Artistic Characteristics of the Representation of Women in Kate Chopin's Stories
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51699/ijcm.v25i.465Abstract
Like most women writers, K.Chopin pays attention to describing people's personal lives, mainly women's lives, in her works. The English writer Virginia Woolf sees the explanation of such a limited subject of female authors in their financial situation and lack of social freedom. Comparing the life experiences of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy in his literary-critical essay "My Room", he rightly notes: "If Tolstoy had lived in a monastery cell with a married woman, he would have "if he has stopped living". In the so-called world, "…then, no matter how instructive this practice was, he would hardly have written "War and Peace".
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