The changing values and attitudes towards education, the importance of literature, marriage and the position of women in society are explored through the marked differences in textual form. A reader’s interest in the parallels of the importance of education and literature between the past and the present are enhanced by considering the differences in textual form. Using her writing to explore the significance of reading and writing towards a good education, Fay Weldon uses Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to address the craft of writing and the power of language through the use of didacticism and the epistolary form throughout Letters to Alice. The epistolary framework of Weldon’s text attempts to differentiate between literature and the nature of writing itself, stressing that “Fiction, thank God, it not and need not be reality”. By directly addressing the reader, through Aunt Fay’s desire to persuade Alice to read not just any “thrillers and romances” which are “temporary”, the reader is placed in a similar position to Alice, and we are essentially being educated on the importance of literature.
Although Mrs. Mallard loved her husband the overwhelming thought of a life without him brought about emotions that she had buried inside which was a sense of freedom. The theme of this story comes together as Mrs. Mallard descends to her room to be alone. Mrs. Mallard was a sickly women afflicted with heart trouble. Her ailment was known to her family and friends. When the word come down that her husband had been in a train accident and feared dead her family and friends knew to break the news to her as easily as they possibly could.
Because Eliza is jealous of Georgiana, she prevents Georgiana from eloping with the man she loves. And that’s why they hate each other. Both of Misses Reed are selfish, they don't care about their mother's illness or death. While Mrs. Reed is suffering from her deteriorating health, Georgiana feels bored and wishes if her aunt who lives in London invites her to their home, and Eliza is busy in planning for her life after her mother's death. When Mrs. Reed dies Jane says, "Neither of us had dropped a tear."
The story end suddenly and unexpectedly: she descended the stairs and saw her husband safe and sound staying at the doors. The sudden heart attack killed her. This text writes into a narrative composition with descriptive elements. We could subdivide it into four parts: - introduction: when we knew that Mrs. Mallard have some health problems with her heart; - exposition: when her sister Josephine told her about death of Mr. Mallard; - climax: when author told as about the mixed feelings of the main character; - denouement: when she finally dies. "The Story of an Hour" wrote into mix of literary and colloquial styles.
ENGL220 Assignment 1 MINJI KIM Setting in the late nineteenth century, Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour illustrates a woman’s emotional changes after she heard of her husband’s death. Although it is written long before and it is just a short portrayal of an emotional repression of a woman of that time, The Story of an Hour still is a thought-provoking story even for the contemporary readers. Louise, who has heart problem, is carefully told that her husband, Brently, is killed in a railroad accident. She goes upstairs to her room sobbing. Looking outside the open window, she feels the spring air, and suddenly feels the unexpected joy.
Her family is livings life where they cannot control what could happen to them because they don’t have money to fix these problems nor do they have the power to stop them. “The strife has lasted too young and had been too painful for me to call him back to continue it.” (pg. 100) This quote is fulfilled with grief and sorrow because Nathan and Rukmani’s last child, Kuti dies. At this point in the story, death is being caused because they don’t have enough money to support their children or feed them. Markandaya is showing fear by Rukmani not being able to support her children therefore they will die off if nothing is done.
Great care was taken to tell Louise Mallard, who has a heart problem, of her husband’s death, Brently Mallard, during a railroad disaster. It was her sister Josephine, with Brently’s friend, Richards standing there for support, who gave Louise the news of her husband’s death, she immediately started to weep. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, paralyzed inability to accept its significance.” (p. 15) Upon receiving the news, Louise is thrown into a downward spiral of her emotions. “She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”(p. 15) After she was done grieving in her sister arms, Louise went upstairs and locked herself in her room and immediately began mourning the loss of husband. She went over to a comfortable armchair and sank down into it.
Also Richards her husband’s friend; who was one of the first to hear of Brently’s death, took the time to clarify the news and made sure that no one else would convey the gloomy message (Chopin, 2011, para. 2). This showed that Mrs. Mallard was so poor in health that if she got the news in an improper tone or from someone that wasn’t very close to her could have caused her to pass away. This also shows that the other characters thought that Mrs. Mallard was so sick that she couldn’t handle the news and wanted to protect her in a time of sorrow. The narrator’s words give a great portrayal of the relationship between the false news and how Mrs. Mallard’s thoughts formed.
Another example Kate Chopin uses of dramatic irony is throughout the whole short story. The reader knows that Mrs. Mallards is glad about her husband’s death but her sister, Josephine, and her best friend, Richards, don’t. They think Mrs. Mallard is making herself sick when she locked herself in her
Faulkner portrays Emily to be mysterious and a stubborn woman. She is a woman who perhaps refuses to accept the change that is going on in the world. Emily had been constantly reminded, when her father was alive, that no man had ever been good enough for her, only her father. After he dies she is still in such denial that she believes he is still living. Chekhov portrays Iona to be confused, lonely, dazed, and as a man who needs someone to open his heart up to as to which all humans want and need during such a hard time.