Summary of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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• Publisher: GetAbstract AG
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9798887270661
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Kate Chopin's The Awakening is widely considered one of the most important and beautifully crafted novels of the turn of the 20th century. At the time of its publication in1899, however, many saw Chopin's exploration of a married woman's quest for fulfillment and autonomy as morally deviant. Critics condemned it as much for its portrayal of female sensuality as its unorthodox perspectives onmarriage and motherhood. Surprisingly modern in style and psychology, Chopin's unique blend of matter-of-fact narration with lyrical interludes continues to draw readers and raise incisive questions about the nature of desire and the complications of freedom.As the heroineEdna Pontellier sheds the influences and obligations laid upon her from without, Chopin offers both a pointed critique of the limited social roles permitted to women in Americaand a sympathetic exploration of the challenges inherent in anindividual's search for existential truth and autonomy.

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