Topic > The Role of Women in the Awakening by Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin wrote in a time period when women were fighting for just that. In other words, the women's curiosity grew more and more as she took away their freedoms, the more they took them away the more their curiosity grew. Kate Chopin was born in 1851 to Catherine O'Flaherty, she was a married woman with six children and then a widow. He started writing novels, which was offensive to men, that's why he never had the chance to publish them, then he finally did. Chopin wrote many fictional stories that help change the view of women in society. One of the novels entitled The Awakening written in 1899, a story of adultery and sexuality which was harshly criticized by other readers for the way it portrayed women in the novels. No thought later in the time that she was acknowledging the feminist scholar's lecture. The next story, entitled The Tempest, will probably be published at the same time as the novel The Awakening, which he actually had no intention of publishing. The novel The Tempest is about a woman who committed adultery, and in the end no one got hurt. The novel The Tempest is about two main characters called Calixta and Alcee, a cauple from the past whose relationship didn't work out due to their differences. Now that they have seen each other again, both married and with children, they both remember the past when their passionate relationship was at its peak. The Tempest symbolizes a sexual tendency towards human beings, in other words the title The Tempest, Chopin begins to illustrate these sexual prohibitions in his novels. More specifically, when you think of a storm, in literary terms, it is bound to be related to problems, violence, disasters. In this novel, Chopin manipulates the character... in the center of the card... easily manipulated by the echo of passion in his emotions like a storm. When she puts away the cotton garment, it symbolizes a reminder that she is married to another man and has a life with him. Calixta interacted with Alcee who later started mutual physical attraction without any emotion. Calixta is now vulnerable to Alcee and is now forced to focus on him. The Tempest is not just a novel about sexual tendencies, but about Chopin's representation of sexuality. Chopin was very close to his female sexuality. Through her writing, Chopin was able to experiment with her ideas about sexuality and more, as well as declare her sexual emotions in those times. Chopin probably did not attempt to publish The Tempest to hide these statements long enough until his nephew later in years could find the novels.