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The Storm By Kate Chopin

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Both "The Storm" by Kate Chopin and "I, being born a woman and distressed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay challenges conventional, social and sexual mores related to women's sexuality in different ways. How women are perceived in a sexual way and how different women view such subjects. In "The Storm," Chopin presents Calixta as a sexually liberated woman who is able to enjoy her sexual desires and experiences despite being bound by the conventions of marriage and social norms. She defies the traditional expectation of women's sexuality being reserved solely for their husbands, and she finds fulfillment in a relationship outside of marriage. Despite her being married and living in a conservative society, she engages in a passionate affair with Alcée, an old flame and friend, during a sudden storm. Chopin challenges traditional expectations that women should be chaste and sexually reserved by showing Calixta's satisfaction and …show more content…

"The Storm" presents a more positive view of women's sexual liberation, while "I, being born a woman and distressed" takes a more critical approach towards the oppression of women's sexual expression. They both show the different views women feel about their sex that us readers can expand on and understand their point of views. Calixta wanted more of an experience but she was married, she wanted to feel that experience again and an affair was what she went with while Miliary explains how much of a problem it is on society views on women and how are to be sexualized when really women should have any kind of boundary when it comes to that topic and be free to be how they feel without men having such a problem with it all. Both are two very different points but show how as a whole society views women at their best and at their worst which really in the end it shouldn't matter what anyone feels but you and your experience, it is your business what you do not anyone

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