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Chopin’s words

Chopin’s words. She described " human existence in its subtle, complex, true meaning , stripped of the veil with which ethical and conventional standards have draped it. " Write this quote in your own words. What do you think she means?. More words.

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Chopin’s words

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  1. Chopin’s words • She described "human existence in its subtle, complex, true meaning, stripped of the veil with which ethical and conventional standards have draped it." • Write this quote in your own words. What do you think she means?

  2. More words • "truth rests upon a shifting basis and is apt to be kaleidoscopic” • How can truth shift? What is the “shifting basis” Chopin mentions?

  3. The Awakening • widely condemned • morbid, vulgar, and disagreeable • As you read the novel, pay attention to how/why

  4. Characters • Edna Pontellier • Leonce Pontellier • Robert Lebrun • Adele Ratignolle • Mademoiselle Reisz • Alcee Arobin

  5. Themes/Motifs • women's search for selfhood, for self-discovery or identity. • women's revolt against conformity, often against gender conformity or against social norms that limit women's possibilities in life. • women's understanding of feminine sexuality or women's experience of motherhood, pregnancy, or childbirth.

  6. Themes/Ideas • themes are revealed by Chopin's literary techniques, her use of imagery or parallel sentence structures, her narrative control or narrative stance. • Themes are also revealed through use of regional dialects.

  7. Themes/Ideas • Some read Chopin through a specific critical approach--psychoanalytic criticism, feminist criticism, deconstruction. • And some scholars find themes related to economics

  8. Edna Pontellier • “Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.“ • What are the differences between the outward life and inward life of a woman of this time?

  9. Edna • "I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself." • What do you think Edna means by this?

  10. As you read… • Keep in mind the themes; be sure to find examples of them • Trace Edna’s development • Find examples of realism • See Teacherweb for other questions for each chapter.

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