Kate Chopin was a controversial writer in the late 1800s who wrote about women's rights and feminism. Her novel The Awakening was widely criticized for its themes of a woman rejecting traditional roles but is now recognized as an important early feminist work. Chopin used powerful and surprising endings in her stories to send messages about women's place in society and to provoke thought in her readers. Her works provided a representation of women's experiences during the time period in which she wrote.
The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the adjacent lake.
In this presentation, I have presented the biography of Kate Chopin and give some background information about the last novel she had written, "The Awakening." Summaries by chapter are also included, as well as the themes and symbolisms used in the novel. This is only the first part. The second part deals with the approaches in criticizing the novel better.
The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for his help. As he arrives, the narrator notes a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building and into the adjacent lake.
In this presentation, I have presented the biography of Kate Chopin and give some background information about the last novel she had written, "The Awakening." Summaries by chapter are also included, as well as the themes and symbolisms used in the novel. This is only the first part. The second part deals with the approaches in criticizing the novel better.
NCorreia, Master And Margarita, 2010-03Nuno Correia
Master and Margarita - An Interactive Audiovisual Adaptation of Bulgakov’s Novel
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Has literature ever had the power to change historical trends and the state of society?
Someone who is in love with literature will say - oh yes, sure, writers and their works have great power.
However, sober thinking would change this assessment of the enthusiastic reader. Because if literature had ever fundamentally influenced history and social movements, both history and reality would have been different.
But, on the other hand, the influence of literature should not be underestimated. It is a fact that some literary works influenced the change of laws and social rules, as well as the general perception of the public on certain important issues.
Therefore, if literature could not fundamentally change history and direct its course, it certainly had a huge emancipatory role in various periods of the development of society and culture.
In this presentation, only some important writers and works, mainly novels and plays, are listed in this sense. A real investigation would require a much more extensive study.
The presentation used paintings by great American painter Edward Hopper. His painting "American Locomotive" is on the first page of the presentation.
Women writers of the romantic period finale: Rewriting the Masculine WorldJoshua Gnana Raj P
The Romantic Period was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement, it is called such since, the period brought in many changes which include the rapid spread of the ownership of clocks with minute hands throughout the late nineteenth-century. This period made lawyers to condemn old sundials as childish. It was also the time when culturally as well as socially, termed as an age of transition from gothic writing characteristics of the second half of the eighteenth-century with a particular appeal to a new generation of women readers, to a more patriarchal aesthetics in which the popular styles of earlier ages were dismissed as unmanly.
This was the period in which men writers flourished. Yet there are many female writers who never had their fame glow as their male counterparts. This paper will deal with the hidden female writers of the Romantic era. This paper will also mainly focus on the rethinking of the individual and the Romantic society at large.
2. Kate Chopin: Capturing her Audience
• She was a controversial
writer.
• Her work was greatly
criticized in her time
period.
• She stood up for
women’s rights.
• She had powerful, often
surprising, endings.
• Her stories were a
perfect representation of
historical fiction.
3. A Feminist
• Kate Chopin was brave to
write about women’s rights
in her time period.
• A majority of her stories
are pointing out how
women need to have a
soul.
• With men dominating the
society, she knew some
women were being held
back by there husbands.
• She was fighting for
equality between men and
women.
4. Literary Criticism
• Her novel, The Awakening,
was not very popular at first
because of the amount of
controversy in it.
• Critics widely condemned it,
calling it tasteless and
disagreeable.
• Chopin didn’t write another
novel but continued to
publish short stories
regarding women’s rights.
• Her novel was out of print for
several decades because of
the backlash but is now
known for it’s importance and
quality in early feminism.
5. Intriguing endings
• People were very
interested in how her
stories ended.
• You would just be left
shocked. This made you
want to re-read the story
and pick up on hints you
didn’t before.
• Not only did the whole
story send a message
but the ending is what
pulled the story together.
6. Historical Fiction
• Many of Kate Chopin’s
stories are written
about her time period.
• She includes social
manners and
prejudices of her time
period (late 1800s).
7. Works Cited
• Wyatt, Neal . "Biography of Kate Chopin." Biography of
Kate Chopin. N.p., 1 Jan. 1995. Web. 16 July 2014.
<http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/katebio.html>
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• "Kate ChopinBiography." Biography, Kate Chopin, The
Awakening, The Storm, stories. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 July
2014. <http:/www.katechopin.orgbiography.shtml#career>.
