norman Lamont, who could blame him for edging towards the romantic fiction end of the...
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The Stranger
The Awakening
06/09/2005: 363 words, approx. 1 pages
Some 19th-century novels can handle having a shrieky, clappy gospel interlude inserted into their middles. (I quite liked the seaside choir in the pseudo-Bollywood movie Bride & Prejudice.) Others, like Kate Chopin's wispy, mystical novella The Awakening, fall to pieces at the first hint...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Cristina Giorcelli
15,273 words, approx. 51 pages
In the following essay, Giorcelli argues the Chopin's ambiguities in The Awakening support both her own and her protagonist's “cyclical view of existence.”
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Critical Essay by Barbara Claire Freeman
14,802 words, approx. 49 pages
In the following essay, Freeman explores the notion of the sublime in The Awakening.
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Critical Essay by Patricia S. Yaeger
12,118 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Yaeger argues that language, not sexual liberation, is the element that makes The Awakening a “transgressive” novel.
 
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Awakening
4,080 words, approx. 14 pages
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, constitutes a frank exploration of how a woman of end of century XIX wakes up to the limitations of her life and initiates a transformation in which she tries to reach sexual and emotional independence. Married with a businessman quite greater than she, the protagonist, Edna Pontellier "despierta" to the fact that it is not living for itself, but to obey to the social rolls of wife and mother dictated by the time and the social class.
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Essay Grade: 97%
Women and Desire: the Unwillingness of Society to Permit Desire in Women
3,412 words, approx. 11 pages
Essay gives an analysis of the roles of women in literature such as "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin and "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Portrait of a Madonna" by Tennessee Williams.

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Essay Grade: 98%
The Awakening: Robert, Leonce, and Alcee
2,279 words, approx. 8 pages
The significance of Robert, Leonce, and Alcee, as the Freudian Id, Ego and Superego in the novel "The Awakening," by Kate Chopin. The conflict between these forces eventually leads to Edna's tragic demise.
 


The Awakening Study Pack

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The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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