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Women in the Early Nineteenth Century vs. Women in The Awakening
There are many different types of women portrayed in The Awakening. The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast the women in the book to the women during the turn of the nineteenth century and the society's reaction to the novel.. The novel shows the social constraints of women in the Victorian era. During this time, women were supposed to be docile, domestic creatures, whose main concerns in life were to be the raising of their children and submissiveness to their husbands.
The setting of The Awakening also contributes to the viewpoints as to how women were viewed at the time of the writing. The novel was published in 1899 and set in the Creole section of Louisiana. Although the feminist movement was starting to emerge in the other parts of America at this time, it was almost entirely absent in the conservative state of Louisiana. Under Louisiana law, a woman was still considered the property of her husband.......

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