The Awakenings Style

The Awakenings StyleChopin, Arr. BronsIf I had a ThesisIn The Awakening, Kate Chopin crafts a intense character, Edna, who is constantly caught between realities. Although the narrative and literary techniques provide ample characterization, Chopins style of writing effectively portrays Ednas frustratingly intimate conflict with a sub-conscious, methodical flair.

Realism vs. Local Color vs. NaturalismMore conventions and characteristics of Realism- Discussion! Slow-moving plotRounded, dynamic charactersEnding usually openPlausible narrative, focused on the commonplaceComplex ethical choicesAvoid sensational, dramatic elementsA mix of styles (typically for contrast)The redemption of the individual lay within the social world.Contrasting Styles and Relationship of Individual and SocietyIn short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eightperhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman. But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.Reisz and RatingolleBoth are so universal and recognizable: think Margaret Thatcher and Gypsy Rose Lee.was a disagreeable little woman, no longer young, who had quarreled with almost everyone, owing to a temper which was self-assertive and a disposition to trample upon the rights to others.efface themselves as individuals and grow wings"There was something in her attitude when spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of lifes delirium.The EndingSilence!Draw the ocean: waves and if you want, the beach.Quickly.Write in the waves what the ocean means in the book.Dont stress, just two or three things.Mrs. Burton will be playing the part of EdnaOn my cue, begin making ocean sounds and waving your papers and Mrs. Burton will read some of the words in the waves while wading into our simulated, literary-oceanic landscape.