Analysis Of The Five-Forty-Eight

Since the beginning of time, women have been treated as second class citizens. Therefore, women were forced to face many problems. Because of this women were repressed. At that time, the Napoleonic Code stated that women were controlled by their husbands and cannot freely do their own will without the authority of their husband. This paper shows how this is evident in the "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and " A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. In both stories, the use of literary elements such as foreshadowing, symbolism, and significant meaning of the titles are essential in bringing the reader to an unexpected and ironic conclusion.

1. Throughout the story suspense is aroused and maintained excellently. This is achieved by the character the author creates. Mr. Martin is characterized as a neat and cautious man, who never took a smoke or a drink in his life. Our suspense is aroused when the author states that it has been “a week to the day since Mr. Martin had decided to rub out Mrs. Ulgine Barrows”. This arouses our suspense because we are told Mr. Martin is planning to murder this woman. The suspense is maintained with Mr. Martin’s thoughts. We as an audience are given his thoughts through the use of the 3rd person omniscient point of view. His thoughts are mostly on the issue on his dislike of Mrs. Barrows. Because of this, he

One technique Richard Connell uses to create suspense is foreshadowing because in the beginning of the story he talks about how the island has a bad reputation, and he talks about how General Zaroff and Rainsford hunt together. First in the beginning of the story, Whitney and Rainsford talk about an island the yacht they are on is passing by and how it has a bad reputation. According to the text Whittney tells Rainsford, “‘It’s rather a mystery’... ‘The old charts call it ‘Ship-Trap Island’... ‘The place has a reputation--a bad one’” (Connell 1). The author is clearly using foreshadowing because he writes about an island that Rainsford will later get trapped on and how the Island has a bad reputation. This creates suspense because it makes the reader nervous about the island, making the reader want to know what makes the mysterious island so scary and dangerous. Next, toward the middle of the story, during dinner at General Zaroff’s mansion General Zaroff and Rainsford talk about the hunts General Zaroff like to go on and how Rainsford should join his next one. According to the text General Zaroff says to Rainsford, “‘Tonight,’ said the general, ‘we will hunt---you and I” (10). The author is clearly using foreshadowing because he writes about how Rainsford and General Zaroff will go on a hunt together where General Zaroff will hunt Rainsford. This creates suspense because it makes the reader want to know what General Zaroff likes to hunt and how

Every good story has some part where it gets suspenseful. In the stories, “The Most Dangerous Game,” “Liberty,” and “Harrison Bergeron” there were situations of intense suspense. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” an example of suspense is when Rainsford was noticed by Zaroff while he was laying on the branch. “The general’s eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring. But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face.” That was a suspenseful situation because Zaroff easily found Rainsford, and just smiled before leaving him unharmed. In “Liberty” an example of suspense is when the narrator was taking Liberty to her cage, and strange men tried stealing Liberty and kidnapping the narrator. “Two strange men in dark glasses were crouched behind the hedge. The fat one had seized Liberty by the collar and was pulling so hard on it that poor Liberty was almost standing on his hind legs.” That was a suspenseful situation because two strangers tried kidnapping the narrator it wouldn’t have ended so well, because they could have used her to scare her family into

This essay intends to examine these particular stories; one is "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor and "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. This paper intends to explore the literary examine and how they are devised in these stories. It will further illustrate the major themes in the stories captured through the eyes of authors in different ways. It is stated that O'Connor is famous for her satire and dark sense of humor. Although, she reflects the moralistic touch of a Christian due to her religious influence. The story of O'Connor starts from a grandmother who is going to visit the relatives along with her family. But she is quite worried when reads in the paper about a serial killer who has escaped from the prison. The moralistic

There are many devices that lead to suspense, one being the device of foreshadowing. It appears many times through the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. It is used to create an atmosphere that keeps the reader entertained. One example of this is, “The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are the hunters.” (Connell 8). This quote is an example of foreshadowing because it gives you clues to what is going to happen. It gives you a clue to the fact he is not really the hunter, but in fact, the hunted.

Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour is a brilliant short story of irony and emotion. The story demonstrates conflicts that take us through the character’s emotions as she finds out about the death of her husband. Without the well written series of conflicts and events this story, the reader would not understand the depth of Mrs. Mallard’s inner conflict and the resolution at the end of the story. The conflict allows us to follow the emotions and unfold the irony of the situation in “The Story of an Hour.”

As a whole, the exposition is used by Richard Connell as a means of creating suspense because its pace is slowed down to a point that leaves readers waiting in suspense for what will happen next but with it still moving enough to prevent it from getting too boring.

Short story analysis In this analysis I will look at a short story called ?Nineteen Fifty-Five? from ?You can?t keep a good woman down? written by Alice Walker. I will analyse the short story by looking at the title, characters, theme, point of view, plot, structure/form and the style.

In another similar short story called, “Five-Forty-Eight” by John Cheever, a character by the name of Miss Dent was a young woman with mental problems and was lonely. The victim is also tested when she has the ability to put an end to her victimizer but turns away from it. Oates and Cheever both examine why weak women fall prey to powerful men due to internal and external factors. Women will fall prey to powerful men because they do not feel highly of themselves internally. Their character is always dependent on their man and try to do everything to please their man so they believe that they are pleasing themselves.

Soon, excitement wears off, and reality sets in. For many generations, even into the early twentieth century, women all over the world fall as victims into the deep, never-ending hole of domestic violence. In “The Story of an Hour,” Louise Mallard accepts her fate as being submissive and obedient to her husband even though her life as the “perfect wife” is nothing less than torturous. In “A Jury of Her Peers,” the self-confidence and self-esteem of Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters are continuously diminished publicly by their husbands. Mr. Peters puts down the very act of Mrs. Minnie’s household duties when he states, “Well, can you beat the women!

In the short story, “The Story of an Hour,” author Kate Chopin presents the character of Mrs. Louis Mallard. She is an unhappy woman trapped in her discontented marriage. Unable to assert herself or extricate herself from the relationship, she endures it. The news of the presumed death of her husband comes as a great relief to her, and for a brief moment she experiences the joys of a liberated life from the repressed relationship with her husband. The relief, however, is short lived. The shock of seeing him alive is too much for her bear and she dies. The meaning of life and death take on opposite meaning for Mrs. Mallard in her marriage because she lacked the courage to stand up for herself.

Fulfillment of desire is human nature, an aspect of a person that is universal. Throughout the story of ‘Ethan Frome’ by Edith Wharton, the self-titled protagonist struggles to fulfill his own desires, battling social norms as well as his own morality. Even when the whole situation has been set out to work perfectly for Frome, he cannot bring himself to cheat on his wife, an aspect that is admiring, but ultimately self-crippling. His indecisiveness is not only an aspect that drives the whole story forward, but a trait that leads to his own undoing. In a final twist of irony, the penultimate scene of the story not only sums up the consequences of the characters’ mistakes, but as well as a fate that coincides with the very same social and moral

In Susan Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers, she writes a clue seeking story of how the sheriff will find enough evidence to charge Minnie Wright of the murder of her husband John. The story starts off with Mr. Hale telling his story of how he went over to the Wright’s only to learn Mr. Wright was dead. The story then focuses on the two women Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, as they discover more and more evidence in the kitchen while they are gathering things to take to Minnie Wright in jail. Glaspell uses character conflict, and plot to help guide the reader into a story about moral conflict.

At one point in time, all beings on this Earth have faced a conceited appetite that derives from envy, greed, hatred or lust. Whether hogging the remote control from irritable siblings or making a crucial decision which benefits one are the verdicts, this gluttonous behaviour is one that can only lead to woe. Similarly, Anton Chekhov’s “A Trifle From Life” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, display the after-effects of a selfish demeanour. Chekhov’s character Belyaev selfishly coaxes a naive boy for answers, which consequently sparks a monstrous argument between him and his lover, Olga. Moreover, Chopin’s protagonist Louise egotistically finds euphoria in the presumed death of her husband, resulting in her own demise. Therefore, the moral compass of both Louise Mallard and Nikolai Ilitch Belyaev are narcissistic; thus showcasing that avaricious behaviour, ironically, originates both adults' downfall.