In “the story of an hour‚” author Kate Chopin develops the main character Louise Mallard initially as a submissive young spouse. Then the author develops the characterization of Louise Mallard‚ through her diction and imagery‚ into an empowered‚ freed “widow.” The diction used by the author is crucial to the development of the story. In the opening line the author refers to the main character as “Mrs. Mallard‚” and states that she is “afflicted with a weak heart. These choices of diction imply
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Elizabeth Bowen tells the story of the young woman Louise who is going to shift to France as it is the place where her husband Charles works and lives. The story takes place on the morning of her depature in the White House which is the home of Charles’ family and Louise isn’t happy about herself joining Charles in France. Even though Charles isn’t the protagonist of the story and doesn’t interact at all‚ he is present throughout the whole story. Louise constantly thinks about him and how it is going
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delicately to Louise‚ for she is "afflicted with a heart trouble" (362) and any distress may worsen her pre-existing condition. However‚ after hearing of her husbands tragic death‚ Louise spends time in her room basking in illustrious liberation; "spring days‚ and summer days‚ and all sorts of days would be her own" (363). To show the oppression Mrs. Mallard experiences‚ the
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much. It’s kind of ironic.” Whether it means giving a speech in front of an audience or dancing on a stage‚ no one likes it. However‚ in the novel‚ The Flamingo Rising‚ Larry Baker introduces Louise‚ a different type of person that will do anything to be the center of attention. In Larry Baker’s novel‚ Louise and her brother‚ Abraham Isaac‚ start their first day at school at the age of twelve. Louise’s limp becomes obvious because she is nervous. As the class stares at her‚ she overcomes this nervousness
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In The Book of the City of Ladies‚ there are four main characters that all uniquely develop the utopian model of Christine’s "City of Ladies." The first character‚ and most important‚ is Christine de Pizan as herself who connects the real world that she exists in to that of an imaginative world and its city symbolic of phylogeny and the reality of a women’s virtue. In her fantasy world she is ignorant of women’s virtue and talent and asks the three virtues of the validity of male misogyny. These
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change be far throughout the entire story is the main character Mrs. Louise Mallard. This transformation doesn’t just help change the character of Louise Mallard‚ further the themes of the story and solidify the tones that the author are trying to set for the story. Of the many tones that are displayed at one point in the “The Story of an Hour” is sadness/depression. When the news of her husband Brently Mallard’s death is broken to Louise Mallard the rest of the family is frighten to tell her because
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planning stage. In the planning stage‚ the main aims for Louise were to provide an activity which would enable her to interact with others and also buy new clothes which would improve her self-esteem and confidence. These aims were set due to the fact that Louise had mentioned previously that she did not feel like she had nice clothes and also that she felt lonely and isolated because she had no one to talk to. We met the aim of helping Louise improve her self-esteem and confidence by taking her
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in the life of Louise Mallard‚ tragically ending with her death. The doctors arrive announcing the cause of death heart disease---of a joy that kills. The first line of this short story originally diagnoses Louise with only a “heart trouble” and yet in the expanse of one hour she is dead supposedly from joy at seeing her husband alive as the last words of the story led the reader to believe. Or ironically is it death from almost obtaining joyous freedom and independence? Louise Mallard was told
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From your reading of the novel so far discuss the relationship between Scobie and his wife Louise. As from the beginning of the novel‚ it becomes quite clear that what Scobie feels for his wife Louise is not really love but a sense of pity and responsibility. Louise has grown to love Scobie over the years‚ but Scobie has not had the same feeling towards her. Louise understands that side of him and accepts that his ‘ I love you’s ‘are empty hearted. His sens of love towards her is more of an
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pattern and thought process of Louise Mallard after she is informed of her husband’s death are explored. Over the course of the hour in which the story takes place Louise has a realization about the constraints she feels in her life and in her marriage. By delineating Louise as a flat and dynamic character‚ Chopin is able to convey her theme that real freedom is found in death. Over the course of the story‚ all the characters are left as fairly flat and undeveloped. Louise is simply described as a young
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