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Kate Chopin’s Short Stories
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A 6 page paper which summarizes and analyzes three of Kate Chopin’s short stories. The short stories are “The Storm,” “The Story of an Hour,” and “Desiree’s Baby.” No additional sources cited.
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Kate Chopin’s Women: “Desiree’s Baby” and “The Story of an Hour”
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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts Desiree, in “Desiree’s Baby” and Mrs. Mallard in “The Story of an Hour,” both by Kate Chopin. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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Kate Chopin/ At Fault
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A 5 page research paper that looks at Kate Chopin's use of humor in her first novel, At Fault. The writer argues that an examination of this novel demonstrates that Chopin often employed satire as a method for not only dissociating herself from the traditional female literature of her era, but also as a way to lampoon the foibles of society with which she disagreed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Kate Chopin/"Desiree's Baby"
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A 5 page essay that examines Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer argues that in this story, Chopin utilizes irony to prove her point, which is that any disparity between the races is a matter of environment, upbringing and opportunity and not a factor of genetic inheritance. No additional sources cited.
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Kate Chopin/Emotions of Women
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An 8 page essay that analyzes four stories by nineteenth century author Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour," "Ripe Figs," "A Respectable Woman," and "The Storm." The writer argues that Chopin, as a nineteenth century woman, focused her writing on the emotional experience of the women of her era. While many of these problems concern the severe societal expectations and restrictions under which women operated during the Victorian era, other aspects of her writing are more universal, relating to the emotions of women, their longings and their sexuality. By presenting her own unique focus, Chopin portrayed a vision of womanhood that provides a sharp contrast to the desexualized, stoic ideal of her era. No additional sources cited.
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Kate Chopin/Female Characters in The Awakening
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A 5 page research paper t hat discusses how the female characters of Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz are used by Chopin to underscore the characterization of the main protagonist, Edna Pontellier, who experiences a sexual awakening at the dawn of the twentieth century. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Kate Chopin/Heart Disease & Women
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A 5 page research paper that, first of all, summarizes Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." Then the writer offers a brief survey of the problems of detecting heart disease in women before going back to the narrative to discuss how this information affects the story. The writer argues that while heart disease is intrinsic to the narrative, it plays a minor role as the principal point is the feelings of the protagonist toward the restrictive nature of nineteenth century marriage. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Kate Chopin/Region in The Awakening
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A 5 page essay that discusses how Chopin used regional flavor and culture effectively in her novel. The writer argues that region plays a particularly important role in this work as this novel largely concerns the social, psychological and sexual repression of the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, and the changes that she undergoes when she leaves the strict Protestantism of her father's Kentucky home for life with her new husband in New Orleans. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Kate Chopin/Story of an Hour
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A 3 page essay that examines Chopin's nineteenth century short story. Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" (1894) is one of the most anthologized short stories in American literature and numerous students have "grappled" with the story's implications as to gender in nineteenth century American society (Deneau 210). Modern readers debate as whether Louise, Chopin's protagonist, is "a normal, understandable, sympathetic women" or if is she "an egocentric, selfish monster or anomaly" (Deneau 210). This question cannot be reasonably considered outside the restrictive gender stereotyping of that era. When the modern reader understands the nature of Victorian society from a woman's standpoint, it becomes possible to see that Louise is not a monster. She loves her husband, but just as one can be fond of one's jailer, it is nevertheless pleasant to be let out of jail. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Kate Chopin/The Storm
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A 4 page essay that summarizes and analyzes Kate Chopin’s short story “The Storm.” The writer first discusses how Chopin’s perspective differed from the stereotype for women prevalent in the 19th century, which pictures women as asexual. The writer than explains that Chopin wrote stories containing overt sensuality, in which she pictured women as sexual beings and sex as a natural part of all human behavior, male and female. Chopin’s “The Storm” illustrates this point. No additional sources cited.
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