The Author Of Her Book
.... be known for your own value.
A second step in analyzing a poem is to identify the main idea or point of the poem. In "The Author to Her Book," Bradstreet uses an extended metaphor to emphasize her dissatisfaction with the publishing of her poems (ll 3, 7, 9, 10), but tells how she cannot turn her back on her own creation (ll 12, 16, 19-24). Thus, Bradstreet conveys the embarrassment she feels due to her imperfect work. The main idea shows throughout the poem as Bradstreet struggles with th .....
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The Author To Her Book
.... sense of shame, just like a mother would feel shame for her child who has misbehaved or a child whose mother has not had proper time to train them in the correct way to behave. Her shame is not necessarily in the fact that she may have made some mistakes in her writing. A mother feels her most shame, not when a child misbehaves, but when a child misbehaves in the sight of others. This reflects badly on the mother- making it look like she does not discipline or try to correct her child. In this same manner .....
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The Awakening
.... to have felt that he spoke to her "directly" and "intimately" (Toth 181). She admired him most for the things that made him the writer that he was. She was intrigued by his escape from "’tradition and authority’ and for having ‘entered into himself and looked out upon life through his own being and with his own eyes’"(Skaggs 205). Eventually Maupassant replaced other writers as her primary influence and "literary model" (Toth 205).
Chopin had such and .....
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The Awakening
.... as their life. Society portrays this to be a woman\'s rightful job and duty.
A woman should act and look \"proper\" at all times. This is what Edna is fighting against in this novel. She feels that, though many women agree with this \"known\" rule, it isn\'t fair. For six years Edna conforms to these ideas by being a \"proper\" wife and mother, holding Tuesday socials and going to operas, following the same enduring schedule. It is only after her summer spent at Grand Isle that her \"mechanical\" life .....
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The Awakening
.... considered outcasts of Anglo- American society. Clement Eaton says that
"the Creoles, to a greater degree then Anglo-Americans, lived a life of sensation and careless enjoyment. They loved to dance, gamble, fish, attend feasts, play on the fiddle and to live without much thought of the morrow." Eaton 252
Creoles were very lively outgoing people because of their comfortable tight society. Activities such as Mardi Gras and Sunday afternoon Mass ho .....
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The Awakening
.... to her house until she became aware that she needed more from her life.
The person whom Edna truly admires is Mademoiselle Reitz, who is a brilliant pianist. Her talent is somewhat lost on the other people on the island. They cannot appreciate her artistry, as does Edna because Mademoiselle Reitz does not fit their idea of what a proper woman should be; she is eccentric and bold. Her music touches Edna to the very core of her being. Something inside her is stirred, and she feels alive like never b .....
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The Awakening
.... mother-woman\" (689). Edna tries to explain to Adele how she feels about her children and how she feels about herself, which greatly differs from the mother-woman image. She says, \"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money; I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn\'t give myself. I can\'t make it more clear; it\'s only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me\" (720).
Similarly to Edna\'s relationship with her children is that with her husband, .....
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The Awakening
.... Edna, provides a much needed recess from her home life and the typical role of a woman and a wife in the 19th century. \"I have a notion to go down to the beach and take a good wash and even a little swim,\" \"before dinner? The water is too cold. Don\'t think of it.\" \"Well I might go down and try-dip my toes in.\"(p.114)
Edna is growing very fond of the ocean and so adorns her swims. No one will keep her from this new pleasure that brings such satisfaction to her life. Edna feels free for .....
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The Awakening
.... out into the ocean. The movie shows just that, omitting two very significant symbols which are present in the novella. The first of these two symbols is the injured bird that’s \"beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water.\" (Chopin, 124) This bird symbolizes Edna’s struggle to become the master her own life as well as her failure to achieve this goal. The other symbol is \"the old terror [that] flamed up for an instant, then sank again.\" (Chopin 124) This is .....
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The Awakening
.... more: \" The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier\'s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir refused to dry them…. Turning, she trust her face, steaming and wet into the bend of her arm and went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms. She could not have told you why she was crying.\" (7-8)
As time goes on we can see that her depression grows ever so slightly, and that it will continue to grow throughout the novel. Such happenings are nothing new to Edna: \" .....
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The Awakening
.... because he was leaving on a business trip. Edna acted immaturely around him again when he gave her half the money he won the night before. ¡§¡¥It will buy a handsome wedding present for Sister Janet!¡¦ she exclaimed, smoothing out the bills as she counted them one by one,¡¨(15). Edna is spoiled by all of her husbands money.
Another example of how Edna¡¦s immaturity allows her to mature is when Edna swam like a baby when she went swimming for the first time, and she had over estimated her power. ¡§Once .....
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The Awakening
.... had set their wives free\" (108). Robert does not want to do something wild and unacceptable to society. In a situation parallel to that of Edna\'s, the only bird that understands the parrot is the mockingbird (Reisz) that \"[is] whistling its fluty notes upon the breeze with maddening persistence\" (1). Because the parrot continues to shriek, people move it away from their society: \"[Mr. Farvial] insisted upon having the bird removed and consigned to regions of darkness\" (23). Society wants to hide the .....
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The Awakening
.... takes the reader through stages of Edna\'s struggle to become an artist showing direct correlation with her becoming and individual and in control of her own self. For example she states how Robert\'s encouragement while she is painting is very innocent in the beginning but eventually lead\'s to the awakening of her passions of her body and her falling in love with Robert. The fact that Edna falls for Robert goes against those societal roles which where followed by some many women of the 1800\'s. Robe .....
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The Awakening
.... she could hope to achieve. With time, Kant noted, the person who devotes their life to reason finds themselves needing a release, in the end despising reason, and eventually pursuing only their true happiness.
After being \"reasonable\" for the twenty-eight years of her life, Edna breaks down. She wants to pursue love and disregard her duty to her husband and children. She falls in what she considers \"girlish\" love with the character Robert. She proclaims to him:
\"I love you . . . .....
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The Awakening
.... end she succumbs.
Edna\'s closest physical brush with death occurs one night at the beach, when the summer residents decide to take a midnight swim. Despite having had a hard time learning to swim, she realizes her ability and swims farther out than she ever had before. She overestimates her power and almost doesn\'t make it back. She has a \"quick vision of death\". The experience scares her, but she has tested her limits and survived the sea for a while. Metaphorically, she has come close to dea .....
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