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Title: Kate Chopin


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Kate Chopin The Awakening
1850 - 1904
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Chopin's major work was published in 1889. -
well-established as a national writer - it was
reviewed by critics who universally condemned it
as "shocking" and immoral
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PLOT
It is the story of a young womans gradual
awakening. - sexuality - individual "being" -
longing for an independence - suicide
4
She was very important as one of the earliest
examples of modernism American Literature.
5
  • Romantic elements The Awakening
  • the exotic locale
  • use of color
  • heavy emphasis on nature
  • romantic theme individuality and freedom
  • rebellion against society and death

6
  • Edna - two extremes in life
  • completely alone romanticism
  • frequent inner thoughts
  • memories of childhood
  • the personified sea (nature)
  • the mysterious woman in black
  • the romantic music, dinner party
  • desire to express herself

7
  • Naturalism The Awakening
  • Edna as hostage to her biology
  • She is female (children wife)
  • society dictates behavior
  • "no attempt to suppress her impulses"
  • welfare of her
  • children

8
  • Local Color The Awakening
  • characterizations of the people
  • the descriptions of places
  • fundamental meaning of the story
  • Creole society and its social mores
  • women making choices that create a life

9
STYLE Chopin interested in how one tells the
story as the story itself.
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Perspective multiple Point of view Imagery
11
  • Appearance in reality
  • seen in the New Orleans experience
  • things are not always what they seem
  • things are different to different players.

12
  • All of these formed her style
  • theme based
  • her stories were very short
  • she was experimenting with style

13
  • Womens Rights
  • - Chopin was not a feminist nor
  • a suffragist
  • took women extremely seriously
  • due to her background (mother )

14
  • lack of interest in feminism and
  • suffrage she simply had a different
  • understanding of freedom.
  • - Freedom character of living your life
  • within the constraints that the world
  • makes or your God offers you,
  • because all of us do live within constraints.

15
  • Religion
  • influence of Catholicism
  • she promoted the idea that every
  • human person could be excellent
  • and valuable

16
  • Social Classes
  • Black v. White
  • Rich v. Poor
  • Male v. Female
  • comfortable with difference
  • part of life

17
  • Theme
  • No true beauty without complexity or
  • conflict
  • - tragedy and complexity are needed

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Story information Creole is a white person
descended from the French or Spanish settlers
of Louisiana and the Gulf States and preserving
their characteristic speech and culture. . . .
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  • Three groups
  • whites - highest class
  • free Blacks - emancipated slaves
  • middle class
  • 3) slaves household property
  • the lowest class
  • They had a complex social organization
  • which included foreign groups Germans,
  • Irish, and Spaniards.

20
  • Culture
  • father was dominant
  • his word was law
  • not always a faithful spouse
  • ruled like a king
  • dutiful in the sense he went places
  • with his wife

21
  • Young men
  • given their own quarters
  • entertainment
  • had mistresses
  • (Black or mulatto)
  • couldnt marry them
  • accepted custom
  • marriages business
  • wives passive and innocent lovers

22
  • Young Women
  • needed a dowry
  • marry before 25 years old
  • coming out event (theater)
  • beginning search for a husband

23
  • Other customs
  • weddings on Mon. or Tues.
  • bouquet relatives grave
  • the family signed the register
  • brides home for the banquet
  • bride cuts the cake (pieces to single girls)
  • cake put under their pillows
  • bride and groom spent their honeymoon
  • in her parents house (bedroom 5)

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  • Three kinds of French
  • traditional French
  • Acadian
  • Black Creole
  • Louisiana natives francophone
  • French-speaking
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