ENG364Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kate Chopin, Quadroon, Robert R. Reisz
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What readers of the north loved to read was local colour; i. e. new orleans was considered exotic. Chopin writes about a class of french and spanish, higher class people living in these areas. New orleans was hit by a hurricane a couple years before she published this text, so a lot of what she writes about was destroyed: Is one of the things she awakens to the limitations of women in her time: in using the, chopin universalizes the term; it"s more ambiguous and more positive than the latter title. Women who are victims of the over idealizations of love edna belongs to a class of women who deserve more romance out of life than god put into it. 2. The play begins with a parrot screaming get out : interesting because parrots mimic what it hears, parrots were brought over to these areas from tropical areas (south america) so there"s an aspect of colonialism.
