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Kate Chopin’s
Get out a piece of paper and take some notes!
• Born Catherine O’Flaherty
• Creole/Irish Background
• Widowed at 32: husband
Oscar dies and leaves Kate
with $230,000 in debt
• Wrote to support family:
became successful author of
short fiction…
Historical background
Might be a good idea to write this down.
…until The Awakening is published in 1899
Seriously, it’s helpful.
Why wouldn’t you write this stuff down.
Critical response- Some positive:
• “Analytical, and fine-spun,” - The Book Buyer
• “The work of an artist who can suggest more than one side of her subject with a single line.” - St. Louis Republic
But most critical response:
It could be on the test.
And you all want to do well on the test…
• “not…wholesome,” - The Dial
• “should be labeled ‘poison’,” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• “It was not necessary for a writer of so great refinement and poetic grace to enter the over-worked field of sex-fiction,” - Chicago Times-Herald
But most critical response:
• Women’s role in society• Women’s role in the household• Consequences of Individualism• Implications of Self-Expression
And you wanna be cool, right?
Awakening!• Types of Awakening:• Physical• Emotional• Intellectual
So learn this stuff. Especially the stuff on this slide.
• Aphrodite (Greek) or Venus (Latin):
Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty. She was said to have been born of water. It is believed that she sprang from a sea-birth near the island of Cytherea. The two components of Aphrodite are passion and water.
Be sure to pay attention to references to these allusions while you read.
• Echo and Narcissus
Echo cursed to only reply +
Narcissus totally full of himself =
Tragedy
Don’t be full of yourself: write this down.
• Gulf Spirit
Sea Spirit from Celtic and Creole myths
Takes humans back to the water
Don’t be full of yourself: write this down.
• Icarus
Fashioned wings of feathers and wax
Flew too close to the sun
Don’t be full of yourself: write this down.
Orpheus and Eurydice
Love unfulfilled
Pain of emotional entanglement
Undying love
• Fairy Tales:
Classic Images:• Women are vestal and innocent
• Put to Sleep or Isolated to preserve innocence
• Desired for innocence
Are you too one-dimensional to take notes? What a shame.
• Important Symbols
• Birds• Water• Clothing• Houses• Music/Art and Expression
You can bet your sweet behind that you will be tested on the content of this slide.