- We women and man are equal
ABSTRACT: We have lived in a male dominated society for more than 11 years since 2000. During these 11 years, we female have never ever stopped fighting for our own rights, no matter it’s the voting right or the working right. Kate Chopin – the forerunner of the feminist authors, started her fight for female’s rights from the early in the 19th century. In an era when most of the people don’t even have the idea of gender equality. “The story of an hour” is one of her famous feminist works. The author find some of the evidences of Kate Chopin’s feminism thoughts in “the story of an hour” by analyzing the inner spirits of this novel.
Introduction
During Kate Chopin’s 20 years of writing life she wrote many works to reflect the society’s reality that the women were dominated by the society, or more specifically, the man. They couldn’t vote; they can’t do anything without their husband’s permissions. What’s worse, they don’t even have the ability to speak for themselves. After seeing these unfair phenomenon Kate Chopin decided to fight for those women, also for herself, by using the most …show more content…
She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’ s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” (Para 3). This is the foreshadowing for the later “awakening” of the heroine, Louise Mallard. From this part we can find that women seem determined to be fragile and hopeless when facing some desperate situations, and women couldn’t live without their husband since they had already determined by their husband. Although Mrs. Mallard do have some of the common reactions with the other women, she have something more important – the clam and the ability to control herself which would become one of the most important elements for her later