scholarly journals The Awakening of Female Consciousness in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour (1894) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Alajlan ◽  
Faiza Aljohani
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Female Consciousness ◽  
Central Characters ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Yellow Wallpaper

This paper aims to analyze the two short stories The Story of an Hour (1894) by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in an attempt to unfold the journey that leads the female characters to awaken their consciousness and to stand against the dominating male figures in their lives. In both short stories, the central characters Louise Mallard and Jane, undergo an essential journey of self-realization, which leads them to finally freeing themselves from patriarchal authority and oppression. Moreover, the paper stresses the impact of the authors as females on their characters’ development throughout that journey. Following the analytical approach within the feminist theory, the article is influenced by two major feminist critiques; Virginia Woolf and Simone De Beauvoir, who believed that women should incorporate their voices into their writings to depict more realistic female characters. Finally, both characters rejected being subordinate and oppressed and formed a reaction against it. Moreover, both authors succeeded in portraying the true characteristics of a female character; they were able to voice their own opinions and represent their true feelings.

scholarly journals The Depressed Female Characters From Their Intimidated Surrounding as Seen in The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s, A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner’s, and The Story of an Hour By Kate Chopin

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Cut Ruby Miranda ◽  
Helmita Helmita
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Full Power ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Yellow Wallpaper

In writing this thesis, the writer discusses the depression of women because of patriarchal traditions, even though they already know about women's rights and freedoms. This patriarchal tradition is that men hold full power over anything and women must always obey the rules of men. The women are required not to do any activities, in terms of education and employment. Women are only allowed to do homework. This applies to all women, both single and married. This began in the 90s, especially in the United States. In writing the thesis, the writer uses psychological and feminist theories according to Sigmund Freud and Maggie Humm, who will explore the psychological side of women who are oppressed by the existence of this patriarchal custom. The purposes of this paper are: (1) To describe psychological-feminist cases in female characters (2) To analyze psychological-feminists in depressed female characters (3) To explain the psychological-feminist influence with female characters in the short story of The Yellow Wallpaper from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, A Rose For Emily from William Faulkner, The Story Of An Hour by Kate Chopin. The author uses descriptive qualitative methods in processing data. Through analysis of several existing sources and data. Based on available data, the writer discover how the psychology of depressed female characters from their environment is intimidated based on the short story. In fact women can become depressed because their freedom of expression is hampered and prohibited by tradition. With the writing of this thesis, it is hoped that the public can find out what exactly the meaning of women's emancipation is without having to put down women or men.

scholarly journals Doprinos jačanju nacionalne i kulturne svijesti

Liburna ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marijana Ražnjević-Zdrilić
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Literary Magazines ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
News Announcements ◽  
The Impact

This paper analyzes the literary magazine Lovor which was published in 1897. Like other literary magazines of the period, Lovor had a short life, lasting only 12 issues, from January 10 to June 25 1897. Editor-in-chief of Lovor was a prominent Croatian writer Rikard Katalinić Jeretov. The aim of this paper is to show the impact of the Lovor on the development of cultural life and on the awakening of national consciousness in Zadar at the time. Quantitative and qualitative content analysis was applied to analyze the thematic structure of all literary genres published in 12 issues of the magazine: poems, sketches, short stories, reviews, various articles, travelogues and information / news. Research has shown that these kinds of literature in Lovor contributed to the development of cultural life in Zadar, spreading knowledge about Croatian culture, whether in poems, patriotic poems, sketches and short stories on social issues; articles with interesting information about Croatian writers and their works, or in the news / announcements in which readers had the opportunity to learn news from the cultural life of the country and from abroad, and about new poetry books and other literary works.

scholarly journals An Analysis of The Feminist Characters in Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dedi Rahman Nur
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
And Behavior

This research concerns with the analysis of feminist characters in Kate Chopin’s work. The purpose of the research is to describe the feminist characters of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening short stories by analyzing the main female characters as feminist characters and the contribution of the feminist characters to the development of the plot. The research question of this research are: how is the feminist character reflected on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, and how do the feminist characters affect the development of the plot in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening short stories. The design of the research is a descriptive design. The finding of this research showed that from the characters existed in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, feminist characters is Edna Pontellier. She was considered feminist from her conversation, actions of disregarding patriarchy and social boundaries toward women, an effort to complete self-rights, self-needs, and her inner thought about freedom and self-autonomy. Also, this research showed that Edna Pontellier feminist characters have a contribution to the development of the plot of the stories. Her feminist characteristics and behavior affect to the plot. The feminist characters’ thought and attitude play important in changing the mood of the characters’ action so that making the plot developed

Kate Chopin

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Koloski
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
French And English ◽  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
The 1960S

In the United States and abroad, Kate Chopin (b. 1850–d. 1904) is recognized as one of America’s essential 19th-century authors. Her fiction is widely taught in universities and secondary schools. It is explored in hundreds of scholarly books, essays, and dissertations—as well as in the popular media. It has been made into plays, films, songs, dances, graphic fiction, and an opera. And it has been translated into twenty-some languages. But it was not always so. Chopin was born Catherine O’Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri, to a mother of French descent and a father born in Ireland. She grew up speaking both French and English and studied at a Roman Catholic academy with nuns schooled in French intellectual traditions. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin, traveled to Europe on her honeymoon, and settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. She bore five sons and a daughter. In 1879, after her husband’s business failed, the family relocated to the Natchitoches area of northern Louisiana, but in 1882 Oscar died, and shortly after Chopin moved with her children back to St. Louis, where she interacted with a group of progressive philosophers, journalists, editors, educators, and others. She began writing fiction in the late 1880s, drawing on her intimate knowledge of the lives of Louisiana Creoles, Acadians, African Americans, Native Americans, and other groups. Her novel At Fault (1890) received little attention, but she had significant success with her short stories, placing nineteen of them in Vogue, twelve in Youth’s Companion, and others in the Atlantic Monthly, the Century, Harper’s Young People, and additional magazines. She published two collections of stories, Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897), both of which were praised by book reviewers. About a third of her hundred-some short stories were published in, submitted to, or intended for children’s or family magazines. By the late 1890s, Chopin’s fiction was popular among American readers. But her novel The Awakening (1899) was denounced by reviewers, who called it “unhealthy,” “sordid,” “vulgar,” and “poison”—in part because it dealt with extramarital sex—and Chopin’s work was mostly ignored for half a century, experiencing a remarkable revival beginning only in the 1960s, long after her death. Today, Kate Chopin’s novels and stories are celebrated for their graceful, sensitive treatment of women’s lives and are discussed by scholars exploring gender, race, literary genres, and an array of other subjects.

The Awakening

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Chopin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Artistic Freedom

‘She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.’ Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner word of Edna Pontellier, and its daring criticisms of the limits of marriage and motherhood. The subtle beauty of her writing was contrasted with her unwomanly and sordid subject-matter: Edna’s rejection of her domestic role, and her passionate quest for spiritual, sexual, and artistic freedom. From her first stories, Chopin was interested in independent characters who challenged convention. This selection, freshly edited form the first printing of each text, enables readers to follow her unfolding career as she experimented with a broad range of writing, from tales for children to decadent fin-de siecle sketches. The Awakening is set alongside thirty-two short stories, illustrating the spectrum of the fiction from her first published stories to her 1898 secret masterpiece, ‘The Storm’.

scholarly journals Representation of Female Sexuality and Freedom: Kate Chopins Selected Short Stories

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Zeenat Sharmin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Traditional Roles

The writer Kate Chopin has written about female sexuality and the restrictions put by marriage as an institution upon the lives of women. Her writings delineate the lives of female characters who are burdened by the relationships they have in society. They are self-assertive and courageous women of the nineteenth century. They are thought to be ahead of their time. They have refused to accept the traditional roles and conventions of the society and have shown the deepest drives of their hearts. Chopin has explored these female souls as a woman writer. Her first attempt is to highlight the sense of female freedom and a true understanding of their nature in her writings. The purpose of this article is to analyze the representation of female sexuality and freedom in Kate Chopin’s selected short stories entitled “The Story of an Hour,” “The Storm,”and “A Pair of Silk Stockings”.

Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cairns Craig
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Muriel Spark ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Central Characters

Muriel Spark, Existentialism and the Art of Death traces Muriel Spark’s indebtedness to the tradition of Christian existentialism that derives from nineteenth century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Christian existentialism was well-established before Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir developed its influential atheistic version in the 1940s, and the book explores the ways in which Spark, in her novels and short stories, develops Kierkegaardian themes and techniques in celebration of the ‘leap to faith’. It also shows how Spark builds on Kierkegaard’s conception of the ‘aesthetic’ as the condition of secular, sensual existence, and the paradoxical condition of art, which cannot, in itself, escape the aesthetic but must point to its own entrapment within values that its author rejects. Kierkegaard’s ironic adoption of pseudonymous surrogate authors for many of his books is similar to the ways in which Spark endows her central characters with powers normally reserved to the author/narrator of a story. The book provides detailed analysis of these issues in many of Spark’s major novels in order to show her engagement with, and her rejection of, atheistic existentialism, and her insistence that art can only provide the consolation of a pseudo-eternity which distracts from the recognition of Christianity’s true eternity. In this sense, hers is an art of death – of her characters’ efforts to control death, and of the novel’s formal evasion of it.

scholarly journals An Analytical Study of Women Objectification in “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (II) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Objectification Of Women ◽  
The Impact

The objectification of women is a communal problem in every developed and underdeveloped society of the world. Women make a major population of the world and serve society in multidimensional modes, but still, they are considered feeble to men. The subject of women objectification has remained the focus of various researchers globally. This research focused on three short stories drawn from “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” of Daniyal Mueenuddin to bring forward disparities and inequalities prevailing in the patriarchal society of Pakistan. Additionally, it investigated the impact of these inequalities and injustices on the downtrodden women of Pakistan. The objectification of women is such discrimination that women are subjected to undergo in a patriarchal social setup. This study analyzes the objectification of women through the lenses of female characters selected from three short stories. This study uses the theoretical frameworks of Martha Nussbaum and Rae Langton’s to draw outcomes for this study. Study findings exhibit that female characters undergo objectification and are treated as things by males in the male-dominated strata of Pakistan. Keywords: Women objectification, gender, patriarchy, oppression, feminism

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