Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn once said that, “Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.” In saying this he is verbalizing one of the fundamental functions of literature, to have the author’s thoughts and emotions preserved for generations to come. As the author writes the reader can essentially put himself in the position of not only the author but of the characters as well. Part of the Brain’s job is to make connections, so in short the reader tends to put himself/herself in the place of, or even parallels their own experiences to the characters and author of the text being ingested. Literature provides the writer with a place where …show more content…
In The Awakening Kate creates a protagonist that very similarly mirrors herself. The reader is able to feel her emotions and understand the surrounding historical influence just by reading the novel.
Katherine O'Flaherty born February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904 in St. Louis Missouri NEED MORE!!!!!!!!
Kate Chopin is a strong-willed independent woman who writes about women with similar characteristics. Specifically in The Awakening, Chopin creates a character that mirrors herself and her own life. The protagonist, Edna, acts as a reflection of Kate, allowing Kate’s life and the history of the time period to be directly portrayed by the novel.

Chopin’s novel The Awakening reflects the history of her time period in that it depicts the role of women in Louisiana's society during the late nineteenth century. Earlier on in the nineteenth century the Creole community took up a vast majority of Louisiana. “The term Creole was first used in the sixteenth century to …show more content…
In The Awakening, Kate symbolized the main character Edna, as a bird. More specifically a parrot. She then describes Mademoiselle as a mockingbird. Chopin says that the parrot is speaking “a language which no one understood, unless I was the mockingbird that hung on the other side of the door (The Awakening).” In saying this, Chopin is talking about her feelings towards Mademoiselle Reisz’s piano playing. This is the reflection of Kate’s own life. M.M.E victoria Verdon- Kate’s great grandmother would pay for Kate. Kate felt liberated when her great grandmother played. She was taught how to be artistic. Besides the piano Kate was greatly influenced by her great grandmother. She was taught to think abstractly and to tell imaginative stories. Although it was against her time Kate was being raised as her own person. A strong women. Similarly Kate pushed the limits, her work was often disregarded because the things she wrote about were “too real,” but that is what people grew to