Comparing Story Of An Hour And Desiree's Baby, By Kate Chopin

Louise Mallard began to grief her husband’s death in Josephine’s arm. When alone in the room the sobbing had stopped. She then reveals great joy as Louise realizes

The “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and ‘”The Hand” by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette are similar in theme and setting. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette and Kate Chopin create the theme of obligatory love and the unhappiness it entails. Both stories illustrate the concealed emotions many women feel in their marriage yet fail to express them. The two stories take place in a sacred room of the house and both transpire in a brief amount of time. The differences between the two stories are seen through the author’s choice of characters in each story. In “The story of an Hour” Kate Chopin involves other characters in Mrs. Mallard’s life, whereas, “The Hand” deals with marriage and togetherness and only involves the husband and wife. Symbolism is

In the past many decades the definition of what a marriage means changed dramatically in some areas. For the author of both stories, Kate Chopin, she wanted the reader to get something out of the story. She likes to explore all types of themes in her stories such as, racism, the roles of women, and adultery. With these themes and messages she struggled to have most of her stories published. In many of her stories she passed along these messages through the manner of a marriage. In her short stories “The Story of an Hour” and “Desiree 's Baby” she showed just how different marriages could be as well as how similar they can be. Chopin portrays the lives of the main characters, Louise Mallard from “The Story of An Hour” and Desiree Aubigny

When first reading Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," one may not typically be surprised at its ending, write it off as one of those creepy "back from the dead" horror stories and forget about it. There is more to this story than simply horror. The author is making a very strong, however subtle, statement towards humanity and women's rights. Through subtle symbolism, Kate Chopin shows how marriage is more like a confining role of servitude rather than a loving partnership.

“Story of an Hour” and “The Storm” are both written by Kate Chopin. Both of these stories display the desires of two women, who live in the 19th Century, for independence and happiness. Women were considered to be the weaker of the two sexes, therefore, they are better suited for domestic duties. Society assumed that women longed to marry because it granted them the opportunity to become mothers rather than to pursue sexual or emotiuonal satisfaction.

Louise wants to live her own life, she wants to be her own person but she cannot because of the restrictions her husband and even her sister put on her. Louise has a heart condition and that along with her husband stop her from living freely and doing what she wants. She cannot divorce her husband because women in this time were supposed to have a husband, they were thought of as lesser. Women were seen as feeble and weaker than men in the late 19th century. When Louise realizes the silver lining of her husband’s death means she can finally be free of her oppression she is overrun with joy.

Firstly, we, and Louise Mallard herself, expect her to be very upset about her husband, Brently,’s death, and for a little while she is, but soon she comes to believe that she is better off single than married and then only cries because she had started and could not stop. Secondly, she believes her husband dead, but he really is not. Thirdly, her sister believes that she is very upset about her husband’s “death” but she is not and is really celebrating in her room. Lastly, when she dies from the shock of seeing her husband alive again, the doctors proclaim her dead of joy at seeing him alive again, and say that it was because of her heart problems, but she really died of a broken heart. "

The beginning of the story sets the theme for the whole story. We are told about the heart condition that inflicts Louise. This is significant throughout the story. The heart condition is a symbolic way of describing her thoughts of oppression she felt about her marriage. She was trapped and isolated by the marriage. She felt the need to hide these feelings. Women of her era were supposed to be home and under their husbands command. The story has her going through this journey privately. That is significant in the fact that now in her husband’s passing, she will be alone. She will need to work through things by herself. She will be able to go through the whole process on her own, without being judged and persuaded to feel differently.

Kate Chopin and Saki are both dramatic authors in these two short stories. “The Interlopers” by Saki, and “The Story of an Hour” by Chopin, are two different stories with only the dramatic ending as a similarity. In this compare and contrast essay, you will be able to clearly see their differences in character, and climax with their ending tying them together.

Alongside this plausibility, the lady likewise passes away because of a cardiac illness. It is stated towards the end, “ ‘Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door- you will make yourself ill.’ ”(Chopin 631). The woman could be in a physically unstable condition due to the traumatizing event that just occurred. Which may have caused a form of hysteria, which ironically caused her to feel the joy in her husband’s death. This is the only rational reason why she passed away. Chopin uses Louise’s “heart trouble” as irony and to show that a broken heart can damage someone even to death. It was ironic because Louise feels joy rather than grief. Proofing this, it's stated that she had “died of heart disease- of joy that kills” (Chopin 632). While an ordinary lady may pass on because of deplorability, this lady did not bite the dust a similar way. Rather than a domineering measure of distress being the reason for her heart issue, it was a staggering sentiment flexibility and delight. The utilization of the expression "heart inconvenience" infers that Louise's heart couldn't deal with such a freeing passing, rather than a run of the mill heart

Chopin first creates the character of Louise having heart trouble allowing the reader to anticipate something unpleasant happening. The heart trouble allows readers to infer Louise having trouble in love or a relationship. Another important detail the author gives is when Louis hears about her husband's "death." Louise feels immediate abandonment and skips denial in the grieving process. Louise never once questions her husband's death leading to her feeling of freedom.

From the opening it is mentioned that Louise has heart trouble, so everything has to be told to her in the calmest, most sudden matter in order to prevent accidents. Her weak heart can be seen as a symbol of the oppresing situation she finds herself in. “She carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory,” downstairs as if she had triumphed over her previous state of oppression; however, she did not know that there was something there, something that would take her freedom away. Consequently, when she saw Brently Mallard enter, she died of heart disease “of the joy that kills.” Furthermore, this event was ironic since her death was caused by the understanding of the unbearable impositions over her life that came with having a husband rather than of

A life with no creative outlet or freedom of expression is arguably no life at all. The model Victorian woman is one who does not even have these basic rights. She is expected to devote her entire existence to her family and run the household that her husband owns. This ideal woman is supposed to have minimal care for her own ideas, curiosities, and emotions; leaving her unable to express her creativity or intellect. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” discusses the “awakening,” the realization of her freedom and potential to express herself, of the main character, Louise Mallard.

I continue to evaluate Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” as being mainly Victorian in its literary conventions, attitudes, and story. In effect, the story’s ideas progress past Victorianism (some say feminism/Chopin might beg to differ), with the subject of women’s independence from men and Louise’s abrupt recognition of it. Comparable to the mid-to-late 19th century suffragists of the time, Chopin addresses the idea of gender inequality, with her relatively non-traditional character, Louise. However, despite Chopin’s creation of an unconventional Victorian woman, the story still holds to many Victorian constraints of gender, as well as the readers of the era’s exceptions. Thus, Chopin doesn’t go “too” far in openly advocating a parting from

Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour is a great story that conveys an important message about life and how difficult it can be for women, particularly in previous centuries. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when this story was written, women were quite often mistreated and had to live restricted lives that lacked opportunity. Generally, women weren?t liberated during the 19th century. Traditionally, women did all the hard work in the house and had no opportunities to make their own living or pursue their own personal dreams. Kate Chopin does an outstanding job of portraying a woman living in these times. The Story of an Hour is a good depiction of the unspoken repression that women faced in the past. Kate Chopin's major theme of the