Desiree's Baby Thesis

I love you I love you, Oh I feel it all it my stomach! Many times, people think that love is suppose to be a certain way. Who are you to say what love is or how it should be? A lot of romance happen in stories. In “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, Armand and Desiree loved each other the way they wanted to love each other, who puts a definition on love? One day things can be bad and the next day things can be good. In the story “Desiree’s Baby” everything about Armand and Desiree love was great until he found out that she was biracial and not completely white. I told you love does not have a specific definition because if so he would’ve loved her no matter about the color on the inside or outside of her skin. Love shouldn’t have a race and this

“Désirée’s Baby” is a story of love, prejudice and rejection, a story with noble beginnings that

Sometimes the hardest thing for an individual to do is taking a stance against the culture they live in, and sometimes the people who take the stance are underappreciated. Sadly, this is story of a talented writer named Kate Chopin; who took a stance against her environment with her writing, most notably in her short story, “Desiree’s Baby”. Chopin’s short story “Desiree’s Baby” uses the themes of naturalism, realism, and the usage of irony to expose the hypocrisy of racism.

In late 19th century Louisiana, sexism and racism are highly prevalent in society. An orphaned child, Desiree, falls in love with Armand who is the owner of a plantation. After they marry, Desiree gives birth to a boy who will carry on Armand’s name. When it shows that the boy has dark skin, Armand’s pride hinders his love for his family. Kate Chopin displays the theme of pride through the use of color, conflict and imagery in her short story “Desiree’s Baby”.

The story Desiree’s Baby is about a young woman who is adopted by a two wealthy french creoles that live in Louisiana. Monsieur and Madame Valmonde adopted Desiree when she was found as a young infant by a pillar near the gate of their estate. The story then follows Desiree as she matures into a young woman and is married to a man named Armand whom which she loves very much. Armand and desiree soon have a child and both are extremely happy about the child but Armand soon pulls away both his compassion and happiness when he see’s something wrong with the child. Armand realises that the child is has some black in it, which happens to be the skin color of slavery. Shamed Armand blames Desiree for his child being part black seeing that Desiree’s

Kate Chopin’s Desiree’s Baby is a short story about a girl named Desiree who is abandoned, then adopted into a wealthy family. Young Desiree soon grows up and falls in love with a slave owner, Armand,with whom she conceives a son with only to discover that her child's appearance consists of African descent characteristics. Chopin narrates the issues of oppression and loss of identity during a historical period of time through Desiree’s character. Derek Foster and Kris LeJeune's critique, focusing on the feminist standpoint of Desiree’s Baby, attempts to demonstrates how Desiree’s act to flee into the bayou is her first accomplishment of independence.

In the story “Desiree's Baby” Kate Chopin uses Slavery and Racism in the theme for this story. In Desiree's baby, the servants noticed how the child had something wrong with the skin tone and that caused the conflict between the mother and the father. The author uses human vs human conflicts while also including racism and sexism to the theme.

She was very proud of the fact that her great-grandfather had owned so much land with so many slaves, but she did show a tad bit of moral ambiguity when she spoke to the little black boy. It sounds weird but thinking that she has always been a racist since she was a little girl, but she loves children enough to let that slide. She could’ve acted no different to that little boy with his mother but instead she treated him like any other boy she would have met on the street. “To Julian's disappointment, the little boy climbed up on the empty seat beside his mother. His mother lumped all children, black and white, into the common category, “cute,” and she thought little Negroes were on the whole cuter than little white children. She smiled at the little boy as he climbed on the seat.” (O’Connor

This essay will focus on the short story by Kate Chopin and its use of symbols, setting and characters. Desiree’s baby was perhaps one of the best stories I’ve ever read. Analyzing it was not easy at all. Its use of symbols was very hard to comprehend. At first, it doesn’t make sense. But as you think critically, all the symbols, and setting and the characters in this literature plunge together in one amazing story.

“Desiree’s Baby” uses foreshadowing to illustrate the theme of prejudice. First, Madame Valomonde, in a startled tone, stated, “This is not the baby!” Madame Valomonde’s statement foreshadows that there is something wrong with the child. This statement doesn’t explain what is startling about the child. Next, the author states, “Madame Valmonde had never removed her eyes from the child. She lifted it and walked with it over to the window that was lightest. She scanned the baby narrowly, then looked as searchingly at Zandrine, whose face was turned to gaze across the fields.” This statement foreshadows that the baby’s difference has something to do with how the baby and Zandrine compare. Finally, Madame Valomonde states, “Yes, the child has grown, has changed;” Madame Valomonde’s statement foreshadows that the baby has changed in a certain way that doesn’t include growing. We can assume that Madame

Thesis statement: During the 19th century social class was more important than values, as the story focuses on Armand being ashamed of his baby due to his color, which creates conflict for him.

Désirée's Baby is story about two people who's baby separate racial appearance come into question their own background and ultimately their decisions as it pertains to society during that time. Armond at first site loved Désirée for her beauty despite being told her background. They were happily married until Désirée had her baby, after seeing the baby he began to see Désirée as ugly. According to society the color black was deemed as ugly and anyone who was black should be considered a slave. Sense he married and had kids with a woman whom he perceived to be black, he abandoned her out of fear of losing his families name, a name in which denotes his class in society. Armand's attitude toward Désirée demonstrates fear of society's racial and

The history of interracial relationships in America is a painfully loaded issue which is still evolving in the consciousness of the 20th century. Because the first instances of sexual integration occurred under the institution of slavery, our understanding of them is necessarily beset with dominance, violence, and rape. Interracial relationships and the children they produced became another manifestation of power relationships between whites and blacks in our contorted social atmosphere. Even to the present day, interracial relationships are often looked upon as being propelled by impure motives and

Moreover, when Aubigny knows about his child, his manner toward Desiree changes dramatically; `when he spoke to her, it was with averted eyes, from which the old love-light seemed to have gone out. He absented himself from home; and when there, avoided her presence and that of her child, without excuse.' Desiree dares not ask him about this change because she fears his anger. He should have thought of her questioning him, later on, about the baby being colored or not; his blind irrationality precludes him from taking assimilating that if his wife hadn't been white, she would not have asked him about the child. If anyone examines his behavior, they would definitely conclude that it is not the appropriate behavior toward a woman, and above all, his a devoted wife.

Unfortunately, Armand’s over value of race rubs off onto Desiree. Not knowing her true race, Desiree cannot live with the dissatisfaction of herself, her husband’s disgrace, nor that fact that he does not love her or the baby anymore. She cannot awake from the nightmare that her life has turned into. She takes the baby and wanders out into a deserted field where she and the baby perish. Thus Armand is to blame for destroying his family because of his obsession with status and the white race.