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Bear, Sarah M. "The Power of the Phallus in Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Contemporary Feminist Reading." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1187627954.
Full textRossi, Alexandre [UNESP]. "A desarticulação do universo patriarcal em The awakening, de Kate Chopin." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91595.
Full textA presente dissertação tem por objetivo promover uma leitura da disseminação de desarticulações do universo patriarcal empreendida por Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904) — escritora realista norte-americana — em The Awakening (1899), considerado a obraprima da autora. Partindo-se das premissas de uma teoria e crítica feministas de base desconstrucionista, que permite a leitura conjunta do texto e do subtexto, pretende-se fazer uma análise das instâncias estruturais da narrativa em questão (enredo, narrador, personagens, tempo e espaço) de forma a apontar como a autora se utiliza dessas instância para promover uma contestação dos pressupostos maniqueístas e sexistas — ou oposições hierárquicas — que sustentam a sociedade e o pensamento ocidental a partir desses mesmos pressupostos.
The main purpose of this paper is to make a close reading of the dissemination of disarticulations attempted against the patriarchal universe by Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904) — a North-American Realistic writer — in The Awakening (1899), considered the authoress’ masterpiece. Departing from the premises of a Feminist theory and criticism based on Deconstruction, which allows the reading of the text and the subtext at the same time, we intend to make an analysis of the narrative structural instances (plot, narrator, characters, time and space) in order to demonstrate how the authoress uses these instances to build a reply of the sexists and manichaeists purposes — or hierarchical oppositions — that support the Western society and thinking by these same purposes.
Foltran, Carmem Lúcia. "Formação literária e formações sociais em \'The Awakening\' de Kate Chopin." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-28012008-113646/.
Full textIn The Awakening (1899) the protagonist\'s search for individuality, economic and sexual freedom merge with the attempt of finding fulfillment outside her marriage. When these possibilities are frustrated, she is drawn to suicide. This unsuccessful quest carries within itself the historical contradictions which are inherent to the bourgeois ideology, which promises equality for all but eventually fails to keep its promise. These contradictions are present not only in the content of the novel, but in its formal structure as well: the historical and social frame of the novel entangles several breaks in its structure, which also reveal ideological contradictions. In order to analyze this novel, it is mandatory to study the social relationships established in it and its aesthetic implications, as well as the question of the omniscient narrator and of how the narrative unfolds; the limits of the latter as well as the limits of the ideology of modernization.
Rossi, Aparecido Donizete. "A desarticulação do universo patriarcal em The awakening, de Kate Chopin /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91595.
Full textBanca: Nadilza Martins de Barros Moreira
Banca: Ramira Maria Siqueira da Silva Pires
Resumo: A presente dissertação tem por objetivo promover uma leitura da disseminação de desarticulações do universo patriarcal empreendida por Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) - escritora realista norte-americana - em The Awakening (1899), considerado a obraprima da autora. Partindo-se das premissas de uma teoria e crítica feministas de base desconstrucionista, que permite a leitura conjunta do texto e do subtexto, pretende-se fazer uma análise das instâncias estruturais da narrativa em questão (enredo, narrador, personagens, tempo e espaço) de forma a apontar como a autora se utiliza dessas instância para promover uma contestação dos pressupostos maniqueístas e sexistas - ou oposições hierárquicas - que sustentam a sociedade e o pensamento ocidental a partir desses mesmos pressupostos.
Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to make a close reading of the dissemination of disarticulations attempted against the patriarchal universe by Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) - a North-American Realistic writer - in The Awakening (1899), considered the authoress' masterpiece. Departing from the premises of a Feminist theory and criticism based on Deconstruction, which allows the reading of the text and the subtext at the same time, we intend to make an analysis of the narrative structural instances (plot, narrator, characters, time and space) in order to demonstrate how the authoress uses these instances to build a reply of the sexists and manichaeists purposes - or hierarchical oppositions - that support the Western society and thinking by these same purposes.
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Puritis, Melissa. "Speculation on suicide a study of the conclusion to Kate Chopin's The awakening /." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/rp/puritism/melissapuritis.pdf.
Full textKämpenberg, Kristin. "Edna’s Failure to Find Her Female Role in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-914.
Full textIn The Awakening we meet Edna, a woman in search of her female identity. She is uncomfortable in her role as the “patriarchal woman” and has trouble becoming either a “modern woman” or an “emancipated woman” To fully understand Edna’s search one must understand the patriarchal society in Chopin’s works and what it means to internalize this system. Edna searches for a different female role than that of the “patriarchal woman” but she has problems internalizing any one of the roles due to her previous choices, current social position and lack of support in her quest. This essay explores what these previous choices are and why they have placed her in her current position. She has a lack of support, which is crucial if she is to break out of her current female position. Edna’s realization that she cannot obtain a full acceptance in either one of these three female roles finally led to her choosing suicide. This essay also explores why she chooses this final way to resolve her problem. Critics have said that the suicide is not in tune with the rest of the novel, but I will in contrast show how the ending is indeed very much in tune with Chopin’s portrayal of Edna. The confusion that Chopin shows in Edna’s character throughout the novel explains why Edna in the end takes her own life. Our protagonist is a woman who searches for an identity that she cannot find due to choices she has already made and a society which she cannot change, and in that light suicide is a viable alternative.
Backman, Rebecka. "The Awakening of a Modern Self : Self-Discovery in Kate Chopin’s Novel The Awakening." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66965.
Full textDenna uppsats argumenterar för att The Awakening skildrar 1890-talets “moderna kvinna” som uppstod från feministiska idéer samt kvinnorörelsen och utmanade det patriarkaliska samhället med en självständig livsstil. Då jag följer Ringe påvisar den här uppsatsen att romanen har ett syfte att visa processen och utvecklingen av huvudpersonens individuella jag. Men istället för att koppla detta till den transcendentalistiska uppfattningen av jaget som Ringe gör, så kopplar denna uppsats detta till begreppet den “moderna kvinnan”. Genom att argumentera för att Edna utvecklas till en modern kvinna under denna process finner uppsatsen att hon flyttar från den traditionella rollen som en “patriarkalisk kvinna” mot rollen som en “emanciperad kvinna”. Uppsatsen visar vidare att Ednas utveckling och således hennes försök att ändra sin roll misslyckas då självupptäcktsprocessen står under konflikt, vilket resulterar i att Edna tar självmord. Genom att också argumentera för att romanen skildrar en kvinnas jag och processen av en utveckling visar slutligen uppsatsen att romanen är uppbyggd av sju olika steg som tillsammans utgör processen från ”patriarkalisk kvinna” till ”emanciperad kvinna”. Denna process väcker en självmedvetenhet samt en självbild inom Edna som förstärks med varje steg medan hon blir en “modern kvinna”.
Podlasli, Heidi M. "Freedom and existentialist choice in the fiction of Kate Chopin." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/774759.
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Lehman, Suzanne M. (Suzanne Marie). "Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Narcissism in the Suicide and Sexuality of Edna Pontellier." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500307/.
Full textGreen, Suzanne Disheroon 1963. "Knowing is Seaing: Conceptual Metaphor in the Fiction of Kate Chopin." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278960/.
Full textCortez, Jenny. "Female freedom fighters : the impact of Kate Chopin's The awakening and Edith Wharton's The house of mirth on the American suicide discourse from 1870-1900 /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131423543.pdf.
Full textMešinović, Samra. ""By All the Codes which I Am Acquainted with, I Am a Devilishly Wicked Specimen of the Sex" : The Individual/Culture Conflict in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-12.
Full textAt the turn of the 19th century, ideas promoting women’s rights were sweeping across America. During that time Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was published, portraying a young woman, Edna Pontellier, who after several years of emotional unfullfilment in her marriage questions her place as a woman in her marriage as well in society. Edna’s Presbyterian Kentuckian upbringing is in opposition to Catholic Creole society that her husband belongs to. Creole society, at that time, was governed by its unwritten social codes, which were especially clear on issues concerning women’s traditional roles in society in connection to marriage and social duties. In this essay I present how Edna’s emotional awakening and her struggle to achieve independence are in conflict with the cultural norms that exist in Creole society. Also, I argue that the reason why Edna fails in her search for individual freedom is because her awakening is emotional and not intellectual; she lacks knowledge and cannot perceive herself beyond the conventions that limit and oppress her. Additionally, Edna cannot find guidance in any of the other women because they all act within the frames of the role they are playing.
Bate, Holmberg Elizabet. "In Search of Eros and Freedom : Four Portraits of Women by Kate Chopin." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-19111.
Full textIn this essay, Kate Chopin's portraits of women in three short stories, 'The Story of an Hour', 'A Respectable Woman', Athénaïse and the novel The Awakening are studied. It is argued that the outcomes depicted can be seen as increasingly provocative and extreme and that the main conflict and ending of The Awakening is a development and combination of the conflicts and resolutions in the three short stories.
I uppsatsen studeras Kate Chopins kvinnoporträtt i tre noveller, 'The Story of an Hour', 'A Respectable Woman', Athénaïse och i romanen The Awakening. Syftet är att visa att huvudhandlingen och slutet på The Awakening är en utveckling och kombination av de alltmer provokativa och extrema handlingarna och upplösningarna i novellerna.
Rodrigues, Thalita Raquel de Carvalho. "Edna Pontellier: una ou múltipla?" Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2016. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9182.
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The focus of our research is on Edna Pontellier, the protagonist of The Awakening, a 19th century novel whose main character is a housewife who was in search of her own emancipation. Our theory and critical resources are supported by works written by Per Seyersted(1979) and Nadilza Moreira(2003) both references names for Chopin's scholarship.Besides, we used Beauvoir' (1970), Woolf' (2012) and Showalter's(1979) critical studies to help us to develop our understanding of the 19th century social-hisorical women's context in the USA. For the study of representation we used the concept fromAna Gabriela Macedo e Ana Luisa Amaral(2005). To support our analysis on the role of the narrative voice we used Chris Baldick(1991) Our conclusion is that: Edna Pontellier represents a multiplicity of images and they are presented to the reader as the narrative develops itself showing Edna's multiples “awakenings” as a woman in transition.
O foco de nossa pesquisa está voltado para Edna Pontellier, a protagonista da novela, O Despertar; Edna uma dona de casa do século XIX que lutou pela emancipação como sujeito. Nossa fundamentação teórica se apóia nas obras escritas por Per Seyersted (1979) e Nadilza Moreira (2003) ambos nomes de referências nos estudos sobre Chopin. Além disso, usamos Beauvoir '(1970), Woolf’ (2012) e os estudos críticos de Showalter para nos ajudar a desenvolver a compreensão do contexto sócio-histórico das mulheres do século XIX nos EUA. Para o estudo da representação utilizamos os estudos de Ana Gabriela Macedo e Ana Luisa Amaral (2005). Finalmente, para apoiar a nossa análise sobre o papel da voz narrativa na novela nos amparamos nos estudos de Chris Baldick (1991). Concluimos que: a representação da protagonista, Edna Pontellier, não é una, mas múltipla e caminha juntamente com os diversos “despertares” vivenciados pela personagem ao longo da trama narrativa.
Nguyen, Catthuan L. "A Joint Reading of the Color Purple and the Awakening: From Feminism to Womanism and the Significance of Authentic Feminine Space." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/87.
Full textGuay-Weston, Jennifer Ann. "An American Eve : the construction of a modern revisionist heroine in Kate Chopin's "The awakening", Ernest Hemingway's "The sun also rises" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The great Gatsby"." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25518.
Full textBrandt, Annika. "Relationships and Ambiguous Feelings in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23260.
Full textWeber, Susan G. "Undermining Heteronormativity in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1395238012.
Full textShovlin, Christina Marie. "Kate Chopin's The Awakening examining Edna Pontellier in Catholic Creole society /." Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida State University, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/lib/digcoll/undergraduate/honors-theses/341793.
Full textOrr, David J. "The existential quest for exemplary autonomy in three major novels." Scholarly Commons, 1998. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2332.
Full textMohell, Malinen Hanni. "Feminism and Social Transgression inCharlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-25479.
Full textCollman, Elise Marie. "The Discourse of Female Mental Illness in Kate Chopin's •The Awakening." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1462489036.
Full textDawson, Melanie. "From Song to Silence: The Coding of Music in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625602.
Full textEddy, Cynthia Nicole. "Text and Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction and Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626262.
Full textFinnegan, Holly Hartman. "A rhetorical analysis of narration in Kate Chopin's At Fault, The Awakening, and selected short stories." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1334610225.
Full textPosner, Nina. "Against the Pursuit of 'Life's Delirium': Modern Queer Readings of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" and Fanny Fern's "Ruth Hall"." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/898.
Full textTsai, Wen-chun, and 蔡玟君. "A Non-Feminist Approach to Translating Kate Chopin''s The Awakening." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8v8y9s.
Full text國立高雄第一科技大學
應用英語所
96
Kate Chopin''s The Awakening is interpreted as a significant feminist text by feminist advocators. The only available Chinese translation of the novel in Taiwan is translated by Yang Ing-mei and published by Fembooks Publishing House which is noted for its promotion of feminism. This project aims to adopt a non-feminist approach in the retranslation of the text to reverse the feminist elements. It is my intention to attract the attention of general readers who might not have special interests in feminism or who may not read Kate Chopin''s The Awakening as a feminist text. In this thesis, Yang''s translation is first analyzed. Feminist translation strategies proposed by Françoise Massardier-Kenney are used to analyze which feminist translation strategies Yang adopts to interpret the novel. It is found that Yang purposely emphasizes the novel as a feminist text through masculization of Edna, accentuation of Edna''s subjectivity, and the use of punctuation to highlight female subjectivities. Also, some flaws such as mistranslation, inappropriate wordings and typos in her translation are examined, and her elevated expressions are also discussed. In order to produce a translation for a broader scope of Chinese readers, Eugene Nida''s dynamic equivalence are then adopted as translation strategy. Current idiomatic usage and a non-feminist approach are used to translate this novel. In my interpretation, Edna is sensually awakened and she senses her unbeatable solitude rather than the desire for independence and freedom. By accentuating Edna''s sensual awakening and amplifying her sense of solitude, I attempt to view Edna as an ordinary woman and a unique human being. Finally, a small-scale survey is conducted to investigate the reader''s response through questionnaires with four open-ended questions to see how my translation is received by general readers. The ten respondents are five females and five males, whose age ranges from 23 to 32, with college or master’s degrees. The results show that the majority of the respondents prefer my non-feminist approach. Female respondents are able to better perceive Edna''s sense of solitude, while male ones are more aware of Edna''s sensuality presented in my translation. The result indicates that a non-feminist approach to translating this novel could provide readers with different interpretation to appreciate this novel.
Huang, Yu-chin, and 黃郁芩. "In Search of Self Indentity:A Feminist Reading of Kate Chopin''s The Awakening." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76214625390597721728.
Full text淡江大學
西洋語文研究所
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The subordination of women was common in the Victiorian period. Kate Chopin discusses this issue in The Awakening and ehr many otehr short stories.In The Awakening, the heroine, Edna, awakens to her social subordination and her repressed innate charaacter as well. She struggles to find her " self" by claiming her sexual and economic independence. However, she does not escape from the social ideology of her time, and fails to develop for herself a new identity that is independent from othes. To protect her newly-born self, and not trampling her children, Edna chooses to die in the sea, place of rebirth. Focusing on the analysis of Edna''s search for a valid self identity by meansof a sexual and spirtiual awakening, this thesis is divided into four chapters: Chapter One is the analysis on Edna''s two-sided character through the discussion of the differences between the formation of female and male identities. Chapter Two mentions the process and meanings of her awakening. Chapter Three centers around the question of whether Edna''s suicide is a success or a failure. ChapterFour concludes that Edna fails to fully develop a new social identity.
"The Body Bound and the Body Unbound: Rebirth, Sensuality and Identity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Andre Gide's L'Immoraliste." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9412.
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Schaefer, Mercedez L. "Herstory: female artists' resistance in The Awakening, Corregidora, and The Dew Breaker." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7912/C26W89.
Full textFor women in patriarchal societies, life is stitched with silence and violence. This is especially true for women of color. In a world that has cast women as invisible and voiceless, to create from the margins is to demand to be seen and heard. Thus, women’s art has never had the privilege of being art for art’s sake and instead is necessarily involved in the work of articulating and (re)writing female experience. When women seek, through their work and art, to feel deeply and connect with other women, they tap into what Audre Lorde has famously termed “the power of the erotic.” Lorde suggests that to acknowledge and trust those deepest feelings within our bodies is a subversive power that spurs social change. In the following work, novels by Kate Chopin, Gayl Jones, and Edwidge Danticat are linked by their female characters who seek the erotic via their art of choice and, in doing so, resist disempowerment and explore the life-giving nature of female connection. Furthermore, because the authors themselves are engaged in rendering the female experience visible, the novels discussed actively converse with their respective waves of feminism and propel social activism and feminist discourse. Hence, this project provides both a close reading of The Awakening, Corregidora, and The Dew Breaker, and a broader contention on the role of women’s literature in social justice.
Hung, Sheng-fang, and 洪聖芳. "Human Relationships in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67853647871735960497.
Full text國立師範大學
英國語文學研究所
81
Kate Chopin in The Awakening has portrayed at least three kinds of human relationships: the husband-wife relation, the parent- child relation and the relations among friends. In the first kind of relation, the problem of how one human being can be united with another to share intimacy and understanding is the focus. The marriages of Edna and Leonce Pontellier and of the Ratignolles are discussed. The extramarital relation in the novel is examined as a contrast to marital relation. The sea imagery is used to illustrate that a human being can share with nature the intimacy that they cannot achieve with other human beings. In the second kind of relation, four combinations of parent-child relation are studied. My conclusion is that the bond of parents and children is uncuttable. The final relation analyzed in the thesis concerns the different ways of treating friends of the same sex. Male friendship, as reflected in the novel, is not as intimate as that of the females. These two kinds of friendship differ in purpose. Males focus on their maintenance of their masculine image. Therefore, they usually lack the frankness and intimacy toward their male friends. On the other hand, female characters build their relation with their female friends often with the purpose to solve the difficulties they encounter in their relation with males. The study of these relationships reveals that a truly close relation, which involves direct and intimate two-way devotion, among the characters is not established.
Luo, Chi-chu, and 羅季菊. "Free Love in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71516065898132794672.
Full text中國文化大學
英國語文學系
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Abstract In the nineteenth-century Victorian America, women are expected to exist as a saint as St. Mary to sacrifice her whole life to her home, her husband, and her children. The New Women at that time are despised for their ignorance of the importance of the institution of the society and marriage and their selfish demands for female rights, equality, and freedom. The moralists satirize them as ugly, unwomanly, and tasteless women in the comics and magazines. The New Women are pushed to face the dilemma. The protagonist Edna Pontellier in The Awakening is different from the two types depicted above. Awarded of her own blindness to choose the road of her marriage and motherhood, her nature is awakened accidentally in her summer trip to the exotic, romantic, and casual Grand Isle by the open and sensuous Creole society. Like a female animal, she responds to the calling of the nature. To declare her self-ownership, Edna is willing to pay and doesn’t care about the cost. However, in the end, she realizes one thing: being a mother, she has no way to return. The story ends in her free and last choice in committing suicide. The only way to insist on her independence and her love for her sons is the rebirth from death in which she can be liberated in the unlimited sea and be reborn in her carefree childhood memory. This thesis consists of five chapters: Chapter One introduces the historical context of the novel. Chapter Two is the brief introduction of the New Women writing and the Free Love Movement. Chapter Three discusses the significance of the metaphors of liberation. Chapter Four analyzes the dilemma of the self-ownership and the reason why the novel is regarded as morally forbidden; and Chapter Five is the conclusion of the above discussion. All of the New Women style of Chopin’s own life, the phenomena of New Women, and the free love movement are reflected upon the plot of The Awakening. The implicitly forbidden topics of sexuality and adultery force it to be silent. The Awakening cuts down Chopin’s literary life at her time but establishes her reputation in the history of American canons after nearly half of century.
Hsieh, Wen-yen, and 謝文雁. "From Oppression to Rebellion in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/894y34.
Full text國立高雄師範大學
英語學系
101
Kate Chopin was a female writer at the end of the nineteenth-century American literature. She was placed among local colorists in her time. Not until her novel The Awakening was published in 1899 did she gain the fame of being a prominent feminist writer in American literature. Her most famous work, The Awakening, centers on the issue of female autonomy, which is advocated by feminists. The novel voices for women who struggle in the patriarchal society and describes the inner conflicts between their own selfhood and motherhood. This thesis discusses the patriarchal oppression which the protagonist undergoes and her rebellion against it. The first chapter includes the introduction and the literary importance of Kate Chopin. The importance of The Awakening will also be mentioned. In the second chapter, the oppression from the patriarchal society in the novel is discussed, focusing on the women’s restrictions imposed by Victoria Era and the postbellum South. In the third chapter, the patriarchal oppression which the protagonist suffers from her father and husband will be analyzed in detail. The main points are possession, silence and motherhood. The fourth chapter is to discuss the protagonist’s rebellion against her father’s and husband’s oppression. The last chapter will interpret the end of the novel in two different ways.
Wang, Lo-chuan, and 王絡絹. "Rebellion/Seeking Self Identification in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34663242831810696505.
Full text中國文化大學
英國語文學系
100
Since the date of publication of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the novel has raised a great deal of disturbances. The contemporary society held a negative view against the novel and severe attacks on it. The Awakening challenges the long-lasting patriarchal institution, family system, and motherhood as a vocation. At first glance, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening indeed caused some dissatisfaction and offensiveness for the majority of people in that era. Being a mother, however, the protagonist abandoned her husband especially her children in order to seek her illusions for love and the pursuit of self. But once we read the text closely, we will discover that the heroine in fact is pursuing the basic freedom as a human being; nevertheless, under the historical context and social culture, a woman is denied having such rights. Transforming from a traditional submissive woman into a woman pursuing independence and autonomy, Edna confronts not only the long-time male-dominated societal sovereignty but also the almost indissoluble cultural institution. In this thesis, I will explore the contemporary societal environments and ambiences in which Edna lives; the stereotype and expectations toward women’s roles; furthermore, the unique cultural background where Edna visits and who she meets and later trigger her yearning for individuation.
WU, MEI-YING, and 吳玫瑛. "Kate Chopin's The Awakening:a Chinese translation with introduction." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39553132617148160435.
Full textTsou, Cheng-wei, and 鄒政威. "Salvation or Destruction? Speaking the Unspeakable in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26808787386602866390.
Full text淡江大學
英文學系碩士班
100
Many researchers have studied Kate Chopin''s The Awakening from the angle of the protagonist Edna''s sexual awakening, but this thesis attempts to suggest a different approach. My study of the novel has two aims. First, I intend to prove that Edna''s awakening can be interpreted as linguistic awakening, and her dedication to the sea testifies to her wish to return to what Julia Kristeva calls the chora, a state when language is still free, fluid and semiotic without the interference of symbolic order. Second, my thesis aims to show that Chopin is an avant-garde writer, who had pondered upon the same theme of female linguistic freedom long before later feminists Julia Krestiva and Hélène Cixous presented very similar concepts; and that through Edna, Chopin illustrates her view of what women should do to obtain their linguistic freedom. The thesis is composed of three chapters. Chapter One first justifies my reading that indeed the theme of female linguistic freedom permeates the novel, and that the conversations between Edna and other male characters reveal the linguistic violence in phallogocentric language. Chapter Two applies Kristeva''s and Cixous''s theories to analyze how the novel can be understood as Edna''s search for écriture féminine. Chapter Three illustrates how Edna''s mysterious death in the sea can be read as her return to the chora and also as spiritual victory but social defeat.
Liu, Mei-feng, and 劉美鳳. "Woman as Body：Body Discourse and Self-Identity in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22707042037567148008.
Full text國立中正大學
外國文學所
94
The thesis aims to examine how as Kate Chopin criticizes social limitations imposed upon women and tells a woman’s story of fleeing from social burdens, her heroine Edna Pontellier’s quest for her own body and subjectivity remains tied to social and cultural discourses which prohibit her absolute autonomy and independence. In chapter one, I mainly adopt Michel Foucault’s idea of discourse as ways of constructing “knowledge” and “truth” and his identification of woman’s body as the locus of patriarchal struggle for dominance in order to understand how society grasps its control over woman. Under the intricate workings of regulative discourses and disciplinary practices, the bodily individual becomes a self-policing being in public space; the secure sense of self is generated within social sanction and desirability. Also, the concept of a woman’s own body is linked to her self-image and self-identity. The concept of a woman’s own body is formed within discourse; the meaning of her self and life is generated in culture. I also use Helena Michie’s ideas on conventional literary representation of female physicality and sexuality as well as Mary L. Shaffter’s exploration of Creole femininity. By drawing on their ideas, I try to trace Edna’s self-identification and self-determination in the pursuit for her own body and sensual freedom in her Creole society. The specific features of the gendered female body in particular are encoded, represented and bound up with a woman’s possible morality and fate. In The Awakening, Edna encounters a variety of bodily types and dresses, invested with diverse social messages and Edna reads them in ways convention instructs. In chapter two, I attempt to explore how Edna’s new body figure is to be constructed and how her search for a social space proper to her body’s existence is socially bound and culturally tied. In fact, in spite of her struggle to rid herself of the formulas and rituals of femininity, Edna nevertheless appears fated to reenact them so as to secure her sense of herself as a normal, desirable subject in the social community. As Edna departs from her old self, looking for a social space adequate to her newly-emergent self, she can but seek an ideal romantic love for herself as conventions have told her. Such a pursuit is very confining. However, to a woman in this culture, it is hard to avoid romantic love, as her culture has perpetuated it as eternal female fulfillment; it is hard for any social being to cut oneself off from culture. Thus, in chapter three, exploring Edna’s seeking for romantic love, I attempt to investigate how such a seeking is bound with cultural myths.
Cheng, Chia-chen, and 詹嘉珍. "Edna Pontellier's Journey in Search of Identity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98819754319295898497.
Full text國立高雄師範大學
英語教育研究所
86
Edna Pontellier's Journey in Search of Identity in Kate Chopin's TheAwakening This thesis is intended to explore Edna Pontellier's struggles.One summer on Grand Isle with the Creoles, Edna experiences the sense of freedom she had experienced in childhood. Learning toswim, she realizes that she can do what she failed to do beforeand what other women can not do. Her sexual desire has been awakened. When the vacation is over, she goes back to New Orleanswhere she shows different attitudes toward life. She is stronglyagainst the role of mother-woman. Searching for independence, she movesinto a little house of her own. The representative mother-woman Adele remindsEdna of her responsibilities to her family. The musician Reisz encouragesEdna to be strong enough to defy the social norms. Robert can only sees heras Mrs. Pontellier. Leonce can only accept Edna as his wife and his two children's mother. Finding out that these multiple choices fails to fit her,Edna seeks her death in the sea. She can never get away from the biologicalidentity as a mother. Chapter One is a literature review in which I state briefly what criticsof past and present have thought of The Awakening. The novel is ignored forhalf a century because of its theme dealing with adultery. The processconcerning Edna Pontellier's struggling from the role of mother-woman toan independent individual will also be discussed. Chapter Two is designedto analyze Edna's awakening soul on Grand Isle. The emerging sense offreedom appears again afater her first swimming lesson constructed by Robert.Chapter Three deals with Edna's struggling to ignore her responsibilitiesas a mother and a wife. In this chapter, the language with which KateChopin uses to present Edna's attitudes is ambivalent as Edna Pontellier hasfaced a dilemma. In this chapter, different interpretations will bepresented. Edna chooses to die in the embrace of the sea. The sea providesthe possibilities to be alone. There she can get away from the shackleswhich have restrained her. Chapter Five summarizes the main points in thisthesis.
Lin, Hui-wei, and 林揮偉. "Psycho-dynamics of the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Relationships in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11448347720762925362.
Full text國立中山大學
外國語文學系研究所
88
Abstract This thesis proposes to postulate a pedagogic theory--transactional analysis (TA)--to present the psychological dysfunctions that make up the bulk of disorders for which Edna Pontellier, the protagonist in Kate Chopin�s The Awakening, seeks her suicide. By examining the internal psychological processes and the interpersonal transactions of the characters in the novel, this study attempts to delineate the complexity of human personality through a synthesis of individual intrapsychic forces and psychosocial factors as well. This relational system of analysis provides an explanation of psychological development in terms of conditions in the social-contextual system rather than in stages of psychosexual development as espoused by Freud. Adding a social dimension to psychoanalysis, this study hopes to devote equal attention to the individual and to society as a whole. The deployment of each chapter of this thesis is based on four different kinds of analyses that comprise transactional analysis; that is, structural analysis, transactional analysis proper, games analysis, and script analysis. The introductory chapter surveys briefly the criticisms of The Awakening and claims that the novel is best approached psychologically. Important terminologies and concepts of TA are given, with a concluding remark about why insights proffered by TA complement the traditional psychological study of The Awakening. Chapter I examines the psychic structure of the individual character, with special emphasis on the female protagonist, Edna Pontellier. Diagnosis of her ego states enables us to perceive the anomalies of psychic structure which lead to her catastrophe. Chapter II focuses on transactional analysis proper, the social aspects of structure analysis, revealing several types of transactions that lead conversations between the interlocutors to different tensions. In this section, Bakhtin, who defines the novel as �a diversity of social speech types,?will also be discussed to open up some possibilities for seeing the text as the workings of psychical and social dramas. Chapter III furnishes an argument on how Edna builds her lives around certain favorite games which, with their repetitive toxic outcomes, promote her social dysfunctional behavioral patterns. Chapter IV centers on Edna�s harmartia-genic family script, in which she grows up and perpetuates her own role that is incompatible with the cultural script to which the individual of the community is supposed to conform. Then, logical conclusions are drawn about the personality of Edna, whose inability to develop in the face of societal restrictions accounts for her devaluation because she responds to the awakening to a limited and a self-destructive way.
Årlén, Sofia. ""She grew daring and reckless" : Two Perspectives in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Thesis, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-2755.
Full textIn this essay, I will explore two different perspectives in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the narrator’s perspective and Edna’s perspective, as well as Edna’s awareness throughout the novel, which I will describe using a feminist approach. Although the third-person narrator has a deeper insight into Edna’s development than she has herself, I will show that in the course of the novel Edna develops an understanding of her own situation and potential that is closer to the narrator’s. In addition, I will show that Edna’s development is connected to her level of activity in her interactions with the people around her. In conclusion, Edna becomes stronger, less altruistic, and more expressive throughout the novel, and she develops an understanding of her own situation, one that is closer to the narrator’s. After she has awakened and realized her situation, Edna is aware that there is no room for her in patriarchal society. Although she speaks more and more toward the end of the novel, the narrator gets the last word. However, this is only the case because Edna is determined not to think anymore; she is done thinking and has reached the limit of her self-expression in her society.
Nai-nu, Yang, and 楊乃女. "Space, Gender and Power in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen”." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99567839614281035351.
Full text國立臺灣大學
外國語文學系研究所
88
Space used to be treated as a neutral term. However, according to Henri Lefebvre, space is never neutral because it is always intertwined with sociality and historicity. In this thesis, I will deal with two women’s spatial experiences─Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Susan Rawling in Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen.” I will argue that the two heroines’ spatial experiences are deeply influenced and limited by the hierarchical dichotomy of the patriarchal society: the private and the public. The private-public distinction also produces gendered spheres when it naturalizes the private sphere as the women’s space and justifies the public sphere as the men’s world. Therefore, the two heroines’ spatial experiences are confined to their households and are implicated with what Adrienne Rich calls “the institution of motherhood.” I will discuss how the two heroines are psychically and physically constrained in their households by their “happy” marriage and how they make efforts to escape their households. They both find an independent room in pursuit of a freedom that escapes their husbands’ control. The symbol of “a room of one’s own” represents these women’s desire to seek for a women’s space separate from men’s world.
Mei-hui, Lu, and 呂美慧. "Identity Crisis and the Conflict Between Motherhood and Female Subjectivity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11531637728357518564.
Full text國立成功大學
外國語文學系
89
During the late nineteenth century, under the influence of the feminism, a new image of new woman was starting emerging. These independent women also represented a rebelling force against the traditional society. Therefore, The Awakening is created under this literary environment According to her cultural background, Kate Chopin represented some social problems women had encountered in the patriarchal society. In The Awakening, Edna, who attempts to transgress beyond the domestic sphere, is caught in the conflict between the motherhood and female selfhood. However, after seeking for her real identity, Edna seems to lack the abilities to set up a definite concept of their own identities afterwards. Finally, Edna chooses to die in the embrace of the sea. The first one briefly summarizes the reason why did the contemporary society regard The Awakening as a forbidden book, the critical rediscovery of Chopin’s The Awakening, and the introduction to the theory of the space. By using this theory, I will discuss the conflict between the motherhood and female selfhood. In the second one, I will discuss Kate Chopin’s real life and cultural background to make the readers clearly realize the plot of the story and the creation of the characters. In the third one, Edna’s spatial experience will represent how did the patriarchal society circumscribe the female space, the conflict between the public and private sphere, and the conflict between the motherhood and female selfhood. In the fourth one, Edna’s death reflects the conflict between motherhood and female subjectivity. When Edna couldn’t discard the myth of the motherhood the patriarchal society constructed, death is her best choice. The last part is a brief conclusion.
Li, Wan-Ling, and 李宛玲. "Maternity, Female Subjectivity, and Creativity: the Maternal Discoursesin Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34508501175981073757.
Full text國立臺灣師範大學
英語學系
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Motherhood is a very complicated issue in feminism because of themother's ambivalent position between nature and culture. To confrontthe problem of motherhood is to deal with woman's reproduction in termsof the debate between essentialism and constructionism. Many feministsconsider motherhood the root of woman's oppression; however, to talkabout woman's reproductive capability is not to identify with woman'sbiological destiny as prescribed by patriarchy, but to recognize thespecificity of woman's physiology and experience. In fact, the maternaldiscourse is closely related to the construction of femininity, femalesexuality, and sexual difference. This thesis is devoted to examining thedevelopment of maternal discourse in feminism, and to demonstrating thosechanges within motherhood through juxtaposing two women's noevls-- KateChopin's The Awakening and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.Before the postmodern age, many feminists stress the necessity and urgency ofthe pursuit of equality between man and woman, and advocate a completerejection of motherhood. The valorization of maternity leads to not only therepression of woman's sexuality, but also the rigid sexual division of labor.Thus, mothering for woman is nothing but suffering and oppression, and onlythrough complete denial of maternity can woman be emancipated. However, forpostmodern feminists, the pursuit of equality is replaced by the quest ofdifference or otherness. The rejection of motherhood is actually an erasure ofthe sexual difference and an identification with man. Hence, though stillrecognizing the oppressive aspect of motherhood, they turn to concentrate onthe positive side of the maternal experience through advocating the ecriturefeminine and exposing the disruptive power of the maternal body. Thisdevelopment of the maternal discourse from negating to affirming maternity isthe core of the introductory chapter. Chapter One examine the conflicbetween maternity and female subjectivity in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Theconstrast between the mother- woman's partial existence and the solitary andpassionless autonomy of the female artist is woman's dilemma in thepatriarchal society. Although Edna can leave her husband, become economicallyindependent, and explore herselfhood by painting and sexual relationship, shecan never get rid of the maternal image constructed by patriarchy. Edna'sdeath insinuates the incompatibility between motherhood and female selfhoodin the patriarchal society. Chapter Two and Three explore the complexity ofmaternal discourse in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. In this novel,mothering is both painand pleasure, weakness and power. On the one hand,Atwood demonstrates that woman is dehumanized as an instrument of reproductionin Gilead. On the other hand, she reveals the pleasure of the maternalexperience, explores the ambivalence of motherhood, and examines the dichotomybetween mothering and writing. The different maternal discourses in these twonovels best illustrate the development of motherhood in feminism. Motheringmay be suffering and weakness, but it can also be gratification and power.
CHIANG, YU, and 江禹. "Gender Conformity and Rebellion:A Comparative Study of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5fdeja.
Full text逢甲大學
外國語文學系英語文研究碩士班
107
This study aims to explore how gender roles and social expectations influence people’s selfhood and individuality in the nineteenth century by comparing Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence (1920). Chapter one compares three types of women in The Awakening: mother woman, anti-social and self-questioning. Adèle Ratignolle represents a model of mother woman, while Mademoiselle Reisz is an eccentric pianist who pursues her selfhood by violating the gender roles. However, Edna is struggling between Adèle’s ideal woman image and Reisz’s egoistic style. She agonizes herself with the idea that whether to conform to the social expectation or give up everything for her own liberty. Chapter two focuses on the gentleman images in The Age of Innocence, and I divide four male characters into three types: representatives of authority, morality rebel, and convention prisoner. Under the hypocritical society, Sillerton Jackson and Lawrence Lefferts are the norms for New York gentlemen to follow because of their authorities. On the contrary, people do not trust Julius Beaufort’s foreign background but accept his immorality owing to his financial status. Being imprisoned by the strict society, Newland Archer experiences many struggles between his desire and social convention. Chapter three contrasts the similarities and dissimilarities between Edna’s and Archer’s ways of pursuing fantasy and dealing with reality. In conclusion, by analyzing these characters, we can learn that the Victorians were restricted by social mores and morality no matter which gender. These characters have different ways of defending their individuality, and the definition of selfhood depends on different genders and social roles.
Shu-Hui, Hou. "The Search for Self-Identity: A Comparative Study of Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Alice Walker's The Color Purple." 2005. http://www.cetd.com.tw/ec/thesisdetail.aspx?etdun=U0002-0507200518231800.
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