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The controlling function of culture as an important theme in Kate Chopin`s novel "The Awakening"

Name: The controlling function of culture as an important theme in Kate Chopin`s novel "The Awakening"
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Author: Eleonora Reis
ISBN: 978-3-640-31386-0

Term Paper, 2006

4 Pages, Grade: 1

Eleonora Reis (Author)

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In his essay “Culture”, Steven Greenblatt makes the assertion that culture functions “as a pervasive technology of control, a set of limits within which social behaviour must be contained” (Greenblatt 225). This controlling function of culture is a central issue in Kate Chopin`s novel “The Awakening”. In the following essay I will prove that cultural boundaries and social conventions play a very important role in “The Awakening”. By means of two specific examples from the text, I will show that Greenblatt`s thesis corresponds to the function of culture at the time in which the novel takes place.

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Title: The controlling function of culture as an important theme in Kate Chopin`s novel "The Awakening"
College: Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Grade: 1
Author: Eleonora Reis (Author)
Year: 2006
Pages: 4
Catalog Number: V125888
ISBN (eBook): 9783640313860
File size: 409 KB
Language: English
Keywords: Kate, Chopin`s, Awakening

Quote paper: Eleonora Reis (Author), 2006, The controlling function of culture as an important theme in Kate Chopin`s novel "The Awakening" , Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/125888

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