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Exploring Realism and Local Color in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Understand Realism and Local Color in literature through Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Analyze characters, symbolism, and societal roles. Agenda includes timed writing and discussion. Dive into the rich tapestry of Chopin's feminist classic.

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Exploring Realism and Local Color in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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  1. 3-8-13 Objectives: • To compose an AP essay from The Glass Menagerie. • To examine the characteristics of Realism and Local Color and begin to see how The Awakening shows both of these.

  2. Today’s Agenda: • Notes on Realism and Local Color • Intro to Kate Chopin and The Awakening • Assign books. (I’ll pick names out of a container) • If your name is not selected, it is your responsibility to find a book!! • Timed Writing: forty minutes

  3. Realism: • A break from Romanticism, Realism is any effort to portray life as it really is; focuses on ordinary people and events. • BIG emphasis on real characters that the reader can relate to. These characters are often dealing with a moral dilemma. • Focuses on the good as well as on the bad.

  4. Local Color/Regional Literature: • Focuses on characters, dialect, customs, and other features of a particular region. • Mark Twain is the best example!! • Read pp. 1708-1710 in Bedford book. (Realism)

  5. Kate Chopin: • 1850-1904 • Two published novels and over 100 short stories. • Settings: Louisiana (French Creole) • Focuses on the lives of subservient women in a male-dominated world in which there are certain expectations regarding gender. • The Awakening: published in 1899 and banned from libraries for its immoral content!!!

  6. Reading: • Read chapters 1 through 14 by Tues, March 19. (I-XIV) These chapters must be finished when you walk in to class on the 19th!!!

  7. Chopin came from a wealthy family • She lived in New Orleans for a while • She had six children • Vacationed in Grand Isle, a Creole resort in the Gulf of Mexico. (part of setting in The Awakening) • Widowed at age thirty-two • Many of her short stories appeared in magazines • Chopin became the first woman to accept sexual passion as a subject for her fiction!!!

  8. The Awakening: • Creole: a person born in Louisiana but usually of French ancestry. Many French references in novel. • Setting: Grand Isle and the French quarter in New Orleans. (QuartierFrancais) • Set in 1899

  9. Things To Look For: • Meaning in the title • Symbolism: note Chopin’s use of birds (among other symbols!!) • Allusions to the Greek myth of Aphrodite • The “Gulf Spirit” • Biblical allusions • Vocabulary: especially French words!! Understanding the translations reveals deeper meaning in the novel!

  10. Character contrast • Foils • Women’s roles in Victorian society • Connections with other female characters that we’ve examined this year

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