Marriage is supposed to be beautiful and coping with each other. Where love is the main reason to still be together. The spouses can’t imagine life without each other. But what if it all turns upside down, death. The death of someone will impact the other and might fall into depression and sadness. In this case, it wasn’t so. The story, “The Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin published in 1894 was an excellent story that left us in awe and didn’t expect the ending (Chopin, 1894). This story was full of surprises. Louise Mallard was married to Mr. Brently Mallard who apparently was dead, wasn’t. The story of an hour has a twist in the end.
“The story of an hour” is about Mr. and Mrs. Mallard. Mrs. Mallard suffers from heart trouble and Mr. Mallard procures on caring for her - too much. She was loved and taken care of by her husband when news hit her that her husband is dead from an accident that occurred. Mrs. Mallard was at her home when her sister Josephine told her the deaths new with fear knowing that Louise suffers from a heart. Louise felt in awe but to her surprise, she felt free and relieved. Mrs. Mallard was already feeling and imagining her freedom when she had a shock and collapsed – her husband is still alive.
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In the short story 'The Story of an Hour,' different literary devices are depicted. The one that is mostly illustrated is irony. There are three ironies read Verbal, Situational, and Dramatic irony. Verbal irony in this story is that at the beginning of the story, Mrs. Mallard is said to have 'heart trouble' (Ln. 1) not a heart condition, but the soul, as Mrs. Mallard suffers from repression. Secondly, a situational incongruity was when Mrs. Mallard was told the news of her spouse's passing. It appears that she is so discouraged and despondency stricken that she wishes to be separated from everyone else, except to the pursuer's shock, Louise wishes to be distant from everyone else (Ln. 10) not to lament to herself but rather to fathom her opportunity as a Victorian wife. Thirdly, dramatic irony is when Mrs. Mallard won't permit Josephine to help her upstairs (Ln. 10), it appears that she is so melancholy stricken that she wishes to be separated from everyone else. To watchers shock, rather than lamenting as Josephine considers, Louise celebrates for her new opportunity. This sensational incongruity is in light of the fact that the pursuers realize Mrs. Mallard's actual sentiments, however, Josephine and Richard don't.
The theme of this story is illegal joy. At the point when Brently Mallard dies, Mrs. Mallard goes to the cheerful acknowledgment that she is currently a free individual. Despite the fact that her contemplations are private, she endeavored to conceal the delight she feels and endeavors to beat it back with her will. Her opposition towards her actual feelings uncovers how prohibited her pleasure is. Whatever is left of society will never acknowledge or comprehend Louise and her Independence. This is the reason the delight of autonomy is taboo for her. Since this satisfaction is detracted from her, she departs this life as a curb and limited lady because of her significant other and society.
As pursuers, we felt partitioned with respect to whether we enjoyed or disdained “The Story of an Hour. We loathed it by one way or another in light of the fact that we as pursuers felt befuddled while perusing. This is on the grounds that Mrs. Mallard’s sentiments changed exceptionally unexpectedly all through the story. For instance, when she was given the news of her spouse’s demise, she was crushed and loaded with melancholy. Be that as it may, when she was disregarded, she all of a sudden wound up cheerful and felt free (Ln. 31). This befuddled us since we were never certain concerning how she felt and this made it hard to remain dazzled and to comprehend the story. In the midst of this, we had a few likes in the story. We preferred how this story could take such intricacy, for example, ladies perfectly fine disentangle in a couple of sentences. We likewise like how this influences us to acknowledge the opportunity we were honored to have been given.
The occasion that begins the story off with Mr. Mallard's passing is totally fixed in the end. In the interim, Mrs. Mallard's life, which her loved ones made a decent attempt to ensure toward the start, is lost toward the end. In this way, the story closes with an occasion the characters endeavored to evade toward the start. That is unexpected. Pursuers can remove one thing for sure from this: Mrs. Mallard has died. The specialists’ referenced state it was a result of the 'joy that kills' (Ln. 64). Mrs. Mallard felt after understanding her better half hadn't died in the accident as mentioned in the beginning.
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