... inherent conflict between the traditional requirement that a wife form her life around her husband's and a woman's need for discrete personhood (363). In The Awakening Chopin's theme holds true. Her main character is Edna Pontellier a woman who realizes that she can't have a life while in the bonds of marriage; but ... in the water. Oh, I see the connection now! (380) Edna often recalled memories of her childhood in Kentucky. By having Edna do this Chopin also touched on the stereotypical romantic elements: childhood memories, frequent inner thoughts, Edna's calling to the ocean (because...

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... happy marriages and true love, and drifted toward that of the truth and the realism of these situations. Through the use of imagery, Kate Chopin related the main character's emotions in The Story of an Hour, to that of the realism of the Gilded Age. In this short story Kate ... her eyes", that she was a free woman. The Romantics like to believe that women wanted to be married and under the control of a man, but Kate Chopin refuted this idea by the fact that Louise became delighted by the idea of life without her husband. The realistic idea was women are capable of caring for themselves ....

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... had cherished. The Romantic Period was filled with many significant, brilliant musicians. Among these artists were Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann (1819-1896), Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1849), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Hector Beriloz (1803-1869), Peter Ilyic Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Johannes Brahms (1833 ... ...

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