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    The stories of the Yellow Wallpaper and Story of an Hour are both stories that have deep meaning‚ and many hidden symbols. In both stories there is a woman who in some way is oppressed by some outside force and must find a way to overcome this oppression. While in both stories the main charcter goes through a different ordeal‚ The main theme behind these events are the same and the two experiences can compare to eachother. the events match in both women we oppressed by men and portrayed as the

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    killed‚but the readers know that what she died from was not joy. In The Story of an Hour I found two types of irony‚ situational irony and dramatic irony. In this essay I will discuss these two types of irony‚

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    The Story of An Hour: Irony In Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour‚" there is much irony. The first irony detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of the death of her husband‚ Brently Mallard. Before Louise’s reaction is revealed‚ Chopin alludes to how the widow feels by describing the world according to her perception of it after the "horrible" news. Louise is said to "not hear the story as many women have heard the same." Rather‚ she accepts it and goes to her room

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    The story of an hour describes several emotional stages that a woman undergoes after she learns about her husband’s death. The unexpected changes in her emotions lead the authors to view her differently as the story proceeds. Kate Chopin‚ the author of The Story of an hour‚ suggests that all human relationships‚ in this case the marriage‚ is oppressive‚ either intentionally or unintentionally‚ in its nature‚ and that the idea of freedom is forbidden‚ though people long for it. Her sophisticated characterization

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    Comparing and Contrasting Essay the Interlopers and the Story of an Hour In this paper I will compare and contrast the foreshadowing‚ setting‚ and characters in The Interlopers and The Story of An Hour. Setting: the Interlopers and the Story of an Hour have very different settings. The Interlopers Is set in a dark‚ cold‚ forest on a stormy night compared to The Story of an hour which is set in Mrs. Mallard’s house. For most of the story Mrs. Mallard is sitting in her room looking outside at the

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    The author uses many literary elements in the short story. Some are personification‚ imagery‚ and similes. Personification is stated in the line that follows: "she was young‚ with a fair‚ calm face‚ whose lines bespoke repression‚" This element shows how strongly she is in repression. It makes the reader actually feel how depressing her life with her husband was. She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. "The delicious breath

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    In this essay‚ I will compare character development‚ and contrast the plots in “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. I will examine the similarities of the protagonists on their pursuit to physical and emotional freedom‚ and the setting of which each story takes place. For example‚ Mrs. Mallard feels restrained in her marriage‚ but senses freedom in her brief becoming of a widow‚ and the narrator in the yellow wallpaper feels trapped in a mansion where she is forced to recover‚ but feels

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    In the short story‚ “The Story of An Hour”‚ Kate Chopin conveys the truth‚ the thoughts about freedom and new opportunities can take over someone’s mind with many positives‚ but society will try to intervene with these thoughts of freedom. The author shows this when Louise whispers and thinks about being free through repetition‚ Josephine trying to talk Louise out of her thoughts of freedom saying she is thinking mad as well as Louise seeing her husband again‚ which ends her thoughts about freedom

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    Name : Huriyatul Fikri Subject : Introduction of Literary Study NPM : 2009.111.008 Story of an Hour Style Diction (choice of words) • The words mostly polysyllabic • The words use formal(literary) • The words has connotative meaning e.g. in paragraph 8. • The words are abstract e.g. in paragraph 1 • The words are pleasant sounding Sentences Structure • Sentence length is medium‚ mostly more than 5 words‚ the sentence length is very effective it is appropriate with

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    The Story of an Hour vs. the Yellow Wallpaper "The Yellow Wallpaper‚" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ and "The Story of an Hour‚" by Kate Chopin‚ are stories written in the late 1800’s. Women in these days were repressed and did not have the freedom to go and do as they pleased. Both stories were also written from a feminist point of view. The women in these stories are similar as well as different in several ways. Kate Chopin ’s "The Story of an Hour" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s "The Yellow

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