In 216 B.C. Rome went to war against Hannibal and suffered one of the greatest defeats in their history; a battle called Cannae. At Cannae the massive Roman army was surrounded by Hannibal's troops, and during the fighting almost all the Roman soldiers were killed. The news reached Rome, and mothers of soldiers were told that their sons had been killed at Cannae. The stories have it that when the few surviving soldiers came home the mothers were so surprised to see them after thinking they were dead, that many of the mothers died out of shock.
In her book "The Story Of An Hour" Kate Chopin gives us a similar story, in which a husband thought to be dead comes home and his shocked wife looses her life. This essay is to show from Kate Chopin's story the emotional and psychological shift that the wife, and protagonist, makes when she discovers her husband's death, and how those changes rapidly reversed brought about her own death. This essay will cover how Kate Chopin details protagonist's shock and self pity; her emotions movement into feelings of freedom and self-sufficiency, then into a victorious denial of authority, and finally a reversal of the sorrow causing fatal disappointment when her husband arrived alive. This essay …show more content…
The author first introduces the aspect of sympathy from the reader by revealing that the protagonist's husband has died. She then creates an interest in the story by saying that, "She [the protagonist] did not hear as many women have heard the same...". (Mays, 476) In every person the desire to be different is as strong as the desire to fit in, and the author uses this simple statement to excite that very universal interest in her readers. As the reader reads this sentence he or she almost subconsciously begins to compare them self to this character who did things differently. The reader is now
In her book "The Story Of An Hour" Kate Chopin gives us a similar story, in which a husband thought to be dead comes home and his shocked wife looses her life. This essay is to show from Kate Chopin's story the emotional and psychological shift that the wife, and protagonist, makes when she discovers her husband's death, and how those changes rapidly reversed brought about her own death. This essay will cover how Kate Chopin details protagonist's shock and self pity; her emotions movement into feelings of freedom and self-sufficiency, then into a victorious denial of authority, and finally a reversal of the sorrow causing fatal disappointment when her husband arrived alive. This essay …show more content…
The author first introduces the aspect of sympathy from the reader by revealing that the protagonist's husband has died. She then creates an interest in the story by saying that, "She [the protagonist] did not hear as many women have heard the same...". (Mays, 476) In every person the desire to be different is as strong as the desire to fit in, and the author uses this simple statement to excite that very universal interest in her readers. As the reader reads this sentence he or she almost subconsciously begins to compare them self to this character who did things differently. The reader is now