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- 1. Kate Chopin A Feminist Before Her Time
- 2. Chopin’s Themes • Identity • Self Discovery • Revolt Against Conformity • Revolt Against Social Norms • Sexuality • Motherhood
- 3. The Awakening Characters • Edna Pontellier • Leonce Pontellier • Robert Lebrun • Madame Ratignolle • Doctor Mandelet • The Colonel (Edna’s Father)
- 4. www.KateChopin.org “Her goal was not to change the world but to describe it accurately, to show people the truth about the lives of women and men in the nineteenth-century America she knew.”
- 5. Katherine Thompson “She was socially ostracized as a result of her novel’s publication and died in 1904. It was only until the feminist movement of the 1960’s discovered Chopin’s writings, that The Awakening was applauded as a masterpiece of classical American Literature.”
- 6. Peter Ramos “The ending of Kate Chopin's The Awakening seems always to be read in the context of gender inequality at the turn of the last century. . . . . [Her aim is to] establish the extent to which the patriarchal pressures of that period posed severe obstacles for even the most privileged women.”
- 7. Sean Heusten “Even readers who choose to interpret the novel's final passages as indicating Edna's death by drowning must grant that the novel is willfully unclear about her intent.”
- 8. Peggy Skaggs Her critics’ “bitter denunciation of her fine second novel, The Awakening, terminated her creative period and virtually banished her best work from critical consideration for half a century.”