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    The Awakening Essay Both of the female protagonist’s from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God experience a similar plight throughout each person’s respective novel. Chopin and Hurston chose specific symbols used within each narrative to represent these characters as they struggle to understand who they are in life. The two most notable symbols contained within The Awakening are the caged birds and the use of the sea. The most prominent of the two is

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    2-14-13 Awakening of Edna Pontiller It can be said that the main character of “The Awakening” Edna Pontellier‚ “awakens” in several ways through the course of the book. But in the grander‚ broader sense‚ they are all sub-instances‚ mere symbolism to one major occurrence – her mental‚ emotional and physical severing of and escape from the cultural shackles that which suppress her soul‚ and cripple her fulfillment‚ sense of self-worth‚ and burning desire to live and be respected as an individual

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    Blue Block 3 APUSH 11/23/2012 2002 APUSH DBQ During 1825-1861‚ or the Antebellum Era‚ there were many different social‚ religious‚ institutional and educational reform movements. Though‚ the leaders behind these goals were aspiring for a surreal goal‚ a utopian society‚ what they formed was a vastly improved nation. Some of the reform movements were the temperance movement‚ the 2nd great awakening‚ abolitionist movement‚ and women’s rights movement. These reform movements

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    The Awakening 1. What features make The Awakening a "local color" story?  The features that make it a “local color” story are the ways that the lives of the characters is depicted. The story makes it seem as though everyone knows each other‚ almost as if it is a very small town. 2. What customs and beliefs of Edna Pontellier’s society are significant in relation to her psychological development? The customs and beliefs in her society are significant to her psychological behavior

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    because of their gender. Men often felt that they were superior to females because they wanted to prove their dominance. The Awakening was written in 1899. Therefore‚ the book shows how it was normal for society to have men that felt superior to women’s. The author‚ Kate Chopin‚ uses Edna and her husband‚ Leonce‚ to demonstrate the expectations a man had for his wife. In The Awakening‚ Kate Chopin uses details‚ diction‚ and imagery to convey a condescension tone through men. One method Chopin uses to

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    Unit 2 FRQ A- About 1.5 million Swedes and Norwegians immigrated to the U.S. during the 1910s. The opportunities in America‚ the poverty in the homeland‚ and the religious persecution in the united Sweden-Norway were a few of the pull factors influencing the Swedes and Norwegians to immigrate to the U.S.  A vast Jewish population immigrated to the U.S. during these times as well. The rise of Nazi Germany was a pull factor because the Jewish population wished to leave due to religious persecution

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    Robert D. Rossel’s “The Great Awakening; An historical analysis” categorized the Awakening as a social change. That the Great Awakening changed the religious‚ economic‚ and political movements through social change. The revival was made possible by the new institutional and ideological beliefs allowing for the establishment of the religious movement and the impact it had on the political and economic change. He believes that the Great Awakening was caused by the strain in New England causing for

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    ####### #### Professor AMH2010 20 November 2013 The First Great Awakening versus the Second Great Awakening When trying to define the great awakening‚ one would say it’s a period of time that consisted of numerous religious revivals that took place in American colonies during the 18th and 19th century. A revival is an upturn in the state or strength of something. However‚ when talking about the great awakening a revival is used in a spiritual context because it means an escalation in spiritual

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    they are expected to become something they aren’t. The act of being the “perfect” person puts pressure on people even when they don’t want to change. Sometimes going through a certain situation can show who a person really is. In the novel The Awakening written by Kate Chopin she portrays Edna as someone who is trying to break free of the title “the perfect mother-woman”. Kate Chopin uses several literary devices such as‚ symbolism‚ her characters and use of language to show how hard it is for

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    argument is more strongly supported by evidence found in Kate Chopin’s late 19th century novella The Awakening? Most analyses of the protagonist‚ Edna Pontellier‚ explain the newly emerged awareness and struggle against the societal forces that repress her. However‚ they ignore the weaknesses in Edna that prevented her from achieving the personal autonomy that she glimpsed during her periods of "awakening". Kate Chopin chooses to have Edna take a "final swim" as evidence of her absolute defeat as

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