Alienation in Victorian Society by Shivam Ray The Victorian period is often defined and pictured by its antique images of flowers, corsets, standard 18 inch waists and rosy-cheek children. However, Kate Chopin shatters this image in her Novel "The Awakening" published in 1899. The authors child hood experiences of tragedies in her family and a true story of a lady from New Orleans and her scandals greatly influence the matter of this novel. In reality, Victorian period …showed first 75 words of 451 total…

…showed last 75 words of 451 total…if one would survive longer then her husband. Choppin carefully use the characters of lady in black and Adele to portray this. However, Edna does not believe in a life molded by such a societies moral values. Thus, she looks for an outside source of love and turns to Robert. But, his love to his infested by the notion of owning the woman who loves him and keepin' "it" protected as any other valuable property.