CHOPIN

The tragedy and dilemma that Chopin is presenting in her novel The Awakening, is what would happen to a woman in the nineteenth century if she possessed her own self, or her own body? Society in that era offered her only two choices: marriage or death.

An essay discussing Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening in relation to women's fashion. Women's fashions in the 1800s represent the role women played in society.

Discusses how Kate Chopin used the characters Calixta and Clarisse as prototypes for her character Edna.

Negatively criticized for decades, The Awakening eventually became recognized and has endured as Kate Chopin's most famous work. The story illustrates many issues in feminism and family as presented in a French Louisiana setting of the time.

This critical essay provides an overview on how women break social conventions in Kate Chopin's "The Storm" and Mary Freeman's "The New England Nun."

This article provides a great introduction to the Chopin Etudes Op.25. A brief description of each Etude is provided with some practical advice on their technical demands.

A review of Chopin's last scherzo

A review of Chopin's most famous scherzo

Looks at the role of Nature in the work of Kate Chopin.

What Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour" details to the reader is the extent to which women were "trapped" by the very institution of marriage, even if they didn't know it.

Discussing the Character Types in The Story of the Hour by Kate Chopin

Another article that uses common critical approaches to break down and better understand literature, using Chopin's "Locket" as an impetus.

A look at the feminist undertones in Kate Chopin's The Story of An Hour and George Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums.

Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and Gail Godwin's "A Sorrowful Woman" could easily fall under the category of feminist literature. Both short stories display some similarities and differences in the means used to present this anti-myth of the American female.

Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour"

A literary comparison of Kate Chopin's "The Storm" and Pam Houston's "How to Talk to a Stranger."

A biography on Kate Chopin.

This article is about the short story Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin.

This story discusses the way Chopin views women in "Story of an Hour."

Creole Society influenced much of the writing of Chopin, from characters to plot lines to setting. This is an in-depth essay examining how

Kate Chopin wanted to break away from societies conformations and be her own person, independent of men. When Chopin wrote this story, that wasn't a topic that was openly discussed so she received much criticism for approaching it.

Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" discusses the issue of marriage with a far greater depth and diversity of viewpoints than does Kate Chopin's "The Awakening." Austen offers constructive guidance to readers on which approaches to marriage work and which do not.

Chopin defied societal assumptions of her time period and wrote the novel, The Awakening, using attitudes of characters in regard to gender, changes in the main character, imagery and Edna's suicide to illustrate her feminist position.

This is an analysis of oppression of Edna in Chopin's The Awakening. I have also personalized the novel.

Of the many characters found in literature, few need sage advice as much as Edna Pontellier. Furthermore, few are given as much. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, follows a middle-aged woman on her quest to break the bonds of Victorian society--bonds which end up breaking her.

This is an essay about Kate Chopin's short story, "The Storm." It highlights the concept of passion in the story, and how it portrays adultery as a sometimes necessary escape, through the parallel imagery of an actual storm.

Kate Chopin is one of the truly tragic stories that Literature has to offer. Although she did not end her life in a premature suicide, as far too many of our poets and novelists have done, her particular time of living simply was not ready for her.