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    individual they shouldn’t be focused on the typical women stereotypes and they should become focus on what they want to do and achieve instead of focusing on the typical women stereotypes. The story “The Story of an Hour” by Chopin about this character named Mrs. Mallard who has heart disease and then later in the story she finds out that her husband dies from a train accident. She was in tears and crying for days and never wanted to leave her room. One day she realized that she doesn’t really need her

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    “The Story of an Hour” The story of an hour’s theme is about freedom. It tells about how Mrs. Mallard feels about freedom. The message it sends is that freedom can be stripped away from you within a small amount of time‚ and how it can come unexpectedly. The word free starts to repeat in Mrs. Mallard’s head and soon she starts to say it over and over. In the story her sister‚ Josephine was the one who told Mrs. Mallard about the death of her husband. Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble so they took great

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    many people‚ especially to women‚ it is denied under different pretexts‚ including “protection”‚ “possessions” and even “love”. The short story “The Story of an Hour” was written by the author Kate Chopin during a period when women were considered as no more than mere possessions of their husbands and “women’s liberation’ didn’t even exist as a word. The story represents a negative view of marriage by presenting Mrs. Mallard‚ a woman who is overjoyed that her husband has died in a train wreck. After

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    ENGISH 1121 The Story of an Hour and The Necklace share many similarities and also many differences; both explore the feeling that both wives harbor towards their husbands and the lack of communication that both wives share. In this essay I will discuss the similarities and differences that the two short stories share with regards to communication. In Guy de Maupassant’s "The Necklace" is the story of Mathilde Loisel‚ who resents her "station" in life. Mathilde Loisel is shown to be a vain

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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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