character‚ and point of view that contribute to the theme of the story‚ which is a study of individuality conflicting with oppression. Oppression in general can come from society‚ human beings‚ or even from the same person. In this short story‚ Louise is being oppressed by all three groups aforementioned. She is oppressed by society in having to conform to a certain stereotypical method of mourning‚ oppressed by her husband and their marriage‚ and oppressed by her own heart‚ which dares not continue
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at the end of the story‚ the woman’s death shows that it is premature to think that women can recover their autonomy. The story begins when Louise Mallard hears the news of her husband Brently’s death in a train wreck from Richards‚ her husband’s friend‚ and Josephine‚ her sister. Because Louise has heart disease‚ they tell the news with great care. Louise first feels a great loss and cries. Then she goes to her room alone. Gazing vacantly out the window‚ she comes to discover her new side of which
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desired something so badly‚ that it kills you inside? Well‚ in weak-hearted Louise Mallard’s case‚ it literally kills her. In “The Story of an Hour‚” freedom is a prohibited indulgence that is kept only in the privacy of her own thoughts. When her sister carefully explains that her husband‚ Brently Mallard‚ has passed away‚ Mrs. Mallard breaks down in tears. However‚ after resorting to isolation in her empty bedroom‚ Louise begins to realize that she is now a completely free woman‚ a recognition that
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Joy That Kills How would one react to finding out their husband has just died? In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”‚ wife Louise Mallard is told that her husband has been killed. At first Louise is shocked until she retires upstairs where she encounters many different emotions and even an epiphany. But at the end of the story the husband walks in the door . . . alive. The sudden shock of seeing her husband alive ends up killing her. Louise’s personality and actions leading up to‚ during
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or if the irony is in the narrator’s tone after all and that there is a deeper tale in this literary piece. As the news of the tragedy that is her husband’s death is laid upon her‚ Louise Mallard wept. As normal as you might think this reaction is‚ when you really ponder upon it‚ you will realize that if you were Louise‚ you would not have reacted in the same way. The reality of the situation would not have been your initial thought and you wouldn’t have wept just yet. You do not simply accept such
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Louise does in “The Story of an Hour” described as “joy that kills”‚ because she saw that her husband is still alive. However‚ she did not die of excitement to see her husband. She died due to the fact that she was not free anymore. A few moments after the mortifying news of her husband’s death‚ Louise starts to dream about how her life is going to be from now on. She was more relieved that she was not going to be controlled or told how to live her life. “She saw beyond that bitter moment along
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Deaf like Me The book starts with Louise and Thomas a couple who has one child‚ a son‚ Bruce. When Bruce is three‚ he gets German measles or rubella. After finding this out‚ Louise discovers that‚ she is pregnant with their second child. When Louise took Bruce to the doctor to get all of the information on the measles‚ the doctor was worried about Louise’s pregnancy‚ even thought she was not very far along. The doctor said that being around someone with these measles could possibly cause congenital
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there are many symbols used to depict the two themes of alienation and the quest for one’s own identity. Each of the symbols develop a deeper meaning to each of those themes. Kate Chopin’s use of symbols gave deeper meanings to the alienation that Louise felt and quest for identity that she needed and wanted. The feeling of alienation is one theme in Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour”. First of all the theme of alienation is when a character’s attempt to define their relationship with society leads
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“The story of an hour‚” by Kate Chopin focuses on the idea of freedom. This short story is about the protagonist‚ named Louise‚ who finds out that her husband has been in an accident and died. She has many feelings‚ but the one that she enjoyed the most was the freedom she would now have. “Hence‚ Brentley’s death is not tragic to her because it gives her own life back to her” (Rosenblum‚ 7). Her freedom is quickly taken away from her‚ when her husband walks through the front door. The theme is‚ even
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