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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The characters in "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin prove the often troublesome truth that to truly "awaken" to the world around a person is to sometimes reject what it offers or expects.

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Analyzes the roles of parents in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Janet Fitch's White Oleander. Describes how their relationships with their children affects these characters and how they deal with the obstacles the relationships represent.

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Analyzes Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening. Provides a literary analysis of the character Edna evolves in the novel.

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A commentary based off of a passage from Kate Chopin's "The Awakening."

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In Kate Chopin's novel "The Awakening," the author symbolizes the oppression and role of women in early American Society with the role of the parrot and the lady in black, among other literary symbols.

Edna's search for her true identity in Kate Chopin's novel, "The Awakening."

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A comparison of the Victorian era novels The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Both novels portrary the minds of individuals engaged in thinking freely and out of the ordinary for society, and both successfully exposed the Victorian Era's rejection of adulterers.

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Discusses the Kate Chopin story, The Awakening. Analyzes main character, Edna Pontellier. Examines her attempts to break away from tradition, and how the attempt is met with many obstacles in a quest to achieve independence from society.

An analysis of symbolism in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. The use of birds as symbols to represent women, clothing as symbols to represent freedom, and dozens of other symbols offer a much deeper meaning than what appears on the surface of the text, and they give the novel more flavor and an artistic boost.

The Awakening is a story that at first glance the reader may not notice the complexity of the symbolic references to Edna's plight and her escape from it. However, upon further contemplation one may come to respect the intricate signs of her troubles and the way by which she sets herself "free."

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Provides a character analysis of Edna Pontillier from Kate Chopin's "The Awakening."

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