Women and emancipation in Kate Chopin’s works
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Women and emancipation in Kate Chopin’s worksAuthor (s)
Tutor/Supervisor
Alberola Crespo, NievesTutor/Supervisor; University.Department
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosDate
2014Publisher
Universitat Jaume IAbstract
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 ... [+]
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. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs: 2013/2014
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