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An Alternative Ending to Chopin's 'The Awakening'
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A six page paper incorporating an alternative concluding paragraph to Kate Chopin's famous feminist novel. The paper includes an in-depth discussion of why this new ending, in which the protagonist Edna Pontellier is saved from suicide and decides to change her life, is more satisfactory than one in which the protagonist simply gives up. No additional sources.
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Character, Conflict, Theme in Chopin’s “The Awakening”
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A seven page paper looking at this important feminist novel by Kate Chopin. The paper shows how Chopin uses the conflict within the character of the protagonist to develop the novel’s theme. Bibliography lists three sources.
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Children and Maternal Instincts in Chopin’s “The Awakening”
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A five page paper looking at the way Kate Chopin deals with her protagonist’s lack of maternal instinct in her 1899 novel. The paper notes that Edna Pontellier is not a good mother, although she is not a bad woman; yet her inability to fit into the social parameters of domesticity ultimately becomes her undoing. No additional sources.
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Chopin’s “The Awakening” and the Influence of Emerson
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A 6 page paper looking at Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel in terms of its inheritance from Ralph Waldo Emerson. The paper points out that Emerson felt one’s ultimate authority is oneself, and Chopin’s protagonist Edna Pontellier relied heavily on self-direction in developing her life. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Feminism and Change in Chopin and Woolf
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An eight page paper comparing two short stories from the turn of the twentieth century: 'A Respectable Woman' by Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf's 'A Society.' The paper shows how in their treatment of feminism, each refutes the restrictive character of Victorianism and welcomes the Modern age. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Foreshadowing in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'
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A 5 page paper looking at the use of this literary technique in Kate Chopin's story. The paper follows the text closely through the first half of the story, showing how the second half of the story is predicted by the first. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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Gilman's 'Yellow Wall vs. Chopin / Views On Nineteenth-Century Marriage
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A 5 page essay that compares Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-paper' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour.' The writer demonstrates how both short stories reflect the restrictive nature of nineteenth-century marriage which tended to place women in a position where they had no control over their own lives.
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Kate Chopin's 'Neg Creole' vs. Mark Twain's 'Huck Finn'
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A 5 page paper that explores racism and the treatment of the feminine role in these two works. The subject is studied from an analysis of viewpoint and plot in relationship to Neg and Huck/Jim, and the women in the stories. The paper posits that although their intent was similar, Twain could only see the slavery/racism issue from a white man looking in, while Chopin, who identifies with being part Creole, sees the issue from the inside looking out. No additional sources cited.
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Kate Chopin's 'NegCreole' vs. Mark Twain's 'Huck Finn' # 2
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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the racial and societal impacts for Jim and Neg in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Kate Chopin's Neg Creole. No additional sources cited.
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Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'
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An 8 page analysis of the depiction of women and their revolutionary role as was specifically evidenced by the character of Edna in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' (19th century). Complimented by 5 sources listed in bibliography.
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