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Redwan Hossain – American Lit. Research Paper
Abstract
Throughout history, women have suffered many of the subtle yet, diverse forces of determinism-driven society to such an extent that suicide became quite rational in comparison to a life of unhappiness. In this paper, I am going to address the issue of Edna Pontellierâs awakening in Kate Chopinâs The Awakening by analysis of related works of literature such as Ralph Waldo Emersonâs âSelf Relianceâ and Charles W. Chesnuttâs House Behind the Cedars. To some extent, everyone possesses a dual life mentality however, itâs never easy to break free of that outward existence which conforms and so I will thoroughly examine Chopinâs need for Ednaâs awakening but more importantly, what aspects of Ednaâs environment have brought her to this conclusion.
I undergo the extensive cause and effect aspects involved in an awakening because many of the social/cultural precepts involved ultimately lead to the destruction of the individual who drifts away from the crowd; the question becomes whether or not this self-destructive path of an artist is necessary -which I firmly believe to be true.
Abraham Smith
@#$%!
âI ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.â Emmerson says this with malice towards the amount an individual sways him. He refers to the truth as rude, because when we take in the truth we tend to see it as rude. Itâs strange to be straightforward in societies. Our personalities and the way we present ourselves are the biggest lies we present to others everyday. We become censored version of what we should naturally be, rejecting our genius instead of shunning others when they oppose our, church our mind. Censorship of ourself is unhealthy and unsatisfying. Weâve all had the feeling of accomplishment then wonder why we feel it, I mean after all we did conform the way they wanted. This essay is going to show the correlation between embracing your âgeniusâ and having a successful failure. Also how conforming never ends because we can never reach full assimilation. Our mind fights , and has the urge to be disobedient. Essentially Emmersonâs beliefs will be strung through, while showing how Henry David Thoreauâs beliefs from Civil Disobedience go together like an instruction booklet for life.
Kate Chopin as a student of Emerson embraces her genius but society shuns her. Itâs a successful failure because during that time they were ready to cast her from society, yet she continues. Her career had to die in orders for her genius to thrive. The same way Edna had to die by returning to nature. Her suicide represented escape from society. This is going to show what happens when assimilation is successful widespread. When entire nations grow up being taught rules around Religion, Education, and language things that venture outside of that norm start to scare the people with the outward personalities, because it is the inner that questions and the outward that conforms.
Ultimate point? Reader, in the end, should understand….
Abraham Smith
Censors@$%!
âI ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.â Emerson says this with malice towards the amount an individual sways him. He refers to the truth as rude, because when we take in the truth we tend to see it as rude. Itâs strange to be straightforward in societies. Our personalities and the way we present ourselves are the biggest lies we present to others everyday. We become censored version of what we should naturally be, rejecting our genius instead of shunning others when they oppose our, church our mind. Censorship of our self is unhealthy and unsatisfying. Weâve all had the feeling of accomplishment then wonder why we feel it, I mean after all we did conform the way they wanted. This essay is going to show the correlation between embracing your âgeniusâ and having a successful failure. Also how conforming never ends because we can never reach full assimilation. Our mind fights , and has the urge to be disobedient. Essentially Emersonâs beliefs will be strung through, while showing how Henry David Thoreauâs beliefs from Civil Disobedience go together like an instruction booklet for life.
Kate Chopin as a student of Emerson embraces her genius but society shuns her. Itâs a successful failure because during that time they were ready to cast her from society, yet she continues. Her career had to die in orders for her genius to thrive. The same way Edna had to die by returning to nature. Her suicide represented escape from society. This is going to show what happens when assimilation is successful widespread. When entire nations grow up being taught rules around Religion, Education, and language things that venture outside of that norm start to scare the people with the outward personalities, because it is the inner that questions and the outward that conforms. This will help understand how so many people’s beliefs revolve around censorship of ourself. This writing will explain why we do it and why we should stop
(I posted it again by accident, This has the question you asked answered in it, not the other one.
Word count? Ha.
Abraham Smith
Censors@$%!
âI ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.â Emerson says this with malice towards the amount an individual sways him. He refers to the truth as rude, because when we take in the truth we tend to see it as rude. Itâs strange to be straightforward in societies. Our personalities and the way we present ourselves are the biggest lies we present to others everyday. We become censored version of what we should naturally be, rejecting our genius instead of shunning others when they oppose our, church our mind. Censorship of our self is unhealthy and unsatisfying. Weâve all had the feeling of accomplishment then wonder why we feel it, I mean after all we did conform the way they wanted. This essay is going to show the correlation between embracing your âgeniusâ and having a successful failure. Also how conforming never ends because we can never reach full assimilation. Our mind fights , and has the urge to be disobedient. Essentially Emerson’s beliefs will be strung through, while showing how Henry David Thoreauâs beliefs from Civil Disobedience go together like an instruction booklet for life.
Kate Chopin as a student of Emerson embraces her genius but society shuns her. Itâs a successful failure because during that time they were ready to cast her from society, yet she continues. Her career had to die in orders for her genius to thrive. The same way Edna had to die by returning to nature. Her suicide represented escape from society. This is going to show what happens when assimilation is successful widespread. When entire nations grow up being taught rules around Religion, Education, and language things that venture outside of that norm start to scare the people with the outward personalities, because it is the inner that questions and the outward that conforms
Abstract
Since the beginning of time woman were treated as second class citizens compared to men. No matter how hard they fought or educated they got they can never escape the reality that men run this world. Edna was trying to escape her world of riches and servers for a crappy little apartment and real love but got denied and killed herself over it. Rena went from rags to riches and found true love only to have it all taken away because of her race. Even Chopin the woman who wrote The Awaking was shunned by her friends and peers for a made up story. In this paper I will show you that woman will never be able to truly be free and do as they please and that this will always be a man’s world.
Literature used? Purpose for doing?
Literature used to establish argument? Why do this? Ultimately, you want readers to understand what?
In Kate Chopinâs âThe Awakeningâ, the main character Edna Poniteller undergoes an awakening and sadly must die for doing so. Ednaâs reasoning for her death comes from her changed life style, where she is going against what society expects of a woman and in most cases, women are treated as second class citizens When we compare how women were treated in the past versus present day, it is wrong for such treatment to happen but right and wrong are not dictated by virtues but rather the cultural rules set in place by the people before set what is correct or wrong. Another character known as Rowena Walden or Rena Warwick from Charles W. Chestnutâs âHouse behind the Cedarsâ also goes through an awakening and also has to die for doing so. Both these characters have gone against societyâs expectations and while it should be applauded but they are rather women ahead of their times.
To accomplish my task of explaining my reasoning for both these characterâs untimely deaths, I will be analyzing several texts such as âThe Awakeningâ and âHouse behind the Cedarsâ, historical context within each book and other scholarly articles to explain and strengthen my reasoning.
Why do this? What makes the research valuable? And to what end will this be done? In other words, doing this will prove, establish, what?
The paper will examine the life and death of Edna Pontellier, the main protagonist of Kate Chopinâs, The Awakening. Along with that , Ednaâs courage, independence and self-reliance as a woman and her expressions of these traits through her life and her death.
During a time period when women were expected to be docile and subservient, and author were pressured to portray women as such, examining strong and independent women in literature is important in showing the growth of feminism and the existence of female strength and independence throughout all of history.
The paper will scrutinize Ednaâs personal relationships with her husband, the circumstances surrounding her death, as well as a number of secondary sources examining the novel.
While on the surface Edna Pontellierâs life and death are subject to the whims of the men around her, both the choices she makes in her life, as well as its tragic end, are glowing examples of independence and self-reliance.
And how does the death of these characters impact your theory? The author’s eventual fates?
Nathan Yampolsky – American Lit. Abstract
Ralph Waldo Emersonâs ideals are grounded heavily around nature, as he was one of the founders of the transcendentalist movement. In my paper, I will be taking a look at both Kate Chopinâs âThe Awakeningâ and Charles Chestnutâs âThe House Behind the Cedarsâ and provide evidence that Emersonâs ideas were driving forces behind both of the books main characters, and the paths that were taken by them. Specifically that, once we are immersed in nature and become the âtransparent eyeâ we experience an awakening that forever changes us. For our character(s) we perceive this as they take a turn in their lives for one reason or another, and do not turn back. This awakening is something that the characters of the books needed to experience to rid themselves of the worlds they were forced to take part in. One way or another.
And in doing this, what is it you want readers to understand
And? Does Emerson’s perspective work for the author’s examined?
This research paper examines a protagonist, Edna from the book âThe Awakeningâ that part takes in individuality over conformity, sexuality over repression and engages in feminist idealisms at a time where this is socially unacceptable and womenâs rights are little to non-existing. Edna integrates these new ways of living after her âawakeningâ, which brought her a new sense of enlightenment and clarifies her role in society. These is also a parallel drawn to Rena, the central character from âThe house behind the Cedarsâ. This character is not only adversely impacted by her gender in a male dominated society but her racial background as well. Throughout this paper we highlight the unfair treatment and repressive society we once had for women, of which both character revolted against, but ultimately succumbed to. This research can help us understand a dark and oppressive pass for females, which was marked by limitations, oppression and lack of equal rights and guide us into making sure that history is not repeated for not only females but any sector of the population.
Change from “we” to “I will…,” “this research will show…,” “readers will understand…” Proofread. And rework that last sentence because I’m not sure what the ultimate goal for your audience is.
The historical evolution of feminism has been controlling women and there lives as they are abided to men from birth to death. This essay will be examining how author’s put their characters to the test in order to over come and achieve there goal of being a free women. This show’s how characters such as Edna Pontellier from Kate Chopin’s “Awakening” awakens herself to move forward in life without taking another step backwards. I will prove this by examining several pieces of work to achieve one goal and the freedom of woman from a man. To conclude I feel everyone deserves to be free and have individual rights goals they want to achieve. Although rules may be broken, feminism will seize to exist.
Proofread. Why do this? What makes it valuable/important as a researched paper?
This paper will be about the historical evolution surrounding minorities and an awakening on social, political and economic perspectives on being American. One will be examining characters such as Edna and Rena to retell what life was like for them as they awakened. It will also be comparing authors like Kate Chopin and Charles Chestnut who could have chosen to “pass”, but chose not to.
In this mix, I will be weaving in Ralph Emerson and his perspectives on society and how to become an “artist”. This essay will show how far we have come from since the feminist and civil rights movement while awaring the reader that we have much more ahead of us.
What’s ahead? Did the authors succeed, fail, allow their genius to be stifled so we could learn and grow? Did they make sacrifices for us? The notion of genius?
In the awakening by kate Chopin, Ednan Pontelier dies. My research will show that death was the only way to Ednaâs awakening. Her choices were very limited. Whether she stayed with her lover or went back to her husband and her children, she would have still been in a manâs possession. This is a contraindication to her awakening. She does not want to belong to any man! She wants to be free to do what she wants and not to be seen as a property. Her drowning herself was her liberation from her social female roles such as marriage, families, society, and rules. My research will incorporate articles, literature reviews and research papers about feminism in the 1800âs and why artist like Kate Chopin and Ralph Waldo Emerson believed in wakening and self-reliance. In order to gain her freedom, she does so by returning to nature and drowning her soul away. Readers will understand from my research that in the 19th century, society heightened a meaning to what it meant to be a woman and Edna Pontelier did not care. As she says to Robert â I suppose this is what you call unwomanly; but I have got into the habit of expressing myself. It doesnât matter to me, and you may think me unwomanly if you likeâ.
How does Rena’s experience as a woman, a black woman, differ? How is it the Same? The author’s realities? Ultimately, reading your research will provide what? Why is your work relevant?
Kate Chopin, an admirable feminist literature novelist created a storyline that is now considered purely ingenious. Enda, a women with an unidentified purpose, showed the world the importance of self-identity and reliance. Chopin illustrated what self-identity meant for women, and the adversity women still face with they find self-identity. Acknowledging that Enda was raised Louisiana Creole, she wasnât domesticated and motherly; however, Enda didnât have that epiphany until meeting Madame Reisz and Robert Lebrun. Political Catholicism influenced intense antagonism both socially and culturally. Chopin recycled the metatextuality of Ralph Waldo Emersonâs Self-Reliance philosophical ideologies. Emerson believed in the teachings and social practices of Self-Reliance and inner-happiness. More importantly, Emerson like Chopin, highlights the correlation between happiness and societal views. Society will not be accepting if youâre not directly mirroring their ânon-happinessâ and inner unidentified self-identity. On the other hand, to delineate more specifically, in order to check with your inner-self, you must check with nature and allow nature to guide you throughout life. Life is something that is beyond the unknown, and itâs a controlling force that must take its course.
Chopin did not consider herself a feminist. So what does that mean? Edna was not raised creole, which is part of the dilemma, no? Adjust voice to say, “I will…, this research shows…I will establish…”
This paper will be about society’s influence on all types of people, and how they were seen as “different” just because of there looks, thoughts and culture. This essay will not only tackle how society forced blacks into slavery, natives out of their homes but how women rights were rejected for many years. I will give examples of people who were “different” to society and didn’t conform and there consequences like Sitting Bull, Edna and Reena and even their creators Kate Chopin and Charles Chesnutt. I will also go in detail with Ralph Emerson’s Self Reliance, where he first question society and how to not conform and be yourself. This essay will inform readers how life was for people who were shunned, isolated and rejected and to prevent these events from happening again.
And you will do this why? This essay is valuable/necessary because…. This is worth doing for you as critic because you want to prove/explore…?
This research paper will compare and contrast the lives of Edna Pontellier of Chopinâs âThe Awakeningâ and Chestnuttâs protagonist, Rowena Walden. Through careful examination of the setting and historical context of the texts, the development of the âAwakeningâ of the two heroines, and the Emersonian philosophical under pinning of the story arcs; we will reveal how the differences in the narrative point to inconsistencies in transcendentalist thought. Using the texts of Chopin as a case study on how to live an Emersonian life, we will explore the choices of Edna and contrast them with that of Rowena who will exemplify the âGolden Meanâ or compromise position between the extreme transcendentalism in practice and complete subservience to society. In addendum to the texts of Chopin and Chestnutt, we will also be exploring Emersonian texts, primary historical sources of the period to provide context, and Aristotelian philosophical writings. This research paper will challenge the wisdom and practicality of Transcendentalism as philosophy. While the Emersonian concepts of Self-Reliance read well in theory, in practice it can lead to delusion and unproductive if not destructive sense of self-importance or hubris.
I like it. Just change some of the “we” voice to “I will…” Or “this research will…”
Society places many unjust judgments on many of its members. Itâs natural to fear what you donât understand to come to term with that different element we seek to control it. People tend not to like different so we make laws, create socially structures such religion to define what right and whatâs and wrong. But whatâs wrong with being different. Ralph Emerson say âTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishmentâ. The literary works Ralph Waldo Emersonâs âSelf Relianceâ Kate Chopinâs The Awakening by and Charles W. Chesnuttâs House Behind the Cedars are a testament to that. These works as well as the artist themselves gives an example of what an individual who seek to break though the social subjection of society, will face and what will result. Using these work as well as various other sources I will present an argument why it is right that to embrace your individuality and accept your differences than to make the world define you, even if it means that you might lose it all in that choice.
Proofread. Adjust voice slightly and say, “I will show…,” “this resaerch will examine…” Why is this researched essay worth doing?
Society places many unjust judgments on many of its members. Itâs natural to fear what you donât understand to come to term with that different element we seek to control it. People tend not to like different so we make laws, create socially structures such religion to define what right and whatâs and wrong. But whatâs wrong with being different. Ralph Emerson say âTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishmentâ. The literary works Ralph Waldo Emersonâs âSelf Relianceâ Kate Chopinâs The Awakening by and Charles W. Chesnuttâs House Behind the Cedars are a testament to that. These works as well as the artist themselves gives an example of what an individual who seek to break though the social subjection of society, will face and what will result. This research will examine the cause and effect of the awaken of Edna Pontellier of Chopinâs and Chestnuttâs protagonist, Rowena Walden as well the authors writing of these pieces, using these work as well as various other sources I will present an argument why it is right to embrace your individuality and accept your uniqueness. Than to be what the world wants you to be, even if it means that you might lose it all in that choice. This research will show the importance of individualism and why it needed in a world that does seek standardize its members.
Ralph Waldo Emerson explains that is easy to live after the worldâs opinion and conform to ideals and norms. A great man, however, is the one who keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude in a midst of a crowd. Yet, as a nonconformist, the world will whip you with its displeasure. This paper will address the essence of self reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks about. I will be examining the struggles of Edna Pontellier and Kate Chopin as the artist of her story, The Awakening. This will show how both women are criticized for finding their genius. I will explain how they did as Emerson spoke of and showed their independence in a midst of a crowd by analyzing the ideals of society in the setting of the story. I will analyze the lack of opportunities females had that caused Kate Chopin and Edna to be criticized for their artistry. Thus, this will explain the similarity between Edna and Rena from The House Behind The Cedars, as she too is opposed by society but in a different time period. This will prove that although both women die in their stories and Kate Chopin was criticized, the fact that they are nonconformists and sought what is true to them in controversial times shows their true genius and that is better than conforming.
Are the time periods that different, or is it their positions in life and circumstances that set the characters apart? And if they achieve Emerson’s path, must we all die to “awaken” and discover our genius?
This paper will be covering the evolution of feminism and how certain social and cultural perceptions supposedly speak to the universal sense of individualism. In Kate Chopinâs book, âThe Awakeningâ, she shows that Ednaâs marriage is a huge barrier to happiness and individual fulfillment because she is forced to conform to the typical cultural living; man has complete control of women once they are married. As you read this paper you will begin to see that living in the 1960âs was a very hard time for women. I want you to understand the hardship and restrictions that women had to face.
âThe Awakeningâ explores one woman’s desire to find and live fully within her true self. Her devotion to that purpose causes friction with her friends and family, and also conflicts with the dominant values of her time. Edna’s death ultimately foreshadows the women of the 1960’s that were not going to settle for conformity.
Because of the feminism movement women are now allowed to expand their careers and businesses that they never were able to have before. Women now have power in government and they hold high and powerful jobs. They have gained their independence from a male dominated society and are rising to become less dependent on their husbands for financial support.
How does Chopin speak to the 1960s? What’s the connection between the turn of the century and the explosion of feminism? And how does the lit address your last sentence since the character and author died when they sought “independence”? Why do this? Why is your research important?
This paper evaluates the introduction of feminism in âThe Awakeningâ in that time of society and societal values of women and how they think they should behave. In this context, the second section elaborates women struggling to live up to strict cultural standards from a society that is male dominant. Then, through Chopinâs focus on Mademoiselle Reisz as a suggested role model for Edna, I will display how it allows her to see that the life of freedom and individuality that she wants goes against both society and nature. In the last part, I will explain the significance of how Chopin used three common relationship so she can explore Edna’s reaction to each. This will allow the reader to get an understanding of how these relationships advanced Edna self-knowledge and how it contributed to her awakening.
Adjust voice to “I will… My research will ultimately show… This paper will explore…” Why do this? What makes this worth your time and worth being read? How will you prove your argument?