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Femenisim Chopin's The Awakening is an influential and ahead of its time novel, published in 1899. It represents new ideas, techniques, and hope for women which were disdained by the patriarchal society at that time; it was considered morally inappropriate, but the fact was that the society was unprepared for such an outbreak which threatens the power of the patriarchy. Women at that time were expected to be submissive, obedient and loyal wives and mothers. The novel was a clear invitation for women to awaken from the conventions, which were restraining and limiting, to discover their self and identity. Even though it did not meet the appraisal it deserved when first published, Continental feminists would find the novel interesting and significant, for it holds within it the essence of Continental feminism and its aspects, which emerged around 70 years after its publication. The main character might be considered as...

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