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In his essay “Culture”, Steven Greenblatt makes the assertion that culture functions “as a pervasive technology of control, a set of limits within which social behaviour must be contained” (Greenblatt 225). This controlling function of culture is a central issue in Kate Chopin`s novel “The Awakening”. In the following essay I will prove that cultural boundaries and social conventions play a very important role in “The Awakening”. By means of two specific examples from the text, I will show that Greenblatt`s thesis corresponds to the function of culture at the time in which the novel takes place.
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- Eleonora Reis (Author), 2006, The controlling function of culture as an important theme in Kate Chopin`s novel "The Awakening" , Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/125888
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