Kate Chopin: The Taboos of Society Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho states, "I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfill our destiny, but our fate is sealed." As a female living in the South during the early 1900s, Kate Chopin provides in-depth understand of the struggles and feelings of captivity that women felt because of society's oppression. Chopin's
Kate Chopin was an American author who wrote stories about women’s lives that were thought to be vulgar and disagreeable by critics and readers. The Awakening and “The Storm” are stories Chopin wrote that were about taboo subjects such as infidelity and sexuality. Her exploration of women’s independence was not celebrated by her society. I believe that if Chopin had published her stories in today’s society, her novels would be at the top of the New York Times’s “Best Sellers” list right next to E
A Voyage of Self-Discovery: Edna Pontellier’s Awakening in a Stifling Society Edna Pontellier is a woman out of time. Born into the patriarchal society of the late Victorian era, she is pulled into a loveless marriage and struggles in vain to fulfill her axiomatic duties. But Edna possesses an inner soul that constantly questions her position in the universe and pushes her to satisfy her most basic desires. Kate Chopin’s novella, The Awakening, illustrates the voyage that Edna undertakes in order