Women during the Victorian era lived in the private sphere of the world. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard has a strong desire for freedom that she nearly receives, but ironically portrays into a tragedy disguised as a blessing. The desire for freedom has appeared throughout women within the late nineteenth century, which Kate Chopin experienced from a young age and becomes the voice for gender equality.
To marry, run a household, raise children and be a perfect companion to the husband, are only some of the many roles a woman in the late nineteenth century had to fulfill. Marriage has different perspectives within the variety of regions. For example, Tiffany K. Wayne writes, “ Southern White women tended to marry earlier …show more content…
An inspiration for literature was her father, as Per Seyersted exclaims, “Kate Chopin’s earliest recollections, her son Felix tells us, centered around her father, who was agreeable …every morning” (15). Chopin’s relationship with her father Thomas O’ Flaherty was intimate, but short due to her father being killed in a train tragedy when she was only five years old (Seyersted 16). There is a similarity between her true-life experience of her father’s death in a train accident and the fictional written piece by Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” train tragedy. Character names of the people in her story were real life inspirations and carefully tweaked and disguised to be acceptable to society and prevent major chaos (Toth 10). The tragedies in her life, which were several family deaths, resulted in her capturing different interests that lead her into being the voice for feminism. Seyersted mentions, “These new losses were crushing to the twelve-year-old girl”(21). Losing her loved ones at a very young age caused her to stay to
To marry, run a household, raise children and be a perfect companion to the husband, are only some of the many roles a woman in the late nineteenth century had to fulfill. Marriage has different perspectives within the variety of regions. For example, Tiffany K. Wayne writes, “ Southern White women tended to marry earlier …show more content…
An inspiration for literature was her father, as Per Seyersted exclaims, “Kate Chopin’s earliest recollections, her son Felix tells us, centered around her father, who was agreeable …every morning” (15). Chopin’s relationship with her father Thomas O’ Flaherty was intimate, but short due to her father being killed in a train tragedy when she was only five years old (Seyersted 16). There is a similarity between her true-life experience of her father’s death in a train accident and the fictional written piece by Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” train tragedy. Character names of the people in her story were real life inspirations and carefully tweaked and disguised to be acceptable to society and prevent major chaos (Toth 10). The tragedies in her life, which were several family deaths, resulted in her capturing different interests that lead her into being the voice for feminism. Seyersted mentions, “These new losses were crushing to the twelve-year-old girl”(21). Losing her loved ones at a very young age caused her to stay to