Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis

Naturalism is a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Naturalism took place from 1890-1915. Some characteristics of Naturalism include: Survival of the fittest, violence (force vs. force), animal imagery, determinism, and taboo topics. Also, Naturalism is aimed at the lower class and is about the darker side of life. Ethan Frome is a novel written by Edith Wharton in 1911.

The poetic elements and rhyme helps contribute to the humor of the story. The figurative language what the story helps us picture what the story is trying to show us. For example “And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.” The imagery in that sentence helps us see what the story is describing.

Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. (Chopin III)” Chopin uses the super detailed description of Edna crying to appeal to the audience and demonstrate how Edna’s current situation is exceedingly unpleasant. In both situations the authors use pathos to appeal to the audience and show the characters in dark and unpleasant situations to display how horrendous their situations

Unsurprisingly, this article discusses the emotions in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.” S.S. Jamil shows the irony in stereotyping women as overemotional, when the conventional roles Louise Mallard lives in force her to suppress her emotions. Jamil suggests that this is the cause of Louise’s heart trouble, since psychological health does affect physical health. The self-assertion that Louise discovers is permission to be herself, since emotions are a substantial part of who we are. The narrative of this article paints Louise as the victim and society as the culprit.

Chopin makes her strong statement in this quote from the story. Mrs. Mallard has no one to answer to but herself, and she feels liberated that her husband can no longer control her. During the late nineteenth century, women quite frequently had to suppress themselves to the will of their husbands, or to some other man who had a significant amount of control over their lives. Chopin successfully uses vivid imagery, point of view, and irony that gives a different view of marriage that is not typical of today.

Naturalism was a philosophical belief that human character was shaping by a natural environment, which stating any superstition did not exist, such as gods, spirits. Naturalism literary movement began in late nineteenth century in art, film, and literature. It was about showing human character for surviving in a naturalistic environment. One of the naturalism literatures was The storm. It was a short story and written by Kate Chopin.

Remarkable masterpieces of literature are created when oppressed individuals decide to unleash their prolonged vexation through the ink of a pen. During the Latin American boom, these tyrannized people joined hands to voice out their bottled up emotions through writing. It seems as though the authors of the two novellas, Hour of the Star and Chronicle of Death Foretold, are rebelling against the injustice by presenting some naked bitter truths about the Latin American societies. The plot of Chronicle of a Death Foretold deals with a murder, or rather an ‘honour killing’ that took place in a small village in Colombia. According to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s autobiography, the novella was inspired by the murder of his friend Cayetano Gentile, who is Santiago Nasar in the story.

The story I chose to explain the use of symbols in is, The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin. It is a very short story but gave a lot of details that helped the short story worthwhile. The story starts off with an older woman named Louise who suffers from heart trouble; this heart trouble can be seen as a beginning symbol in the story. There is no in depth detail as to what kind of heart trouble the woman suffers from so the story explores many options, the biggest being how her heart will react to her husbands possible death. The story examines the reality of her new found freedom that her heart will feel if her husband was dead.

This was bitter irony since everyone thought Louise died from being excited to see her husband when she really died from not wanting to see him. “She thought of Leonce and the children. They were part of her life. But they need not have thought that they could possess her, body and soul. ”(Chopin 137).

‘Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door—you will make yourself ill.’ said Louis”(Chopin). It is ironic that Josephine is so worried about Mrs. Mallard when in reality she is in her room dreaming of how her new life will be. The short story is rather entertaining because you have to think past what the author writes, and create for yourself your own depiction of what the meaning is.

The author takes the reader through a series of grieving by the wife who has been left by her husband. Unexpectedly, the grieving widow is celebrating the news of her husband’s demise as it sets her free (Chopin, 2017). At the beginning of the story, the two people who want to convey the news of the husband’s death are at pain to break the news fearing that the wife may collapse due to heart problems. However, the wife seems happy with her husband’s death and even starts to imagine how sweet life would be without the husband. The author catches the reader’s imagination through Mrs. Mallard by explaining how she will get her life back after the death of the husband in a humorous manner.

“The Story Of An Hour” uses Literary Devices. Literary Devices are specific language techniques which writers use to create text that is dear, interesting, and memorably. The literary devices in “The Story Of An Hour” are Irony, Symbolism, Imagery, and Allegory. Irony means the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically, for humorous or emphatic effect. Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Now she is no longer pitiful and heartbroken but joyful and excited for a life free of her husband’s dominant presence. The story says for the first time in her life, Mrs. Mallard prays for a long life. Gary Mayer describes Mrs. Mallard’s new situation by writing: "Louise's joy, it may be argued, is her thought of being single, not the realization that her husband is alive"(Mayer 95). When this change occurs, Chopin expresses Louise Mallard’s new found freedom by finally using her first name rather than her surname as she writes, “Louise, open the door!”(Chopin 237). This signifies the rebirth of a woman formally suppressed by the name of her husband; she is no longer defined by someone else, but she defines herself and her

Those sentiments show that her husband was not a cruel man but a kind one. With that information, it is still noted that “she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not” (Chopin) which could mean her marriage was of convenience and not a choice. Even though this relationship may have been amicable Louise still struggles with this new emotion, that of

We think that the form of the “Imaginary” mentioned in Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory of Mrs. Mallards family and friends “imagining” that the devastated new of Mr. Mallard’s death would cause her a heart attack, however later on in the story it was mentioned that she was in fact relieved to know she was a free woman of her marriage. Consequently, the reality of Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts, perceptions and feelings were not the same as others may have assumed or imagined to be. Based on stereotypical standards of society this was misunderstood because a wife should feel an enormous pain for the death of her husband. As the story continues, when Josephine whose Mrs. Mallard’s sister told her about the death of Mr. Mallard, instead of reacting in shock as “many women would’ve (Chopin, The Story of an Hour)” done so, Mrs. Mallard “wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.