Many liked the novel The Awakening and many approved of the topic and the way it was written, as stated above, not many authors have managed to pull off writing this book, but Chopin was lucky. She accomplished this task of writing and publishing a book about the lack of satisfaction in a woman’s life during the time period that was considered the hardest for women to deal with, and unlike many others she was well accepted. The Awakening was written largely in response to the enormous amounts of women dissatisfied with their lives. Much of this dissatisfaction was caused by their lack of rights and low standing in political society. Men ruled the world outside the home, women were expected to rule the children and the home, and the little amount of power they were allowed, was supposed to give them satisfaction. Kate Chopin wanted women to know that they were not alone and they were not the only people who were unfulfilled and unhappy. Many women actually believed that they were the only ones going through all this turmoil and therefore took drugs to feel better. This helped the book succeed and to be viewed by all as a new classic novel about the women’s rights movement.
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