Carpe Diem In Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

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Carpe diem is to seize the day; enjoy the present,as opposed to placing all hopes in the future. The modern saying of carpe diem is YOLO;you only live once. The yolo is encourage you to act on impulse.For example”Ask that girl out. YOLO” It is to forget about the outcome of the situation, live the way you want to live and to not be scared of things going wrong. It is about living in the moment and enjoying your life. Carpe diem is about to plan your day, and live to the fullest. Don’t ever take life for granted, always take good care of yourself. The life you live is your decision,and you should make the most out of it or else you will regret it down the road. You should never regret a decision you made and you just move forward, make the …show more content…
“Mrs Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble,great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death”(Kate Chopin,525) Nobody wants to hear a news that will change their life forever and will always hurts. “She wept at once,with sudden wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”(kate chopin,525) She started crying, however it ended rather quickly and it was very strange. If somebody lost their significant others they should be depressed for a lot longer than she did.”When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath:”free,free,free!” The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.They stayed keen and bright. Her pulse beat fast and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body”(Kate Chopin,525) She finally felt freed from the clutches of her husband which was her burden that restricted her from living her life the way she want to.”It was brently Mallard who entered...When the doctor came they said she had died of heart disease--of joy that kills”(Kate Chopin,525) In fact she didn’t die from the joy ,she died because the feeling of the burden that was killing her before, came back too quickly. I couldn’t imagine myself going back to my old …show more content…
Carpe diem is there to push us through the unknown and to achieve fullness in our lives. We have made many theories of what happens when we die. Some say we go to heaven or hell, some say we reincarnate in another living thing, and some we just stop living. “Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me./From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures bee,/Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow.”(John Donne,1106) Life is the most scary part in the whole process, dying is the best part since the unknow is likely not to be. Think as heaven as a place without worry you will know what will happen for eternity and there's not suprises. The fun part about life is the little down and ups, carpe diem pushes you to spread your wings and make the most out of your life since once you are dead everything is choosen for you. Every day will be an up however the challenge of life is to bring the downs in your life up and it is the best feeling in the world.”And death shall be no more;Death shalt die.” Once you understand that death is just a passage to a break from your downs than death will not be scary anymore. Death is only as powerful as we make it be since being scared of something control your life,we should push through and conquer our fears in

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