The Ambiguity Of Love And Passion . The Concept Of Love

Her sexuality has been repressed by the constraints of her marriage and society's view of women, represented by the housework being done before the storm hits. Chopin alludes to this theme of suppression again as Alcee is invited into Calixta's home. The author writes, 'Come 'long in, M'sieur Alcee. His voice and her own startled her as if from a trance, and she seized Bobinot's vest. Alcee, mounting to the porch, grabbed the trousers and snatched Bibi's braided jacket that was about to be carried away by a sudden gust of wind.'; Alcee grabs Bobinot's pants, symbolically subverting the social and martial constraints that control Calixta.

In many instances in both novels, women are objectified and dehumanized through the perspective of male characters. At the ‘Cadian Ball has countless instances of this behaviour towards women that take place. Calixta’s sexuality is commented on multiple times throughout the story, yet all of the observations about her are focalized through a male’s perspective. By

The theme of this story seems to be that when Calixta and Alcee had sex and cheated on their marriages, it made their marriages happier, "so the storm passed and everyone was happy"(Chopin 150). Alcee wrote to his wife the night he cheated on her, "it was a loving letter, full of tender solicitude"(150). And after having an affair, the character Alcee seems to care more about his wife and baby, "realizing that their health and pleasure were the first things to be considered"(Chopin 150). He seems to care more about his wife and baby after he cheats on his wife because of the word "realizing." It gives the meaning that he just figured out that their health and pleasure were the first things to be considered. Calixta and Bobinot, as well as Bibi are shown to be very happy and full of laughter after she cheats on Bobinot," when the three seated themselves at table they laughed much and so loud that anyone might have heard them as far away as Laballiere's"(Chopin 149).

The two adulterers had a previous brief romance in a town called Assumption that could never be mentioned or finished. However, the romance and passion wasn't just lacking in Calixta's relationship. It was also lacking in her lover's relationship with his wife, Clarisse. From Clarisse's point of view, she loves her husband, but "their intimate conjugal like was something which she was more than willing to forgo for a while" (Chopin, The Storm 38). No one in this story explicitly says that they are happy or unhappy with their sex life; they all love each other but seem to lack desire. Any person who is around another person for too long will eventually get tired of the other. The couples still love each other, but no one is missing the sexual relationship, or lack there of. Passion, not love, in a sexual relationship will diminish over time. Passion is a hard emotion to conjure up, especially in a time of such repression of women.

The main thing Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia does in the play is tell Caesar to stay at home on the day of his murder because of many unnatural events that have taken place the night before and because she has had

After Calixta meets with Alcee she no longer show signs of frustration or exhaustion; she is now worried about Bobinot and Bibi out in the storm. As Alcee is walking to the porch he “snatched Bibi’s braided jacket that was about to be carried away by a sudden gust of wind” (Chopin 532). This evidence demonstrates Alcee will to obtain anything he

In the story "The Storm", Kate Chopin plots a situation in which two people surrender to their physical desires. Chopin wrote fiction stories in the late 19th century. She was condemned due to the immorality presented in her work. At her times, woman was considered to be very innocent, and always faithful to her husband. In Chopin's work one sees a totally different view of a woman's behavior. She is not a popular writer of her era because of her crude works; the audience of her period could not justify her stories. In the story "the storm", Kate Chopin by hiding the immoral behavior of her characters behind the fear of bad weather is being ironic.

Baptista, from the play, is a contrast to the Ten Things father. He very much desires his daughter's to get married because he doesn't want to risk losing his family's good reputation. We can tell that it is normal for daughter's to be married by their father's and the father is not worried about sex, drugs or alcohol, so we can gather that

With the passing of the storm and the departure of Alcee, Calixta does not revert to her subordinate housewife bonds. Instead, she uses her awakening to discover newfound happiness in her marriage and duties as a wife and mother. When Bobinot and Bibi return, the reader sees a different Calixta than the downtrodden, worried, and selfless Calixta from the beginning of the story. In fact, it is the father and son who must begin ?to relax and enjoy themselves,? not Calixta, who is already joyously preparing dinner (861). At the dinner table, ?they laughed much and so loud that anyone might have heard them? (861). The only other time

It shows him telling her how she is more beautiful than his own wife and how she is a mortal which basically means that she will age and loose her beauty whereas calypso's beauty will stay forever.

Calixta and Alcee had a strong passion for each other. Chopin says: Alcee rides up to her house and asks “if he can take shelter

Calixta’s old love Alcee represents the regrets and wrong decisions she has made. In the story she accidently falls into Alcee’s arms and remained there because of the feelings they both shared for each other. “ When he touched her breasts they gave themselves up in quivering ecstasy, inviting his lips. Her mouth was a fountain of delight, and when he possessed her they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery”(107). When the storm finally passed away, Alcee went had left to continue on his

The conflict between love and lust begins with the contrast between one young man’s true love for Calixta and another’s lust. In the first story, Chopin introduces the reader to Bobinôt, an Acadian farmer, who is day dreaming about Calixta, the “Spanish vixen” (Chopin 1265). With a Cajun background, Bobinôt already possesses a social tension with Alcée, a wealthy Creole planter. Guarino comments on this cultural tension in her ethnic analysis: “Belonging mostly to the lower class, Cajuns have always had a conflict relation to the upper class formed mostly of Creoles” (7). Chopin displays this in the distaste Bobinôt mentally expresses towards Alcée in the first story “At the ‘Cadian Ball.” In addition to the social turmoil between the two men, Chopin further distinguishes between true love and lust by contrasting Bobinôt’s

The main focus of this short story is desire. The desire shown by both Calixta and Alcée for each other is obvious. Many people during the time this short story was written would look at it as being “dirty” or filthy. They would look at the affair as being dishonest and unlawful; similar to the way that some of us today. However, the way Chopin expresses the affair is not at all a sense of guilty. She presences it as if it was something that happens often and that it is a natural thing that humans do. Sexual desire is a natural aspect of people’s lives. Even though she is a strong feminist, she does not limit these sexual desires to just the female character, Calixta. She also dives deep into the desires of a man as well. “Both males and females, she seems to tell us, are complex creatures whom have no choice but to discover their passion, in spite of risks, confusion, and guilt. (Bloom 81)”. According to Per Seyersted, “sex in this story is a force as strong, inevitable, and natural as the Louisiana storm which ignites it” (Koloski 145). She observes sex as being a natural thing that cannot be avoided in or outside of wedlock (Koloski 147). She writes as if this affair was unavoidable to the drives between the two characters.

Calixta does love Bobinôt. When he was out in the storm with Bibi, she was genuinely concerned for him. The sudden passion between Calixta and Alcée is brought on by the fact that it was the first time they had ever been alone. The passion was always there, it was just denied the opportunity to be acted upon. If they were truly in love they would have married when they had the chance. I am not bothered by the happy ending. Even though the story is considered morally wrong, I don’t believe stories are supposed to reinforce the dominant values of a society. I feel they are better served to open our eyes to the issues of society or provide a mental escape from the reality of those values. If this had happened in real life, I think it would