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e Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as a landmark work of early feminism, generating a mixed reaction from contemporary readers and critics.The novel's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity makes The Awakening a precursor of American modernist literature; it prefigures the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway and echoes the works of contemporaries such as Edith Wharton and Henry James. It can also be considered among the first Southern works in a tradition that would culminate with the modern masterpieces of Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, and Tennessee Williams.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 21, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1514639645
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1514639641
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 960L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.22 x 9 inches

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Born and raised in St. Louis, Kate Chopin (1850-1904) moved to Louisiana to marry the son of a cotton grower. A mother of six by the age of twenty-eight and a widow at thirty-two, she turned to writing to support her young family. She is best known today for The Awakening (1899), a portrait of marriage and motherhood so controversial it fell out of print shortly after publication and was not rediscovered until the 1960s.

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TWL

Louisiana version of Anna Karenina

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023

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I purchased this book after seeing it flash on the screen in the Netflix series "1899." Despite being written 125 years ago, the themes it explores are incredibly relatable to the present day. I happened to read it shortly after watching the film "Anna Karenina" (the Keira Knightley one) and found the plotline and themes very similar. I never read the original novel by Tolstoy, but it was written in 1878, so around the same time as The Awakening. Quite sad that with the limited options back in that era, both women chose to end their lives after finding love outside of their marriages. Anyway, The Awakening is a quick read, and well worth it.

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024

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You can never go wrong with a Kate Chopin novel! This is my second novel from this author, and I adore her writing. 10/10 would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about regional realism and womanhood.

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Gabrielle Grosbety

A layered look at the price of freedom and the molding influence of societal roles

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2020

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In Kate Chopin’s novella, The Awakening, Chopin explores feminism, free-will, independence, freedom, and societal roles all through the complex lens of Edna Pontellier, who is capricious, sensitive, and has a rich interior life, as well as exists as an outlier who doesn’t fit in to the mainstream ideas and ideals of the time. All throughout, Chopin paints a vivid picture of the type of repressed society women are living in in wealthy Louisiana and uses symbols as a way of expressing different ideas about this repression. Using symbols comes to be a clever way of communicating the underlying nuance, complexity, and struggle of a woman’s life during this time, except Chopin doesn’t outrightly reject all aspects of convention as she depicts a woman other than Edna who is happy in her marriage and as a mother in the novella, which means that Chopin doesn’t think entirely in black and white.

The main symbols Chopin uses are birds and the sea. Chopin uses a parrot trapped in a cage who frantically cries out repeatedly to represent Edna, which points to Edna being constrained in the society and societal role as a wife and mother she lives in. She parrots what she hears around her and has to pretend, for the sake of the role she is playing at times, that she doesn’t have any original thoughts of her own that go against what is expected of her. The sea, conversely, is where some of Edna’s most profound awakening takes place. It is where she finds her freedom and vibrant cleansing and hangs on to her inner power as a woman. The sea is a wonderful illustration of freedom from repression because it is open, seemingly infinite, and gloriously expansive. The most complicated part of Edna’s awakening, though, is that her awakening affects other people, especially her children, who she can’t completely neglect caring for just because she resents the structure and expectations society has placed on her. She can’t just throw away her responsibilities as a mother entirely and completely because she herself is unhappy and unfulfilled personally. However, she does quite a lot, and is also prone to having lustful, intense crushes on unattainable men and this gets the better of during her marriage, which lacks passion and excitement. Ultimately, Chopin creates a complex moral character study through these examinations of a woman who doesn’t fit the status quo and whether that woman is a good mother or not? The book at its heart questions thematically what do outliers, like Edna, do in a society that is at odds with them and their beliefs?

Edna finds an especially powerful, impassioned awakening of her sexuality and desire when she’s around a man named Robert that reminds her of being younger and this is an example of how she sometimes too quickly gives in to all her whims and desires. She longs for him in ways she hasn’t longed for her husband. And when her husband questions to himself if Edna is becoming increasingly mentally unstable it is really just because Edna is brushing aside the woman she used to be because in fact that was never truly who she authentically was. It’s only another role she played. I also found it interesting that a man in that time, similar to even some men in this time, automatically jump to the idea that a woman is crazy if she starts revolting against their control or acting in a way that upstages their power. That is why there is a great deal about who controls Edna and how and why. Her mobility or lack of mobility is interwoven in, which makes for an important achievement on Chopin’s part in being progressive for her time for recognizing and dissenting against a woman’s lack of freedom. I genuinely enjoy the fact that Edna is complicated and goes against the norms through incremental rebellions and embraces who she is as I believe there’s a lot to be said for that. I find her actions not morally reprehensible but morally ambiguous because she is all the more human for feeling stifled, stuck, and overall being conflicted about how she feels as a wife and a mother. Overall, this book was a special read and also as intoxicating to read as it felt for Edna to explore what freedom she did have and then lost, whether it be self-imposed through her mind or imposed by the overwhelming power of society.

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Ashley Nelson

Awakened within oneself

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2022

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What a lovely read, I nearly regret waiting this long in life to complete it. Sitting here the day after reading this book in a mere span of a night, I'm still spellbound. Oh, how it leaves you hanging! Passionately written and fantastic. One of those books that stirs up something deep within oneself, maybe waiting to get out. Maybe a tear or two. This book came at the perfect time in my life. A love affair to be jealous of. I'm left gripping this truly great and inspiring, yet heartbreaking tale of a young woman truly finding herself yet bound to the harsh realties of her time.

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Mike D.

My dogs loved the book!!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2023

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Not gonna lie, my dogs really enjoyed the book. From what I could see this book was printed with delicious paper. I will definitely be buying it again!!!!!