kate chopin's "story of an hour"
ASSIGNMENT
Question: Discuss the role of sexual politics in Louise mallard’s possession of self assertion.
Answer: Kate Chopin is a very famous American writer of the nineteenth century. She was an independent woman who did not confine to the socio-political bonds of the society. Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” published in 1894 is about a woman who receives the news of the death of her husband and the sense of freedom that she experiences after his death.
The protagonist of the story “The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard is suffering from heart trouble when she gets to know that her husband has died in a rail accident. She experiences turmoil of emotions as she becomes familiar with the idea that there will not be anyone who will control her life from now. Her feelings changes from the “storm of grief” to the “monstrous joy” that she feels as she realizes she is an independent woman from now on, and she herself would be responsible for her life and the only person she would live for now would be only herself and no one else.
Lawrence I. Berkove in his essay, “Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”” says that Louise is an immature, egoistic and a victim of her own self assertion. He says that the reason why Louise experiences the joy is because she would finally be able to live for herself and have her independent identity. Since she was not suffering from a bad married life, so according to him, there is no gender politics involved in the self assertion of Louise’s identity. He says that the story is not about marriage or society but only about Louise Mallard and her identity crisis.
The argument that Berkove gives in his essay is a little incomplete, saying that Louise was suffering only from an identity crisis would be wrong to say since the whole idea that she needs self assertion tells us that she was going through self effacement in her
Question: Discuss the role of sexual politics in Louise mallard’s possession of self assertion.
Answer: Kate Chopin is a very famous American writer of the nineteenth century. She was an independent woman who did not confine to the socio-political bonds of the society. Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” published in 1894 is about a woman who receives the news of the death of her husband and the sense of freedom that she experiences after his death.
The protagonist of the story “The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard is suffering from heart trouble when she gets to know that her husband has died in a rail accident. She experiences turmoil of emotions as she becomes familiar with the idea that there will not be anyone who will control her life from now. Her feelings changes from the “storm of grief” to the “monstrous joy” that she feels as she realizes she is an independent woman from now on, and she herself would be responsible for her life and the only person she would live for now would be only herself and no one else.
Lawrence I. Berkove in his essay, “Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”” says that Louise is an immature, egoistic and a victim of her own self assertion. He says that the reason why Louise experiences the joy is because she would finally be able to live for herself and have her independent identity. Since she was not suffering from a bad married life, so according to him, there is no gender politics involved in the self assertion of Louise’s identity. He says that the story is not about marriage or society but only about Louise Mallard and her identity crisis.
The argument that Berkove gives in his essay is a little incomplete, saying that Louise was suffering only from an identity crisis would be wrong to say since the whole idea that she needs self assertion tells us that she was going through self effacement in her