2024-03-29T12:37:48Zhttps://repositori.uji.es/oai/requestoai:repositori.uji.es:10234/1086392019-11-18T19:59:26Zcom_10234_71324com_10234_158176col_10234_107304
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Miguel Vicente, Beatriz de
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2014
In the mid-nineteenth century, more precisely in 1850, one of the most important
American writers was born: Catharine O’Flaherty Faris, better known as Kate Chopin. She is
considered a precursor in her times who articulated in her work the unspoken desires and
secrets of women’s experiences and feelings. In a period when Victorian prudery pervaded
not only family life, but also the public area, she wrote openly about women: her works
challenged the conventions and rules of a society that restricted women’s dreams of freedom
and independence and questioned women´s identity. Chopin’s female characters and their
dreams of emancipation are linked to the main purpose of this project that is, then, to
demonstrate that it does exist an evolution in the behaviour and disposition of Kate Chopin’s
female protagonists in their longing for reaching their freedom. Taking into account Janet
Beer’s assertion in which she claims that Chopin is an interesting subject of study for the
parallelism between her personal and fictional evolution, five fictional heroines from her
short stories (“Désirée’s Baby”, “The Story of an Hour”, “A Respectable Woman” and “The
Storm”) and her last novel The Awakening have been examined and analysed to prove that
this evolution cannot be denied.
http://hdl.handle.net/10234/108639
Grau en Estudis Anglesos
Grado en Estudios Ingleses
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies
Kate Chopin
Emancipación de las mujeres
Literatura feminsta
Mujeres en la literatura
Escritoras norteamericanas
Literatura feminísta norteamericana
Women and emancipation in Kate Chopin’s works