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Adele Ratignolle: Kate Chopin's Feminist at Home in "The Awakening"

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Adele Ratignolle: Kate Chopin's Feminist at Home in "The Awakening"

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Kate Chopin not only incorporates feminist views into her literature she also incorporates the drastic measures taken by some women. Kathleen Streater states in "The Awakening", “Edna chooses suicide rather than a life confined by societal expectations, and her shocking resolution provokes passionate reactions in readers, as extreme acts will do.” Edna makes the most horrific and devastating measure possible in order to avoid the life she did not desire. The American Dream is usually not looked at like this, but she is sacrificing herself in order to reach what she desires even if that is death.

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Kate Chopin's Narrative Techniques and Separate Space in

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3 Through Kate Chopin’s writing, she empowers women to question their societal roles. The American Dream is based on making sacrifices and working hard to achieve what you desire. In a scholarly journal Xianfeng Mou says, “she is concerned with representing the emotional, spiritual, and artistic awakening of a female artist battling against prevalent cultural norms of wifehood, motherhood, romance, seduction, and conventions of female writing.” As discussed in this quote, Chopin focuses on the battles women face. She is empowering women to fight these battles even though they might have to make sacrifices and work hard. They might have to sacrifice their image in society if they question their societal roles. Both the sacrifices women make and the hard work the women put in relate back to the American dream in a positive way.

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Emily Toth talks about Kate Chopin and her defining feminist views in a book review. “Toth credits the French women of Chopin's family with nurturing her independence and helping her repudiate the innocence (ignorance) that was thought to be a feminine virtue.” Toth is emphasizing how Chopin, through her writing, defies feminine virtue. Chopin defies the negative thoughts around women's purity and how it affects women in society. The French women in Chopin's family shared similar views and pushed Chopin to be strong, persistent and refuse to accept sexist views. These powerful and controversial views showed what Chopin wanted for women's equality, including an equal role in The American Dream.

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About Gale OneFile: High School Edition Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students. Don't know how to login? Depending on this location's preferences, the log-in process could include your library card number, a student or user ID, or another provided password.

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Kate Chopin’s writing supports the American Dream by including feminsit views and opinions, empowering women to question their societal roles, and incorporating drastic life changes or experiences into her litituature.