Analyzing Kate Chopin's 'Story Of An Hour'
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Kathryn smith
5/2/17
Egnlish 102
Analysis for story of an hour
The story of an hour is a book that has a lot of historical, religious, biographical , and social context and meaning. The race of lower-class people in the American south affected women where associated to each social class such that men had power over many others. In the grand scheme of things, women of society were citizens that needed to be subordinated. white women had nothing in the united states, and many legal respects said they live as independent actors except through the person the married. nevertheless, women couldn’t have their own land , and items they kept tended to be passed down primarily to the boy’s rather than given to their girl’s. people who lost there husband had more rights than others and had more accountability. The story reflects on …show more content…
louise seems to be helped by the mediations that she does. Her look on life is based upon her things she sees more clearly. She feels she now received sublime but highly personal revelation in which traditional religion religion plays no part she plans to “live for herself”(story of an hour, page 353), when she thinks of her “soul” she thinks of it conjunction with her “body” and she thinks of both as “free”(353) this seems irrelevant to Josephine. Ironically one of the few explicitly religious lords in the story involves Louise’s “quick prayer that life ( that is physically, earthly life) might be long. When she finally emerges from her room she resembles a classical, non-Christian “goddess of victory” (354) just before she meets her crushing defeat. Chopin doesn’t end the story, however as another more religious writer might have done, Chopin provides no explicit judgment and suggests Louise had been punished for her sins. As for the biographical context, the most intriguing connection between the story and Chopin’s
Kathryn smith
5/2/17
Egnlish 102
Analysis for story of an hour
The story of an hour is a book that has a lot of historical, religious, biographical , and social context and meaning. The race of lower-class people in the American south affected women where associated to each social class such that men had power over many others. In the grand scheme of things, women of society were citizens that needed to be subordinated. white women had nothing in the united states, and many legal respects said they live as independent actors except through the person the married. nevertheless, women couldn’t have their own land , and items they kept tended to be passed down primarily to the boy’s rather than given to their girl’s. people who lost there husband had more rights than others and had more accountability. The story reflects on …show more content…
louise seems to be helped by the mediations that she does. Her look on life is based upon her things she sees more clearly. She feels she now received sublime but highly personal revelation in which traditional religion religion plays no part she plans to “live for herself”(story of an hour, page 353), when she thinks of her “soul” she thinks of it conjunction with her “body” and she thinks of both as “free”(353) this seems irrelevant to Josephine. Ironically one of the few explicitly religious lords in the story involves Louise’s “quick prayer that life ( that is physically, earthly life) might be long. When she finally emerges from her room she resembles a classical, non-Christian “goddess of victory” (354) just before she meets her crushing defeat. Chopin doesn’t end the story, however as another more religious writer might have done, Chopin provides no explicit judgment and suggests Louise had been punished for her sins. As for the biographical context, the most intriguing connection between the story and Chopin’s