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VII CONCLUSION/LESSON LEARNED One lesson that everybody can and should learn from Kate Chopin’s .The Story of an Hour” Is that marriage is a very complicated relationship .Many young couples start of thinking that they will stay in love forever. But it seldom, if ever, works out that way. In fact, there is nothing in life that is perfect. Everything changes. Mrs. Mallard evidently loves her husband, but marriage has required her to put up with a lot of things she hardly even knew she resented. When she hears the news that her husband Brently had been killed in a railroad accident she is overcome with grief. She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her. But after she has finished weeping and is alone in the privacy of her room, she begins to realize that her husband,s apparent death is not without its compensations. Mainly, his death has given her new freedom and a new lease on life. She no longer has to play the single. Stultifying role of a housewife. A submissive possession of a dominant male. Now her bossom rose and felt tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will-as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whisphered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under the beneath: “free, free, free!”. The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They styayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body. Although Kate Chopin does not say it in so many words. Mrs. Mallard is realizing that she no longer has to be a sex object. This was not something authors wrote about in Chopin’s day. Girls were brought up to be completely Ignorant about matters of sex. They were taught that they should not and did not, have sexual desires of their own. That was something limited to men, and something that women had to put up with once thay were married- but not something they were

supposed to enjoy.As a result, many women were frigid and found sexual intercourse with their own husband an unpleasant experience which reccured only too often.Mrs. Mallard’s sensation of freedom and joy probably have a lot to do with her realization that she no longer has to be available to satisfy her husband’s physical needs-although this verboten subject is hardly eve hinted at in Chopin’s story. Of course, Mrs. Mallard receives a fatal shock when she is informed her husband is not dead after all. The shock may come from an overwhelming combination of relief and disappointment. Her husband is alive. She does not have to grieve from him. But she has to go back into that same role from which she thought she had been freed by his death. Marriage is a complex and ambivalent relationship. It is certainly not a relationship to be entered into lightly-although many people think they are in “love” and will be in love forever.

II INTRODUCTION OF THE STORY >Kate Chopin’s short piece “THE STORY OF AN HOUR” is about a sickly wife who briefly believes her husband is dead and imagines a whole new life of freedom for herself. And then…well were not going to spoil the ending for you here. >Chopin’s stories have been read more and more over the years-and this piece is no exception-although her most famous work. The awakening remains the standard against which her other works are measured yet, contemporary audiences would have read.” THE STORY OF AN HOUR” published in vogue magazine in 1894 (source) a full five years before they would’ve gotten their hands on The Awakening. >Looking back, its pretty interesting to think about Chopin’s work appearing in vogue. Here’s what it said about Chopin. >”MRS. KATE CHOPIN- A beautiful woman, whose portrait fails to convey tithe of the charm of her expressively lovely face, has been an honored contributor to vogue almost from its first number….Mrs. Chopin is daring in her choice of themes, but exquisitely refined in the treatment of them, and her literary style is a model of terse and finished diction.”(source) >Can you imagine Chopin’s story being published in vogue magazine today? The vogue Shmoop’s familiar which has stuff like andre leon talle’y is nominations about current Paris fashions, or articles about what Gwyneth Paltrow likes to cook no offense to vogue, we don’t think its publishing the great short stories of our own time anymore. Yet in 1894, it actually was. Which we think is kind of cool.

VI THEME:(THE STORY OF AN HOUR THEME OF FREEDOM AND CONFINEMENT) At first, freedom seems like a terrible thing to Mrs. Mallard, who’s restricted in lots of ways: through her marriage, by her bad heart, even inside her home which she doesn’t leave during.”THE STORY OF AN HOUR” On the other hand, though. She has considerable freedoms as an upper-class, married lady. She can tell freedoms coming for her, and she dreads it. Once it arrives, though. It fills her with an overpowering joy. Yet she experiences this mental and emotional freedom while being confined to a room. A soon as she leaves that room, the freedom she only just barely begun to understand is taken away from her.

SYMBOLS: In addition to the symbols of hope that she springtime present. The blue sky ,singing birds, and” delicious breath of rain”- there are three symbols within Mrs. Mallard’s house that are significant. The door to Mrs. Mallard’s Bedroom, the open window, and the front door of her house each represent a part of what happens to Mrs. Mallard during this eventiful “story of an hour”. First, the door to Mrs. Mallard’s room represents her mind and soul’s inner sanctum. She retreats to her room and closes her door, staying these so long that her sister bows outside, looks through the keyhole, and begs her to open the door. The door represents her private thought life, her ability to consider her own needs for once, separate from the needs of anyone else, even those who loves her. This is where she able to indulge her true feelings without concern for what others will think of her.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE(FIGURES OF SPEECH) PARADOX(paragraph 2)-Revealed in half-concealing. METAPHOR(paragraph 3)-Storm of grief. METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION(paragraph 4)Physical exhaustion that haunted her body.

ALLITERATION(paragraph 9)-The sonds, the scents. OXYMORON(paragraph 12)-Montrous joy. SIMILE(paragraph 20)-She carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory.

Andres Bonifacio National High School Llanera Nueva Ecija In Partial Fullfillment of the Requirements “THE STORY OF AN HOUR” KATE CHOPIN

SUBMITTED TO:

MR.

JAYSON M. DECULIN ENGLISH TEACHER

SUBMITTED BY: KYLA MAE L. LAZAGA CRISTINE JOY SABATE