Heavy Patriarchal Shackles: Edna's Awakening and Disillusion

Kate Chopin's (1899- ) The Awakening gives an account of Edna Pontellie's awakening in soul and body and sing highly of her courage to pursue freedom and independence. But in a patriarchal society, women can only exist subordinate to men and any woman's rebellion is to be defeated. Through a detailed analysis of the process of Edna's awakening, it argues that Edna is not awakened but disillusioned, and she still lives under the heavy patriarchal shackles.

Gone with the Wind and Women's Awakening

Scarlett who was the heroine in the world famous book Gone with the Wind,is regarded as one of the most impressive images in the world literature.Her charm lies in her perverse personality of independence and her spirit of freedom.This essay analyzes the characters of the heroine through highlighting women's social status in the South during the age of Scarlett's time.It could be safely concluded that Scarlett's characters and her courage to face the difficulties during the war reveal the awakening of women's self-consciousness and the realization of feminine value.

The Awakening of Feminist Consciousness

Virginia Woolf in her great novel To the Lighthouse shows her deep concern for women.In this book,she discusses women's spiritual world and the process of the awakening of feminist consciousness,which is represented by Mrs.Ramsay and Lily Briscoe.

Janie's Self-Awakening Journey

As one of the greatest Afro-American writers of the 20th century during the period of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston drew on her own experiences as a feminist Afro-American female to create a story of a female character Janie Crawford in her book There Eyes were Watching God. In the history of literature, it has come to be regarded as a"seminal work in both African-American literature and Woman's literature."(Louis Gates 1993). The main character Janie Crawford is definitely a typical representative of feminism and feminist movement and as a women who successfully achieved her self-consciousness, she has been commenting and criticizing for a long period of time. This research paper will analyzes how Janie achieves her self-awakening in the man-dominated society through Janie's childhood and her three periods of completely different marriages.

Analysis of the Awakening Process of Edna in The Awakening by Using“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”Theory

The Awakening written by Kate Chopin is published for a long time,which stirs up streams of praise for its bold content.Most researchers make analysis on this novel from different perspectives including postmodernism,deconstruction,feminism,binary opposition,and so on.Based on the“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”,this paper lays emphasis on the transition of protagonist Edna from suffering the traditional shackle to pursuing the self-independent.This paper aims to help readers realize an awakening process of Edna and appeals for more concern on the transformation of females’roles.

Beyond Binary Opposition： Reinterpretation of Mr. Pontellier in the Awakening

The American writer Kate Chopin＇s masterpiece, The Awakening published in the late 19th century is one of the classics in female literature. The heroine Edna having the courage to pursue self-reliance and express her self-awareness, is regarded as a ＂new woman＂, while the comments on her husband, Mr. Pontellier are quite negative--He regards Edna as a private property and a sexual tool, leading to her awakening and suicide. In this paper, the author reinterprets Mr. Pontellier with the method of close reading in new criticism, deeming that it is the binary opposition in thinking that leads to the misreading. Mr. Pontellier was just a follower of the tradition and custom. The objective evaluation and reinterpretation to him can help students to develop the habit of critical thinking and the courage to pursue truth is case they form a simple thinking mode of the binary opposition.

The Bird Coming out of the Cage： Edna＇s Awakening in The Awakening

The Awakening was Kate Chopin＇s masterpiece, describing a wealthy businessman＇s wife--Edna＇s confusion, awakening, pursuit, and suffocation of self-awareness in the South of America in the late 19th century. With the method of close reading in new criticism, this paper reinterprets Edna＇s awakening process. Her awakening process is accompanied by the symbolic image of ＂bird＂, representing women＇s situation in the patriarchal society and carrying Edna＇s hope for freedom, love, and self-realization. The application of bird＇s symbolic image reflects Kate Chopin＇s compassion for women in the patriarchal society, making the novel more appealing with its profound humanitarian connotations.

Rude Awakening

I was driving late one night, alone. This was not easy, as twofeet of snow lay on the road. The heck with what lane I was in:I was just trying to keep my car pointed forward. A guy behind me in a *four-wheel-drive vehicle began flash-ing his headlights. I figured there must be some danger ahead orthat something was wrong with my ca. So I slowed down.

Awakening from genuine love in Lady Chatterley＇s lover

Both D. H. Lawrence and his novel Lady Chatterley＇s lover are sometimes prejudicially associated in the minds of the general public with pornography. Yet after meditative reading, we find that Lawrence, through revelation of Connie＇s gradual awakening from genuine love, has made his utmost effort to explore possible solutions to harmonious androgyny between men and women so as to revitalize the distorted human nature caused by the industrial civilization.

Awakening! Awakening?——An Analysis of Edna's Awakening in The Awakening

The Awakening,written by the famous American writer Kate Chopin,is an early feminist literary work.It mainly tells us the process of a miserable woman,Edna's awakening,and in Edna's process of awakening,she experiences misery as well as freedom;she struggles the way to the free and equal world.

The Awakening Women in Tennessee Williams' s Plays

Tennessee Williams is a great American playwright. The heroines in the three plays experienced the changes of times.There are also some common threads that weave their way through these women's lives. They are different from the passive women characters in Williams' s early plays. The growth of women is an important part in the development of society. Through the research on the three plays, the causes, the procedure and the significance of their final awakening can be found.

Awakening of Nora—On Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

A doll’s house tells us a story of a woman,who is treated as a doll-child by her father,then a doll-wife by her husband,eventually realizes her subordinate role at home,so she resolutely leaves the apparently perfect marriage and tries to seek out her own individuality.It questions the entire fabric of marital relationships,and indicts all the false values of the masculine society.

Analysis on Solitary Identity In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

American Transcendentalism aroused New Englanders to individualism enlightenment. Kate Chopin' s The Awakening, un doubtedly voices female quest for identity. The novel was banned by the force of social conventions, for the sociological role it played in form of literature, negotiating female professional identity, social role identity and sexual identity. This treatise analyzes the awakening of women conscious regarding identity and contradiction it brings therefore with social conventions, and argues the inevitable fate of the sex to self-isolation and self-destruction is caused by the prudery conventions. It maintains to review the sociological function of the piece and reconstruct interdisciplinary perspective of literature and sociology, appeal harmony between two sexes.

A Solitary Pilgrimage to Awakening

In this article Kate Chopin's The Awakening is analyzed in psychoanalytic feminist terms,focusing on the themes of maternity versus paternity.These themes are explored in terms of Edna's awakening pilgrimage.The interactions with those people around her make her awakening undergo two stages: the first one is that she awakens to want a true self as a human being;the second one is that she finds that as a female she can never be herself,because she refuses to compromise to the false selves reflected in those people around her.Thus she can only complete her pilgrimage from bewilderment to awakening by suicide,which is regarded as a victory to protect herself in the article rather than a defeat.

Female Consciousness in Kate Chopin’s Works:Analysis of The Story of An Hour and The Awakening

Kate Chopin is widely recognized as a forerunner in the American feminist literature.Based on textual analysis of The Story of An Hour and The Awakening,the conclusions are that although Kate Chopin shows her female consciousness in both of the works,what she really emphasizes in The Story of An Hour is a woman’s longing for freedom of marriage,not the feminist awakening driven by the oppression from a patriarchal society,and Chopin’s feminist view is thoroughly shown in her later work The Awakening.

Angola’s Awakening

BRIC is dominant in Angola’s economic awakening,with China a special and prominent partner Since the end of the civil war in 2002, Angola has moved from the fringe to the center of African economic affairs.Today,Angola accounts for 6 percent of Africa’s GDP,10 percent of its trade and 5 percent of continental-wide investment flows. Importantly,Angola’s economic awakening has occurred in tandem with the resurgence of BRIC(Brazil,Russia,India and China) commercial interest in Africa.As such,Angola is,

Freudian Psychoanalysis——Kitty's Self-awakening in The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil written by William Somerset Maugham was a marvellous novel discussing love, life and spiritual salva-tion. The process of the fallen heroin Kitty's awakening and maturity was profound in the theme of this novel. Kitty was a compli-cated character. Without personal financial independence, she married to someone she did not love. Before long, she had a love af-fair stealthily with another man. After her husband found out the truth and Kitty was abandoned by her lover, she was taken to a de-pressed countryside by her husband, in which Kitty witnessed countless life and death. After all these experiences, she changed alot and achieved self-awakening. The mental world of Kitty was worth discussing. Kitty's id, ego and superego will be analyzedfrom the perspective of Freudian consciousness theory in this thesis, so as to study how she changed herself and had such a hugespiritual awakening.

Quantitative electroencephalography in predicting on outcome of awakening in long-term unconscious patients after severe traumatic brain injury

Objective To explore quantitative electroencephalography in unconscious patients after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) to predict awakening. Methods All cases were divided into two groups(the awake group 19 cases and the unfavourable prognosis group 22 cases).Two weeks after admission the original EEGs were preformed in 41 patients suffering from severe TBI with duration of disturbance of

The Awakening:Rethinking on the Relationships of Women's Self-being,Family Responsibility,and Social Harmony

The Awakening stressed that if women wanted to gain self-being and self-independence they should abandon family and social responsibilities.This thought is too extreme.Women's real freedom and independence could not be gained out of family and social responsibilities.And family responsibilities should not be seen as the fetter to women's pursuit of self-being and self-independence,or it will cause a few problems in marriage and hurt themselves and other persons.Women's real awakening is that there are no conflicts between family and women's self-being.Only based on social harmony and family responsibilities,women could gain real self-being and that is women's real awakening.