Essay Comparing The Awakening And The Storm By Kate Chopin

The works, “The Awakening'' and “The Storm” and many short stories by Kate Chopin, at the time of being released were very controversial and showed the repression of women during a time period in which sexism was strongly present and ignored. The women's suffrage movement roughly began in 1848 and lasted until 1920, though there has been suffering for women many years before and still to this current day about women's rights. Chopin was alive from 1850-1904, living to see and experience most of the women’s suffrage movement. Much of Chopin’s inspiration was also due to the fact that she was raised in a conservative, aristocratic, upbringing. Although that did not stop her from writing stories about the concealed desires and thoughts of women

Being raised by independent women was a factor in Chopin’s early life that contributed to her morals and beliefs, inspiring her feminist works.
Chopin attended formal school at Sacred Heart Academy, a catholic, all girls school, in which she was inspired by the women around her because of the encouragement of free thinking and ability to govern oneself. While attending Sacred Heart Academy, Chopin was stressed the importance of education and being proficient in her studies. The nuns at the academy highlighted writing, literature, science, and needwork, holding their students to punctilious standards (Larrabee). Chopin began to write and was a vigorous and passionate writer because of these influences. Most if not all of Chopin's educators were nuns, who were unmarried women who gave their lives to God. Nuns dedicate their lives’ work to obedience to God and invest into what they believe in. The idea of indepence in Chopin’s work was influenced by these factors because of experiencing the attitudes and teachings of them. Chopin understood the standards she was held to and was very

In Chopin's, “The Awakening '', a novel which questions the institution of marriage and views the idea as constricting, can often be seen as controversial. The novel depicts a young mother's struggle to achieve sexual and personal emancipation in the brutal environment of the postwar American South. A novel that had been before, castigated as appalling and immoral, was often applauded for its blunt honesty, especially in portraying the frequently stringed lives of women (Evans). Chopin herself had seen how marriage ended in her life many times and the outcomes of it. Chopin lost her father at a young age, left being raised by her working mother and grandmother who was a storyteller. She also lost her husband later in life which sparked her writing career. Chopin invested much of her writing career with the main topic of her life as a single mother in Louisiana at the age of thirty-nine (Larrabee). One can infer that Chopin used her own life experiences and personal thoughts in her work as the main ideas of her work are about the struggles of women and the retaliation of society's norms. Chopin had seen the many possible outcomes of marriage and the dependency on men especially in the postbellum south and had expressed it in her