Kate DiCamillo

In Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour, we are introduced to Mrs. Louise Mallard, a woman with heart trouble, who processes the news of her husband's death and the freedom that she imagined would come of it. As Louise runs through the motions of understanding that her life is now her own, her feeling of liberation uncovers the theme of female repression and its severity of the time. Chopin executes the story with great emphasis on the discovery of liberation, and how even at the cost of her…

In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Edna Pontellier is a character who conforms outwardly, but inside she is questioning her life. She is a wife and mother who challenges her submissive motherhood. While having these duties she inwardly wonders about what her individual self wants. Edna struggles with the inner and outer wants of her life which contributes majorly to the novel. Chopin uses the tension with this conflict to display her message of feminism and women wanting more for their individual…

Analyze how the protagonist of the two assigned Chopin stories are similar. What are important differences between them. How do these differences affect the behavior of the protagonist. In the stories "The Story of an Hour" and "Desiree 's Baby" the two protagonist are trapped in a world where there is inequality between men and women. During that time men had more authority than women did which is why we see this female struggles. Both protagonist were anxious and struggled for the approval of…

Prompt: one aspect of narrative technique(pt. Of view, description or telling or scenic) in an appropriate passage and discuss how it functions in the context of the rest of the tale. (4-5 pages) Main Idea: Charlies internal conflict A central intelligence perspective allows the reader to view Charlie’s experiences and derive meaning from them. This knowledge highlights Charlie’s fatal flaw in not being able to extract meaning from his experiences. Without being able to comprehend the…

Sullied Flesh is an iconic soliloquy that appears in Act I Scene II of the famous Shakespeare play, Hamlet. Before this point, in a ghost has appeared in the garden and the ghost tends to look like elder Hamlet, Hamlet’s father who had recently been murdered. Then, in scene II, the reader learns that Claudius, elder Hamlet’s brother has married elder Hamlet’s widowed wife. This causes Hamlet to lash out in rage and go into this soliloquy about what he is feeling. Hamlet, a 17 year old boy, is…

Introduction The Story of an Hour is written by Kate Chopin in 1894, the story focuses on the emotional changes in Mrs. Mallard learned that her husband died unexpectedly : she first is in anguish, and then gradually becomes ecstasy.This story is generally regarded as ‘a masterpiece of feminist literature to express the awakening of women’s self-consciousness’(Li ChongyueWang Lihua ,2013, 3(2)). In the patriarchal society, Mallard Mrs. is a typical female representative, she is characterized…

Hamlet is a revenge tragedy play written by Williams Shakespeare. The play is all about revenge; many characters are seeking revenge of other characters with different reason and motives. In every revenge tragedy, there should be a ghost that asks for revenge. The three major themes that most of the characters are involved in are revenge, madness and spying. The three themes are related to each other, while revenge was the reason behind madness and madness was the reason behind spying. To make…

Christiania R. Williams proposes an intriguing argument on the main theme of feminism in “The Awakening”. “Reading Beyond Modern Feminism: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening” was a critique given by Williams debating if the novel was more about promoting individualism rather than the idea of feminism. In the novel, Edna Pontellier portrays an average American wife during a Creole New Orleans society. The story starts off with the main character feeling like a caged bird to her lover Leonce Pontellier…

Finding Liberation “The Story Of An Hour’ written by Kate Chopin, puts a spotlight on the repressed state of women in the nineteen hundreds. The readers are introduced to Mrs. Mallard Chopin’s main character, a woman who’s found liberation in her husband’s death. Recently widowed Mrs. Mallard goes through what seems like a grief that never ends. After the grief settled, she found herself to be a liberated woman. She had felt this liberation so intensely, that she later was diagnosed with “the…

In the novel the awakining by kate chopin the protagonist Edna Pontellier figures out how to consider herself an independent individual and dissidents against social standards by abandoning her spouse Leónce and having an unsanctioned romance. The first half of the novel happens in Grand Isle, an island off the shore of Louisiana. Over the summer it is occupied by the upper-class Creole families from New Orleans who go there to escape from the heat and to unwind by the sea possess it. Amid the…