Summarise the story – what exactly happens in this hour?
Louise has heart problems. The news of her husband’s death make her feel like a captive. Alone in her room she feels liberated. She looks forwards to freedom and she feels it coming. While going downstairs the door opens and Mr. Mallard comes in, having no idea about the train accident, in which he ‘was killed’. 2) Choose one interesting sentence/part of the story and explain why it intrigued you. “She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been.” This sentence gave me the feeling of creepiness. The author is trying to make the reader guess the …show more content…
Why do you think so? I think that the author uses situational irony. Louise hasn’t expected her husband to return, but he does. He never heard of the train accident This is situational irony, when the opposite of what is expected happens. 7) What point of view is used? The story is written in third person. 8) How does narrative perspective affect the message of this story? Telling the story in third person allows the author to tell the full story, which is not limited only by the protagonist’s point of view. The full picture of the story is portrayed using third person perspective. 9) What does Josephine represent in the story? What does Richards represent? In my opinion, Josephine represents the
10) What view of marriage does the story present? The story was published in 1894; does it only represent attitudes toward marriage in the nineteenth century, or could it equally apply to attitudes about marriage today? From the story it is clear that Josephine doesn’t want to live with her husband. I can predict that their marriage was forced by her parents. This is why she looks forward to being free from her husband.
11) If this is, in some sense, a story about a symbolic journey, where does Mrs Mallard
Louise has heart problems. The news of her husband’s death make her feel like a captive. Alone in her room she feels liberated. She looks forwards to freedom and she feels it coming. While going downstairs the door opens and Mr. Mallard comes in, having no idea about the train accident, in which he ‘was killed’. 2) Choose one interesting sentence/part of the story and explain why it intrigued you. “She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been.” This sentence gave me the feeling of creepiness. The author is trying to make the reader guess the …show more content…
Why do you think so? I think that the author uses situational irony. Louise hasn’t expected her husband to return, but he does. He never heard of the train accident This is situational irony, when the opposite of what is expected happens. 7) What point of view is used? The story is written in third person. 8) How does narrative perspective affect the message of this story? Telling the story in third person allows the author to tell the full story, which is not limited only by the protagonist’s point of view. The full picture of the story is portrayed using third person perspective. 9) What does Josephine represent in the story? What does Richards represent? In my opinion, Josephine represents the
10) What view of marriage does the story present? The story was published in 1894; does it only represent attitudes toward marriage in the nineteenth century, or could it equally apply to attitudes about marriage today? From the story it is clear that Josephine doesn’t want to live with her husband. I can predict that their marriage was forced by her parents. This is why she looks forward to being free from her husband.
11) If this is, in some sense, a story about a symbolic journey, where does Mrs Mallard