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Mademoiselle Reisz Madame Ratignolle
1,045 wordsEdna is one of the main characters. She goes on a path of emotional, intellectual and sexual awakening after spending a very pleasant summer with Robert Lebrun Edna's husband Leone spend most of the time away from home on business. He is obsessed with making money and going expensive possessions for his home. He is mild and Edna and Leonce's children, they dont hang on their mother nor their nurse. The are very self sufficient and when leonce goes to new York for a extended time they visit there...
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Adele Ratignolle Edna Pontellier
1,456 wordsKate Chopin's depiction of "The Awakening" is realistic as she develops Edna Pontellier's character from a socially and morally respectable individual to an individual that turns her back on everything closest to her as she births her new self-being. Edna Pontellier struggles between her subconscious and conscious thoughts as unusual feelings stir unfounded emotions and senses. Some of Chopin's characters lend themselves in Edna's "awakening." Through examination of Leonce Pontellier, Robert Leb...
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Kate Chopin Chopin
3,296 wordsThesis: In Kate Chopin? s novel, The Awakening the characters of the Creole men are diverse and different as the character Edna. Most of Kate Chopin? s stories center around a Woman unsatisfied with her position in life, while living in a man dominated society. The three main characters are typical men of that era. Chopin shows the diversity in each of those three characters. Roberts awakening, and the struggle to do what is the right thing. Alcee and how he is carefree and not concerned with so...
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Mademoiselle Reisz Alcee Arobin
10,368 wordsThe novel opens on the Grand Isle, a summer retreat for the wealthy French Creoles of New Orleans. Leonce Pontellier, a wealthy New Orleans business man of forty years of age, reads his newspaper. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lebrun's parrot repeats phrases in English and French and her mockingbird sings in fluty notes. Leonce retreats to his own cottage to escape the birds noisy chatter. The cottages are a scene of bustling Sunday activity. A lady in black walks back and forth in front of the cottages with ...
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Alcee Arobin Edna Marriage
518 wordsThe Awakening by Kate Chopin tells the story of a woman trying to break free of her unsatisfying lifestyle. Several of the characters in the novel are confronted with change or new ideas as a result. Chopin creates several moral decisions for the reader to experience also. Marriage, infidelity, and sexual passion are all themes presented in Chopin's novel. Marriage is a theme throughout the novel. Edna Pontellier and her husband are not the ideal image of happiness or marriage. Edna is unhappy w...
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