Part one of term paper
In the novella The Awakening by Kate Chopin, two supporting characters, Madame Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, represent two distinctively different females of the Victorian Age. Madame Ratignolle serves as society’s idea of the ideal woman. “There [is] nothing subtle or hidden about her charms; her beauty [is] all there, fla ...

Part two of term paper
... her family. They come first in her life. She is the quintessential mother-woman. “[Mother-women] [are] women who idolized their children, [worship] their husbands, and [esteem] it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.” She gave up her individuality by taking marriage vows and became one half of the Ratignolle family. “The Ratignolles understood each other perfectly. If ever a fusion of two human beings into one has ever bee ...