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The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"
2011. urn:nbn:hr:142:840358
Filipović, Mirijam
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Filipović, M. (2011). The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:840358

Filipović, Mirijam. "The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:840358

Filipović, Mirijam. "The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:840358

Filipović, M. (2011). 'The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 03 April 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:840358

Filipović M. The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2011 [cited 2025 April 03] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:840358

M. Filipović, "The Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2011. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:840358

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TitleThe Awakening of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"
Title (croatian)Buđenje lika Edne Pontellier u romanu "Buđenje" Kate Chopin
AuthorMirijam Filipović
MentorBiljana Oklopčić (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2011-09-06, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This diploma paper elaborately describes the awakening of Edna Pontellier’s character. She gains her independence, liberation of her real character and sexual desire through series of little awakenings. Women’s position in the late nineteenth century is being discussed, because in this novel, through the character of the main protagonist Edna, Kate Chopin is showing experiences of a woman trapped in that time. With her naturalistic narrative style Chopin has perfectly depicted a woman who was... More shackled to the Creole society and its norms, and whose life was ruled by the collective. After that, Edna’s unhappy marriage, and her Creole surrounding in which she, a Kentucky Protestant, does not fit in, and the beginning of her awakening is being described. Her friendship with Robert Lebrun, and love toward him, initiated her self-awakening and the beginning of her sexual awakening. The experience of her first time swimming alone, when she realized her own strength, symbolizes the awakening of her real self. In much the same way, the excursion with Robert to Cheniere Caminada, where she became aware of her own sexuality, initiated her sexual awakening. Also, her rebellion against the conventional society, breaking of social norms, leaving her husband and children, and her isolation which provoked a sexual affair with Alcee Arobin, with whom Edna’s sexuality fully flowered, are stations on her trip to her final, tragic awakening. After Robert’s final good-bye, Edna realizes the depth of her solitude, and commits suicide, because this is the only way she could preserve her freedom, integrity, and independence. Less
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:840358
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: German Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/aprvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) njemačkoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/aprvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) njemačkoga jezika i književnosti)
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