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The short story " The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin is a story about a woman named Louise Mallard. Louise is introduced with "afflicted with heart trouble". Saying that, Josephine, has to be really careful telling her sister that Louise's husband had passed away in a tragic train accident. Louise locks herself in her bedroom to cope with the loss of her husband. she continues to say the word "Free" over and over again; knowing that she all the time in the world to herself. When she returns…

In The Awakening, Kate Chopin illustrates the slow awakening of Edna Pontellier, a married woman who seeks her own happiness of individuality and her desires in a Victorian society. As a result, Edna tries to make changes in her life, such as abandoning her responsibilities as a mother and relocating into her own home. However, Edna is soon aware that change is not pleasant. Feeling impossibility and hopelessness, Edna chooses to die as an ultimate escape from the restrictions of the Victorian…

power. It can push against you, holding you under its clear blue weight; it can pull your body close in a suffocating embrace with each deep swell; it can reel back like a serpent, twisting around your toes and licking your heels. The Awakening by Kate Chopin ties the water’s wild and sensuous tendrils to the difficulties of women in the 19th century who attempted to attain the freedom of the ocean without drowning in its loneliness. Chopin depicts the struggle of women who rejected domesticity…

times represent culture and tradition, in where an author comes from like Kate Chopin. A female author that represents women in the old times, where they had no freedom, no voice, and were properties of their husband. In Chopin’s novels, The Story of an Hour, The Storm and The Awakening, all have some similar and differences between each protagonist, plot, setting, symbols and themes within the stories. Kate Chopin was born as Kate O’ Flaherty (1850-1904) and was an American female author. She…

It can be said that everyone, at some point in their life, has wondered if they are alone. They question their ability to stand up for what they believe in and if their weaknesses will cause their downfall. There is a simple and comforting way, however, that the downfall can be avoided. Reading is a relaxing pastime that many people today do not acknowledge. On the other hand, once recognized, reading can bring comfort to an audience and bring a new awareness of morals and strength of self.…

After reading one of the most controversial writings of Kate Chopin, it gives me great admiration towards her risk of choosing the theme. Back in the nineteenth century women were frowned upon for even thinking promiscuously, just imagine writing about it. “The Storm” is a fiction novel based on an affair between two past lovers who were brought together by faith and awful weather. The storm approaching in the beginning is a metaphor, representing the desire and powerful attraction between the…

“Jane, be still; don’t struggle so, like a wild frantic bird that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. I am no bird; and no net ensures me: I am a free human being with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you” (Bronte 216). In the selected passage, from the analysis taken it appears that Jane is expressing how she is finally free as she always dreamed. This was around the time where Mr. Rochester did not want Jane to leave him after figuring out he was a married man. He…

Introduction One of the salient features of the film, The Avengers, is the clever dialogue exchanges between the characters. As far as movie scripts are concerned, The Avengers is, perhaps, one of those that have the wittiest lines. Despite the fact that the plots are quite predictable, the movie with its clean graphics and witty dialogue exchanges is purely entertaining. Created by Marvel Studios in 2012, The Avengers materialized Marvel’s plan to join some of their marketable comic book…

Mary Cassatt was an astute, versatile and acumen American printmaker and painter as implied by Broude (2000) and Saini (2013). She is widely acknowledged as a prolific and leading artist of the Impression movement together with Berthe Morisot and Marie Bracquemond. Cassatt is admired and distinguished as the greatest female painter and printmaker of her time. As an artist, Cassatt delved into paintings that depicted women involved in day-to-day activities and having intimacy with their children.…

Throughout Kate Chopin's The Awakening the main character, Edna, is shown to have a mental state that can be described as erratic and unpredictable. She never knows what she quite wants on a surface level but that she eternally wants liberating freedom. Edna can only achieves her freedom, her ‘awakening’ through death, but she does so consciously. She knows what she really wanted in the end and how she was going to get it. Edna's ‘awakening’ started in the Grand Isles, when she started…