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American woman writer Kate Chopin’s (1851-1904) The Awakening, published in 1899, is generally considered as a classic feminism novel in the history of American Literature. However, the heroin’s awakening of self-awareness under the caress of nature, her struggle against traditional society under the guidance of spirit and soul, and even her final pursuing of self-independence all reveal the ideas of Transcendentalism, advanced by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), who is regarded as the most outstanding representative of the American Transcendentalism. This paper intends to explore how the novel reveals a transcendental tendency and how profound the influence of the transcendental belief is upon the heroine’s double awakening both spiritually and physically.
American woman writer Kate Chopin’s (1851-1904) The Awakening, published in 1899, is generally considered as a classic feminism novel in the history of American Literature. However, the heroin’s awakening of self-awareness under the caress of nature, her struggle against traditional society under the guidance of spirit and soul, and even her final pursuing of self-independence all reveal the ideas of Transcendentalism, advanced by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), who is regarded as the most outstanding representative of the American Transcendentalism. This paper intends to explore how the novel reveals a transcendental tendency and how profound the influence of the transcendental belief is upon the heroine’s double awakening both spiritually and physically.