Clever Manka, Story of an Hour and Gaslight Comparison

If we compare "Clever Manka" and "Story of An Hour" we see that both are short stories whereas "Gaslight" is a movie. All of the three arts of work have women as protagonist. These three stories also involve a husband and a wife. The main character of "Clever Manka" is Manka who is the daughter of a shepherd. She is very clever, quick in decision making and very just. Louise is the main character of "Story of An Hour". She is a heart patient and she is very emotional and the main character of "Gaslight" is Paula. She is an artist, an English singer who lives in Italy. The character of Manka is different from the other two characters as she is happy with her marriage. Whereas both Louise and Paula are going through the unhappy phase of marriage life. Paula gets married to Gregory with whom she falls in love. Her husband is nice with her in the beginning but then starts to ignore her and tries to drive her insane. Louise is unhappy because of the attitude of her husband towards her. Because of Manka's cleverness she is always triumphant whereas both Louise and Paula are victims of chain of accidents.
The themes of all the three works of art are completely different. The theme of "Clever Manka" is that of a fairy-tale like story. As the story begins with "There was once a rich farmer" you can figure out that it's not a true story. It is a fairy-tale between a burgomaster who is all powerful and smart but loses to a poor but a very clever girl. "Story Of An Hour" has a kind of a social tale setting as it describes the status of a women in those times when the women were considered inferior to men. The theme of "Gaslight" is suspense. It's based on a murder that takes place in London.
We see differences in the plots of "Clever Manka", "Story Of An Hour" and "Gaslight". "Clever Manka" contains brief episodes each of which showing Manka acting cleverly solving riddles set forth by the burgomaster. There is a husband and wife conflict in the story when the burgomaster puts a limitation on Manka using her wit but she does not abide by it when she sees an injustice about to happen because of which the husband exiles her. The climax of the story is a happy ending with the burgomaster admiring Manka's cleverness. "Story Of An Hour" is a fully developed single episode that takes place entirely in just one room expressing the emotions and actions of Louise after finding out that her husband is dead. The conflict in the story is between grief and joy as Louise starts to rejoice the moments thinking that she is free now. The climax of the story is a sad and a surprising ending as when Louise sees her husband standing alive at the door she dies of the shock. On the other hand "Gaslight" is a suspense movie starting with the murder of an opera artist in London at Thornton Square. The victim was the mother of Paula. The conflict in the movie is between the husband and the wife. The husband tries all sorts of thing to drive her wife insane. In the climax we find out that the husband is the one who killed Paula's mother for the sake of jewels and later he is caught red handed. "Clever Manka" and "Gaslight" are related to each other to a certain extent regarding the conflict and the climax.