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Chopin's 'The Awakening' & Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn / Lure of the Water
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A 5 page paper looking at the motifs of ocean and river in these two works by Kate Chopin and Mark Twain, respectively. The paper traces these motifs through the two novels, and suggests symbolic explanations for their tremendous power. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Water.doc

Chopin's "Story of an Hour" and Realism
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A 4 page paper which examines Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour" and discusses aspects of realism within. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAchpnrl.rtf

Chopin's Awakening & Feminism
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A 6 page essay that analyzes Kate Chopin's masterpiece The Awakening. The writer proposes that the ultimate question in interpreting this novel to discern why Edna commits suicide. Scholarship has explored this question, and this body of literature suggests that Chopin's evaluation of patriarchy and its effects goes beyond a surface reading that defines Victorian marriage as restrictive and Edna's "awakening" as purely sexual. Close examination of this novel suggests that Chopin intended the reader to see Edna as being psychically scarred by her strict Presbyterian background and cold, patriarchal father. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khcaagfe.rtf

Chopin's Awakening/Edna & Adele & Mme. Reisz
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A 3 page essay that discussing the roles of Adele and Mme. Reisz in Kate Chopin's nineteenth century masterpiece The Awakening, which tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a Victorian era wife and mother who rejects that era's strict interpretation of gender roles as she attempts to fashion a life as an autonomous, sexual individual and as an artist. Ultimately, however, Edna rejects even this alternative lifestyle and commits suicide. To aid the reader in understanding Edna and the motivations for her actions throughout the novel, Chopin contrasts Edna with two very different women, Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khademme.rtf

Chopin’s “The Awakening”: Life in Reverse
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An 8 page paper which analyzes Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” as it tells the story of a woman living a life in reverse, beginning as an elder and moving towards a return to the womb. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: RAchwmb.rtf

Chopin’s Edna and Ibsen’s Nora
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A 4 page paper which compares Edna, from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Nora from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAednr2.rtf

Chopin’s Story of an Hour
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A 3 page paper which analyzes elements of Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAc5.rtf

CHOPIN’S THE STORY OF AN HOUR
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This 4 page paper discusses Kate Chopin's short story, The Story of an Hour. In particular, this paper focuses on the psychological ambivalence that Mrs. Mallard experiences when she hears of her husband's death. Quotes cited from the text. Bibliography lists 0 sources.
Filename: MBchour.rtf

Chopin/Story of an Hour
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A 3 page essay on nineteenth century author Kate Chopin's short story, "The Story of an Hour." The writer explains and discusses the reaction of Louise Mallard to news of her husband's death in terms of the restrictions of patriarchy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khchosth.rtf

Chopin/Story of an Hour
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A 3 page essay that includes a 1 page outline of the essay. At first glance, Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour," which was first published in 1894, seems to portray a woman who is a "monster," as she revels in the death of her husband. However, when the modern reader understands the story within the context of its time, that is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but who realizes that she has been offered an escape from the restrictive patriarchy of Victorian society. Examination of the story indicates the range of emotions felt by Louise on hearing of her husband's supposed death, and it is this range of emotional response that indicates the full implications of Victorian patriarchy. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khcsoan3.rtf