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by Jessica Salamin.
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Florida Atlantic University
Date Issued
2009
Description
This thesis represents a study of Kate Chopin's groundbreaking novel, The Awakening. Further, it applies Nietzsche's principles of Dionysiac and Apollonian impulses to the literary analysis of the novel. I argue that the protagonist of the novel, Edna Pontellier, embarks on a quest to determine how she may live an authentic life - that is, a life whereby she is true to herself above all others. Ultimately, her search for self is overwhelmed by the imbalance of the Apollonian and Dionysiac impulses against which she struggles. Because Edna cannot successfully mediate this struggle, she reaches the conclusion that she may only attain a truth to her self if she finds that truth in death.
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v, 65 p.
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Identifier
427335297
OCLC Number
427335297
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by Jessica Salamin.
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009.
Includes bibliography.
Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Date Backup
2009
Date Text
2009
Date Issued (EDTF)
2009
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FAU
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FADT216407
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Attributed name: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Attributed name: Department of English
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Salamin, Jessica.
Graduate College
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electronic
v, 65 p.
Title Plain
Hanging in the balance
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Boca Raton, Fla.
Florida Atlantic University
2009
Place
Boca Raton, Fla.
Title
Hanging in the balance
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Hanging in the balance
the lure of Nietzsche's Apollonian and Dionysiac impulses in Kate Chopin's The Awakening