Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: "Death and Sexuality in Early American Narratives," language: English, abstract: In the following paper I will subject the character of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopins The Awakening to a critical analysis. Edna Pontelliers death at the end of the novel is not the essential sense. Since the society of her time cannot allow such an "awakening" of individuality to take place, Edna is fated to die. Therefore death is a forgone...