Essays on The Awakening

Journal Entry Oh dear, I do not know whether to feel guilty or joy after everything I have done up until this point. The only thing could dare make things worse if Léonce would discover these confessions. I never quite imagined that all of these…

The Awakening, Kate Chopin Novel, Fiction, Romance The book best belongs to the romantic and realism movement, published around the romantic era. The author uses romanticism which focuses on emotion, inner life, and the appreciation of nature. The author also uses realism which emphasizes what…

Edna Pontellier’s Self-Discovery Death is the ultimate sacrifice or the last act of rebellion. People die for their loved ones or for themselves, to better the world or to preserve ideals. In Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, Chopin narrates Edna Pontellier’s journey of self-discovery that…

One of the most important periods in the history of American environmentalism lasted through much of the 1960s and early 1970s. The environmental movement during these years has been called the “second wave” of environmentalism (Shabecoff 2001, 7); it followed an earlier “first wave” environmental…

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules, but people following the rules” (Banksy). During the nineteenth century, men were the dominant figures of the household and women were simply there to cook, clean, and look after the children….