Essays about: "Chopin"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 essays containing the word Chopin.

  1. 11. Feminism and Social Transgression inCharlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Hanni Mohell Malinen; [2015]
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  3. 12. A Sea Change. An Examination of the Imagery in Chopin's The Awakening

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Frida Jäverfelt; [2014-02-06]
    Keywords : Kate Chopin; Edna Pontellier; imagery; symbolism; feminist; female emancipation; individuation;

    Abstract : The Awakening is Kate Chopin's tale of a woman seeking her individuation and selffulfillment in a male-dominated society – it is a novel about female emancipation. The aim of this essay is to examine the imagery in The Awakening in order to see how the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, and her struggle for individuation are depicted. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Oceanic Feeling : A Freudian Reading of Katherine Chopin's The Awakening

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Maria Gudmundsson; [2014]
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    Abstract : Abstract Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a book about women’s position in late 19th century, showing a woman’s attempt to find liberation and emancipation in a restricting, male-dominated society. Much is revealed already in the title. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Process of Awakening: An Analysis of Transitivity in Kate Chopin's Novel The Awakening

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Åsa Hellström Andersson; [2010-10-15]
    Keywords : Transitivity; Systemic functional linguistics; Kate Chopin; The Awakening; Stylistics;

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  6. 15. In Search of Eros and Freedom : Four Portraits of Women by Kate Chopin

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Elizabet Bate Holmberg; [2009]
    Keywords : Kate Chopin; The Story of an Hour ; A Respectable Woman ; Athénaïse; The Awakening; portraits of women; provocation; Eros; freedom; New Woman fiction; Kate Chopin; kvinnolitteratur; provokation; lust; frihet;

    Abstract : In this essay, Kate Chopin's portraits of women in three short stories, 'The Story of an Hour', 'A Respectable Woman', Athénaïse and the novel The Awakening are studied. It is argued that the outcomes depicted can be seen as increasingly provocative and extreme and that the main conflict and ending of The Awakening is a development and combination of the conflicts and resolutions in the three short stories. READ MORE