Essay Comparing The Awakening and Story of an Hour -- comparison compa

Comparing The Awakening and Story of an Hour The heroine, Mrs. P, has more or less carries some characteristics par tot all(prenominal)yel to Louise Mallard in Hour. The women of her time are limited by cultural convention. Yet, Mrs. P, (like Louise) begins to experience a new liberty of imagination, a savor for life , in the immediate absence of her husband. She realizes, through interior monologues, that she has been held back, that her institutionalise in life cannot and give not afford her the kind of freedom to explore freely and openly the emotions that are as much a part of her as they are not a part of Leonce. present is a primary irony. Also, the rhetoric Chopin uses is full of contradictions from the beginning. not only that, scarcely there are so many contradictions of manner, style, Point of view, and all of these both internal and external of each of the characters. For example, Leonce Pontellier wore eye-glasses. He was a man of forty, of median(a) height and rather slender build he stooped a little. His hair was brown and straight, parted on one side. His beard was neatly and closely trimmed, whereas his sons are described sturdy little fellows of four and five. This suggests that he is rather delicate, and that his wife, after whom they presumably take (ils tiennent de leur mere) is sturdy and strong, and can and will take him at something. Another significant one comes in chapter xxix where her interior monologue talks of her understanding as...that monster made up of beauty and brutality. Looking at the end of the work and going backward (I read it this way so I could retrace the steps that legislate up to Ednas suicide, I saw this first time an ambiguity between the seeming freedom she got from transcending the bonds of ... ... Another aspects of the story is that once Ednas awakening begins to take place, she is on a roller coaster of emotions, from the manic exuberance of listening to music and the sounds of the water, he r connection to robert--its as though all her senses are opened up. Between times, however, she is really depressed, as though all the color that Chopin imparts so beautifully in the descriptions of the other scenes, has become windy and uninteresting. Then, she is flung into an emotional upheaval when she reads Roberts letter to Mlle Reisz, as the latter plays Wagner. Clearly, these kinds of emotions cannot be borne by a woman whose cultural structure does not give up the building of her own that it might sustain the weight and number. She is overwhelmed. She must escape, and she does, for her federal agency now is powerfully reminiscent of the joy that kills in Hour.