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Description: ISBN 0486277860 / Author: Kate Chopin / Genre: Fiction / A minor masterpiece, The Awakening was a scandalous book when it arrived from ... more
The Awakening - Kate Chopin ... the turn-of-the-century presses. With a heroine who found her husband dull, married life dreary and confining, and motherhood to be bondage, this revolutionary book is still relevant to many.

Newest Review: ... more about the ones whose names are mentioned than about the others, but they don‘t change, they never surprise, their ... more

 ... function is merely to interact with Edna thus showing the different facets of her character. I see the nameless lovers and the woman in black as symbolic whose significance becomes clear only later on. Robert Lebrun is visiting his mother who runs the holiday facility as he does every summer playing with the guests‘ children and flirting with the ladies. This summer he‘s the constant companion of Edna who‘s only two years older than he is. Edna is not a Catholic Creole but a Presbyterian from Kentucky and feels a bit of ...more

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Crowned Review The Awakening - Kate Chopin: Dangerous Desires (1188 words)
by - written on 19/01/07 (Very useful, 1099 readings)
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the Soviet Union, is often quoted with the sentence, “He who comes too late is punished by life." Kate Chopin (1851 - 1904), author of The Awakening experienced after its publication: “She who comes too early is punished by life.“ Chopin began writing when she was widowed at the age of 32 to support herself and her six children, her stories and sketches were published in magazines and were well accepted as was her first novel At Fault, she gained national recognition during the 1890s as a member of the local-colour movement focusing attention upon the distinctive regional cultures of America. She lived in New ...  Read the complete review

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Crowned Review Ahead of her time (1244 words)
by - written on 14/06/06 (Very useful, 480 readings)
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Introduction A friend recently suggested that I read this book. I didn’t really have any idea what it was about; finding out that it was about a woman trying to ‘discover’ herself in the late nineteenth century did not make it any more appealing. I was surprised to find that the book was actually very compelling and beautifully written. Sadly, it caused such a scandal in American society for suggesting that a woman could have another life outside of her husband and children that Kate Chopin was discouraged from writing any more novels. The story Edna Pontellier, a young woman belonging to the New Orleans Creole community, is married with two young ...  Read the complete review

 

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