The Storm Essay 3
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Subin Kim
Professor Royston
English 1302
December 10, 2014
The Storm
The Storm takes place in 1800s, where nobility, moral, and formal courtesy was alleged back in that time; the idea of having affairs other men other than your husband was considered inconceivable. The character Calixta in the storm is viewed as a general house wife back in the days, doing house work and chores for her devoted family. However, we can all indicate that
Calixta is not happy while doing the housework “She felt very warm and often stopped to mop her face on which the perspiration gathered in beads.”. The audience can automatically perceive that Calixta is missing something that fulfills her satisfaction as a woman. In the story, Calixta describes that it’s been two years since it rained outside of the environment “My! what a rain!
It’s been good two years sence it rain’ like that,”. When the storm approached, the scene is set out to bring Alce and Calixta together; then when storm leaves, Alce leaves. During the storm,
Alce and Calixta experiences sexual desire and pleasure, that they hid for a very long time. I believe that Calixta’s desires portrays one of the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self realization, esteem, social, safety, and physiological needs; and above all, it was the sexual needs of esteem that Calixta had towards Alce. Therefore, for Calixta, life meant more than being a housewife, and just doing the housework all day at home. Calixta had more desires and more needs as a
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women; but somehow the desires that she kept inside, erupted in moment when she was with
Alce during the storm. The conclusions derived from the background where the affairs takes place, the action which
Calixta took by accident, controls her life as a whole. When Alce come over to her house again,
Calixta does not rejoice or welcome him, but constantly worries about her husband and her child,
“Oh, Bobint! You back! My! But I was uneasy. W'ere you
Subin Kim
Professor Royston
English 1302
December 10, 2014
The Storm
The Storm takes place in 1800s, where nobility, moral, and formal courtesy was alleged back in that time; the idea of having affairs other men other than your husband was considered inconceivable. The character Calixta in the storm is viewed as a general house wife back in the days, doing house work and chores for her devoted family. However, we can all indicate that
Calixta is not happy while doing the housework “She felt very warm and often stopped to mop her face on which the perspiration gathered in beads.”. The audience can automatically perceive that Calixta is missing something that fulfills her satisfaction as a woman. In the story, Calixta describes that it’s been two years since it rained outside of the environment “My! what a rain!
It’s been good two years sence it rain’ like that,”. When the storm approached, the scene is set out to bring Alce and Calixta together; then when storm leaves, Alce leaves. During the storm,
Alce and Calixta experiences sexual desire and pleasure, that they hid for a very long time. I believe that Calixta’s desires portrays one of the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self realization, esteem, social, safety, and physiological needs; and above all, it was the sexual needs of esteem that Calixta had towards Alce. Therefore, for Calixta, life meant more than being a housewife, and just doing the housework all day at home. Calixta had more desires and more needs as a
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women; but somehow the desires that she kept inside, erupted in moment when she was with
Alce during the storm. The conclusions derived from the background where the affairs takes place, the action which
Calixta took by accident, controls her life as a whole. When Alce come over to her house again,
Calixta does not rejoice or welcome him, but constantly worries about her husband and her child,
“Oh, Bobint! You back! My! But I was uneasy. W'ere you