Thought out all my english class in high school and my interactions with all the books I have read. Irony makes a play or story more enjoyable because it add life and excitement and keep me hook in with the reading. The Kate Chopin in The Story of An Hour is using to create and atmospheric tone and effect the characters and enforces the read to have an emotional response.
Authors can use irony to make their audience stop and think about what has just been said, or to emphasize a central idea. Irony to create a discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens, as in these examples."In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” there is much irony. The first irony detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of …show more content…
A story or play without irony is like a pancake with butter or syrup it not worth eating same going for stories or plays they are not worth reading with some irony (Chopin, 1894). There is a part where the irony is a little more stitutional, when she finds out that her husband is not dead and she dies from heart failure, it is also alluding back to the begin when Kate Chopin saids “Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble…” (Chopin, 1894). There is dramatic irony in the fact that Mrs. Mallard doesn’t let Josephine be upstair because she want to be alone after finding out that, we know this but Josephine doesn’t. (Chopin, 1894). The example of situational irony in this story is how she believes her husband has died although he actually has not. She has all these ideas of freedom and liberation of her wifely status. Her husband is dead. Although he had been a kind man, who had loved her, she sees his death as a gift. "And yet she had loved him “ sometimes. Often …show more content…
When Kate Chopin use the word “horrible” it put a sense of fear and apprehension in mind what is going to happen next, the reader want to keep reading in order to figure what happens next, it a hook. The language author use really helps shape the tone. The point of view of the literate piece is written in is all very vital in shaping the tone. First person point of view give the literate piece a personal touch because maybe the person telling the story actually experience the event or situation. The author is use death as a season according to Joseph Rosenblum (cite article). It does really come through that same way for some reader it, just a death and not related to the seasons and for other it could have a deeper meaning for some other people. The atmosphere is a cheerful and hopeful. She is not the grieving woman a reader would picture her to be. She is hopeful and planning for the future. With her out pour of happiness, the reader is able to begin feeling hopeful for Louise's
Authors can use irony to make their audience stop and think about what has just been said, or to emphasize a central idea. Irony to create a discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens, as in these examples."In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour,” there is much irony. The first irony detected is in the way that Louise reacts to the news of …show more content…
A story or play without irony is like a pancake with butter or syrup it not worth eating same going for stories or plays they are not worth reading with some irony (Chopin, 1894). There is a part where the irony is a little more stitutional, when she finds out that her husband is not dead and she dies from heart failure, it is also alluding back to the begin when Kate Chopin saids “Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble…” (Chopin, 1894). There is dramatic irony in the fact that Mrs. Mallard doesn’t let Josephine be upstair because she want to be alone after finding out that, we know this but Josephine doesn’t. (Chopin, 1894). The example of situational irony in this story is how she believes her husband has died although he actually has not. She has all these ideas of freedom and liberation of her wifely status. Her husband is dead. Although he had been a kind man, who had loved her, she sees his death as a gift. "And yet she had loved him “ sometimes. Often …show more content…
When Kate Chopin use the word “horrible” it put a sense of fear and apprehension in mind what is going to happen next, the reader want to keep reading in order to figure what happens next, it a hook. The language author use really helps shape the tone. The point of view of the literate piece is written in is all very vital in shaping the tone. First person point of view give the literate piece a personal touch because maybe the person telling the story actually experience the event or situation. The author is use death as a season according to Joseph Rosenblum (cite article). It does really come through that same way for some reader it, just a death and not related to the seasons and for other it could have a deeper meaning for some other people. The atmosphere is a cheerful and hopeful. She is not the grieving woman a reader would picture her to be. She is hopeful and planning for the future. With her out pour of happiness, the reader is able to begin feeling hopeful for Louise's