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    break out of the limits imposed on them, but were chained by the traditional gender roles.. The recurring tone of irony and drama along with the motif of crying, in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an hour, were used to develop the themes of forbidden joy and oppression within marriages. The main tone of The Story of an Hour is ironic, highlighting the fact that Mrs. Mallard’s marriage was the opposite of what everyone thought it was. Josephine believed that her sister was consumed by grief, when in truth

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    In “The Story of an Hour”, the author Kate Chopin Presents an unusual marriage. Louise Mallard, the protagonist of this short story experiences a sense of relief and happiness when she is informed that her husband has passed away due to a train wreck. However, when she discovers that Mr. Mallard is alive she feels all chances of being free from this marriage have faded away. Learning that her husband had not passed away from the tragic train wreck that was revealed to her was so much of a disappointment

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    Dr. Robert Meade ENGL 110 26 September 2017 Images of Confinement and Escape in “The Story of an Hour” Images of confinement and escape in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. Is shown all throughout the story, Mrs. Mallard felt trapped she did not seem happy at all. The feeling of freedom seemed to take over Mrs. Mallard body. Her exhaustion seems to confine her so when Mrs. Mallard heard the

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    at some points in their lives are tripped by their marriage. The story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin is a story about a women who is sad at first when she hear the news of her husband’s death feels release when she realizes that she is free from her marriage and finally dramatically died of shock because of seeing her husband alive. From the story it is clear that there are many objects that are actually important symbols. In the Story of anHour two of the most important symbols are the heart trouble

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    The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, is a wonderful short story filled with many different peculiar twists and turns. Written in 1894, the author tells a tale of a woman who learns of her husband’s death, but comes to find joy in it. Many of the things Kate Chopin writes about in this story symbolize something more than just the surface meaning. Through this short story, told in less than one thousand one hundred words, Kate Chopin illustrates deeper meanings through many different forms of symbolism

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    “The Story of an Hour” is a (1) fictional story inspired by the outlook and feelings of Kate Chopin, an author of (2) literature, despite the expectations regarding women during the Victorian Era. The (4) short story was originally published in Vogue Magazine in 1894. Louis Mallard, the main character, is used throughout the story to produce numerous (8) themes that revolve around the Victorian Era. The (55) Victorian Era was characterized by change and development, which included life goals that

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    In The Story of an Hour the phrase “the joy that kills” ends the story in such a dramatic way. This phrase gives everyone that reads this story a different idea of what is meant by the “the joy that kills.” There are two different meanings that I gain from the interpretation of this phrase. Within the story the wife thought that her husband was dead so she was sad. Though she was sad, she began to think of what his death meant to her own life. With her husband being dead it meant that she could have

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    Antonio Anteola Professor Sophia Funk Enc1102 / 869023 3 September 2015 An Analysis On The Story of an Hour In the story of an hour, Kate Chopin has depicted a tone amongst many wives of the late nineteenth century. Women, by this time, were very far from the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution or the “Women’s Suffrage Movement.” What this explains is that women of this era are still being undermined by society, neither unequal nor independent from that of the voice of the masculine gender

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    Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” narrates a wife’s discovery of her husband’s death and her fatal reaction to this false revelation. Josephine and Richards take caution in telling Louise Mallard about the news of Mr. Mallard’s death because she has a frail heart. In lament of her husband’s death, she storms into her room while expressing her great grief. As she looks out the window of her bedroom, she sees a scenic spring day and is engulfed with a wave of joy in realization that she is free

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    In the short story , “ The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin the author delivers a rather complex story of a normal marriage. The entire story is about Mrs Mallard who is sickly woman married to Brently Mallard who then dies in a railway accident. As she learns about her husband 's death she is rather joyful than sad since his death gave her a taste of freedom. In the end, Mrs Mallard faces with the disappointing reality of her husband being alive which ultimately kills her with shock. The exceptionally

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