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Essay Archive - The Awakening: Public Controversy
The Awakening: Public Controversy
The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, was a book that was truly ahead
of its time. The author of the book was truly a genius in her right, but yet she
was seen as a scoundrel. At the time, it was "a world that values only her
performance as a mother, whose highest expectations for women are self sacrifice
and self-effacement." ( ? ) The people of that era were not ready to admit or
accept the simple but hidden feelings of intimacy or sexuality and the true
nature of womanhood. Kate Chopin's book portrayed a woman of that time in a
quite unorthodox way. In fact, [ When she wrote t....
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