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    have is supposed to be unbreakable‚ strong‚ and they are supposed to mutually love each other. In the 1800’s‚ this was not usually the case. The wife’s sole purpose in life was to reproduce and spend the rest of their lives serving their husband. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”‚ Louise Mallard was married to Brently Mallard who had never looked save with love upon her. Even though he loved her‚ he was controlling‚ there would be no powerful will bending hers. Many marriages during this time

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    Unwanted Life Occasionally people will run across a couple who do not seem to have that marriage everyone desires to possess. In many cases these relationships are unhealthy because they feel imprisoned in a marriage they simply do not want. In both Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Gail Godwin’s “A Sorrowful Woman‚” this is what seems to be the reality for these two couples. At the time these stories are set in‚ both women are expected by society to have a healthy‚ loving relationship with

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    “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is an emotional story where Mrs. Mallard has a heart condition‚ and everyone treats her like a fragile vase being very careful around her. After news that her husband has passed away gets to her sister‚ they try to break the news gently. Mrs. Mallard goes into her room crying and suddenly realizes that she is finally free. Her sister continually checks on her until she comes out. When they are headed back down stairs‚ her husband walks through the door‚ and Mrs

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    several other themes‚ we see Eliza Doolittle of Pygmalion and Edna Pontellier of The Awakening transform dramatically. Comparably‚ these women are quite opposite in almost every way but their stories posses many parallel threads. Bernard Shaw and Kate Chopin affectively apply the struggle for change‚ independence‚ and self-discovery in these two works. Eliza Doolittle’s transformation is only external to begin with. She starts as an uncultivated ragamuffin selling flowers on the curb. Her ill-formed

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    some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and her soul. She grew daring and reckless‚ overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out‚ where no woman had swum before" (Lombardi). The Awakening by Kate Choplin is about a married woman‚ Edna Pontellier‚ finding independence and self-knowledge. The book begins in a place called Grand Isle where the Pontellier family is vacationing. In the beginning‚ Edna is just like the rest of the women vacationing

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    First & Last Name English 101/Section # Date Essay #6 Disappointment       "The Story of an Hour" is a short story in which Kate Chopin‚ the author‚ presents an often unheard of view of marriage. Mrs. Louise Mallard‚ Chopin’s main character‚ experiences the exhilaration of freedom rather than the desolation of loneliness after she learns of her husband’s death. Later‚ when Mrs. Mallard learns that her husband‚ Brently‚ still lives‚ she know that all hope of freedom is gone. The crushing disappointment

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    The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin depicts a character by the name of Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard is an older woman who has heart troubles and is being given the news of a railroad disaster in which her husband‚ Brently Mallard‚ was killed. Her situation may happen to others pretty often but most people believe that this is a one in a million occurrence because it hasn’t happened too often. However‚ the situation in which Mrs. Mallard currently finds herself in ties into the rest of the work because

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    Kernel’s and Satellites Kate Chopin’s story‚ "The Story of an Hour" is an ironic short story of a wife in the late 1800’s. The story is only a few pages long and in doing so Chopin writes a story filled with kernel’s (events that have important causal chronological coherence) with very few satellite’s (events not logically essential to the narrative action). There were no satellites that I could find while reading the text; I found every word written essential to the narrative‚ the progression and

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    question our existence. Scholars and historians spend entire lifetimes discussing the realms of possibilities. Many people believe that mankind searches for the answer to life out of arrogance or just self-pity. Mrs. Pontellier‚ the protagonist in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening‚ is textual evidence of a woman who becomes self-realized through an overcoming awakening. Her awakening helps her to perceive the world through her own eyes‚ to overcome the binding obstacles of society‚ and to discover what

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    nakedness at the end of the novel symbolizes her freedom from any claims her children may have on her and shows how her lack of clothes is equal to her lack of ‘responsibility’‚ of her family and the 1890s’ society. Through the motif of clothes‚ Kate Chopin suggests that although society can be restricting‚ in order to have discipline‚ rules can be necessary. Can be destructive‚ lack of rules can lead to destruction of self.   The symbol of clothing in the story shows the development of her

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