Realism and Naturalism in Fiction

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

When Kate Chopin published The Awakening in 1899, she struck her with a frank depiction of the public, women, social, sexual and spiritual awakening. The author ably symbolized the beginning of the independence of women, even though the conditions were hostile, low wages, and their income is legally controlled by their husbands or fathers. Middle and upper class women were still expected to stay in the country, as a simple, decorative symbols of their husbands' wealth. They were, as Virginia Woolf called it, is expected to be angels in the house.

Love and lust, marriage and independence, freedom and restraint, and the theme of their work is clearly realized when Edna Pontellier, the heroine of The Awakening "announces" I would like to abandon the odds, I would have my money, I would give my life for my children but I would not let himself "it is a critical issue, and the victory of self-defense, maintaining it.

In the genre of naturalism are most evident in this picture Awakening Edna hostage to its environment. This woman has children and wife in that society dictates behavioral norms based on these conditions. These features create a novel issue, and its effect heroin Edna. It bases its decisions to the benefit of their children, and she is in her difficult situation because of the men in her life: father, husband, lover, and future fans. Inherited environment and situation, move on to the idea that her character traits, may have been corrupted bad stocks.

The novel is indeed the real life aspects of realism and naturalism in his direct regarding sexual issues: Arobin in seduction, hot kisses, she gives Robert, Leonce allusion that they no longer sleep together, naked man on a rock (Andrews, 41). Such descriptions actually portrayed as a genre of realism and naturalism of the full effects in society, Chopin gave a detailed and full range of sexual feelings and activities to enhance the driving and the nature of reality. Relations between men and women, as well as economic aspects that go along with this problem also realistic. Edna is the "property" at various points in the novel her father, husband, Arobin and Robert. Victor told women to own and Leonce shown in its class, as a property and see it as a symbol of their social status. Edna, as she was moving in the pigeon house, she ...