Comparing Kate Chopin And Alice Walker

     Kate Chopin was one of the greatest and earliest feminist writers in history, whose works have inspired some and drawn much criticism from others. Chopin, through her writings, had shown her struggle for freedom and individuality.

Kate Chopin lived during the early 1850s to the about 1905. During this time period women weren't given a lot of freedom. Women were just known to take care of their children and they weren't allowed to work or own anything. Everything that they owned was technically their husbands. Also, women weren't able to express themselves or think for themselves, so the fact that Kate Chopin wrote

Many decades and centuries ago, most women were mere figures in the eyes of society. Women were seen but not heard. Over time however, women have came out of the darkness and into the spotlight more than ever. Women today have made major impacts in all social statuses, such as in the homes, businesses, and in higher levels of organizations. One of the many women that helped women to get to this place in this era, was Kate Chopin.

Kate Chopin was a influential author that introduced powerful female characters to the american literacy world. She was most known for her brilliant book The Awakening. However at that time it received many negative reviews, causing the downfall of Kate’s writing career. Now the book is such a influential story that it is being taught in classrooms throughout the world. This essay will discuss Kate Chopin’s writing career and the impact her writing has on society.

A “radical feminist,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman seems nearly relative to Kate Chopin. These women both have quite similar techniques when it comes to sharing their feminist ideals through words. Also similarly, both historical female writers received inspirational stimulation through their somewhat rocky past. Many aspects of life can lead to the uprising thoughts of a revolutionist.

Kate Chopin is an American writer best known for her novels and short stories. She was born February 8, 1850, in St. Louis, Missouri and she died on August 22, 1904, in St. Louis, Missouri. Kate Chopin was a feminist author. She was the author of two short stories, The Story of an Hour, and The Storm.

Kate Chopin was an American author who wrote novels as well as short stories. Her work was extraordinary and some of her greatest work was based on the feminist movement. Kate Chopin became known throughout the world as one of the most influential writers during the feminist movement. She has attracted great attention from scholars along with students, and her work has been translated into many different languages.

Kate Chopin, a female author in the Victorian Era, wrote a large number of short stories and poems. She is most famous for her controversial novel The Awakening in which the main character struggles between society's obligations and her own desires. At the time The Awakening was published, Chopin had written more than one hundred short stories, many of which had appeared in magazines such as Vogue. She was something of a literary “lioness" in St. Louis and had numerous intellectual admirers. Within weeks after publication of The Awakening, this social landscape that had appeared so serenely comfortable became anything but serene and anything but comfortable.

“Love and passion, marriage and independence, freedom and restraint.” These are the themes that are represented and worked with throughout Kate Chopin’s works. Kate Chopin, who was born on February 8, 1851, in St. Louis, was an American acclaimed writer of short stories and novels. She was also a poet, essayist, and a memoirist. Chopin grew up around many women; intellectual women that is. Chopin said herself that she was neither a feminist nor a suffragist; she was simply a woman who took other women intensely seriously. Chopin believed women had the ability to be strong, individual, and free-spirited. She herself reached out, in

Elizabeth Fox Genovese of Emory University shared in a PBS interview that “She [Kate Chopin] was very important as one of the earliest examples of modernism in the United States or, if you wish, the cutting edge of modernism in American literature” (PBS – Interviews). Kate Chopin published At Fault, her first novel, in 1890 and The Awakening, her last novel, in 1898 (Guilds 924). During these years Chopin wrote numerous other works and most, like At Fault and The Awakening, centered around upper-middle class Creole or French women involved in womanly uncertainties; such as, extramarital affairs, acceptable behavior in society for females, duties as a wife, responsibilities as a mother, and religious beliefs.

Throughout her life, Kate Chopin, actively searched for female spiritual independence, which she discovered and expressed in her writing. Her poems, short stories, and novels allowed her not only to affirm her beliefs for herself, but also to question the ideas of individuality and self-determination during the turn of the century. Unlike many of the feminist writers of her time mainly interested in improving the social conditions of women, she looked for an understanding of personal freedom that challenged traditional demands of both men and women. Additionally, she did not only limit her expedition of freedom to physical emancipation like husbands controlling wives through the traditional expectations of motherhood, but also intellectual

    Kate Chopin was an extraordinary writer of the nineteenth century. Despite failure to receive positive critical response, she became one of the most powerful and controversial writers of her time. She dared to write her thoughts on topics considered radical: the institution of marriage and women's desire for social, economic, and political equality. With a focus on the reality of relationships between men and women, she draws stunning and intelligent characters in a rich and bold writing style that was not accepted because it was so far ahead of its time. She risked her reputation by creating female heroines as independent women who wish to receive sexual and emotional fulfillment,

Katherine O'Flaherty (Kate Choppin) was an author of short stories. She wrote two novels and a hundred short stories in the year 1890. In most of her work she focused on the lives of sensitive, intelligent women. She was born February 8, 1850 is ST. Louis, MO and died August 22nd in 1904. She was married to Oscar Chopin and had 6 children, George Francis Chopin, Fredrick Chopin, Jean Baptiste Chopin, Marie Laiza Chopin, Felix Andrew Chopin, and Oscar Charles Chopin.

Kate Chopin was very focused on women’s issues in society and how they were set differently from men because of their womanly roles. In her stories she focused on women’s freedom, women’s marriages that were not equal, and the roles women had to follow in society. Many of her stories were written about her own life (Timko). Many of her stories were recognized for this but the one that had the most impact was The Great Awakening which was published in 1899 (Timko). The main point in The Great Awakening was the heroine realizing that she would never be able to get out of the roles which have controlled her life since she was born (Timko).

Kate Chopin, being a woman in the nineteenth century, not only wrote a book, but wrote