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How in literature the birth of a child, development of an idea, or moment of personal revelation conveys ominous prophecy and portends consequences of events and choices. Three works that have at their heart a fateful birth: Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, a fictional autobiography concerned with where life begins and ends; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein as an allegory of giving birth to a novel; and Kate Chopin's The Awakening, about a woman's growing self-awareness--or rebirth.
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