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“The Awakening” by Kate Chopin was an excellent and brilliantly written novel. The novel was written in 1897 to 1899 and was first publish in 1899. Overall the “The Awakening” is a fiction book that relates, reflect, and correlate the view, role, and feminism of women during the nineteenth century in America. In addition, the novel is an early vision of woman’s work that is recommended to all reader to read. The novel is set in Grand Isle in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana where wealthy Creoles go on vacation. The main propagandist Edna Pontellier is on a summer vacation with her husband Léonce Pontellier and her two sons. Léonce is absent with his family because of his work. Because of Léonce absent Edna spend time with her friend Adéle Rationale. Adéle is a married Creole who is spectacular because of her elegance and charm. As the novel progress, Enda and …show more content…

In addition to people who love to read book that reflect about naturalism and romanticism. When reading this novel, it explains the idea of women gaining their freedom and desire, but suffer consequence when achieving those. The novel did an excellent job to emphasize of freedom of self-expression. The negative side about this novel is that many readers can struggle to understand what Chopin is telling because of the language barrier. During this time, it was written in old English and many readers today cannot comprehend what Chopin is trying to say in the novel. Besides, of how the novel is written it did an excellent job to expresses and influence of naturalism and romanticism. From this novel as a reader and audience, they will think about how women were treated and viewed in society. Lastly, they get to see the positive side women achieving their freedom, sexual desire, dreams, and love. However, then show the negative side of achieving their freedom as they suffer

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