When Louise is alone, she starts realizing that with her husband's death, she now has her independence. This realization excites her and even makes her think of life without him. Since it is forbidden to get joy out of somebody's death, she tries to suppress the joy. This shows that this freedom is forbidden. Finally she accepts the joy, feels overwhelmed by it and feels she has to let herself free to the feeling.
From that point the ordinary life that Alicia is accustomed to is suddenly taken away. Her average life as an average Jewess becomes a desperate struggle to survive. One by one, her loved ones are taken and killed, but her will isn’t. When events such as these pass, one realizes the strength of the bonds that connects a person a loved one. Even with a great burden of physical as well as emotional pain, Alicia pushes on.
Relishing in Robert’s attention, new feelings “awaken” and unleash themselves beginning an intense change in Edna and liberating her. She comes to realize that she has discarded her youthful hopes and dreams and that her current life is unfulfilling. Edna starts to take small steps toward freeing herself. This desire of freedom results in infidelity that fills her void to some extent, at the expense of her marriage and motherhood. Pontellier lived in the late nineteenth century, a time frame in which the society imposed many restrictions on the role of the
She looks back on times when George jilted her and tries to leave it in the past. Granny wants to see George and tell him that she’s forgotten him and has had a rich life, when in reality she can’t get him out of her mind. She wants him to know that she has everything he took from her and has become a stronger woman because of him. As she thinks these thoughts, however, it occurs to her that there’s something she’s still missing. A terrible pain cuts through her.
Situational irony is when the author expects one thing to happen but the opposite occurs. For instance, the reader would have speculated that the news of her husband’s death would have devastated Mrs. Mallard but the exact opposite occurs. Mrs. Mallard is contented and overjoyed by the news because at last she was “Free! Body and soul free!” (Chopin 574-575) While looking out the window she was imagining “…spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own...” (Chopin 574-575) She was eager to live her life without the pressure of a male. The author also relates the theme of the forbidden pleasure of independence in her short story with her use of dramatic irony.
Curley's wife can be seen to represent a few different things. The first being the painful weight of dreams. Curley's wife represents what happens when dreams fail and the burden this weight places on the individual. She is a sad character because she believes that she could have been something more than she actually is. Her hopes to be in "pitchers" are similar to the men on this ranch, who also have their own dreams.
The ambiguous tone that “Case History: Alison” is flooded with is shown through the confused emotion in the poem. Alison is happy about her past life and who she used to be; “a bright girl she was”, but she regrets what has happened and who she has become; “shall never get over what I do not remember.”, These two diverse feelings of reminiscence and regret suggest why there may be two main characters in the poem instead of one and why they contrast so much. It also helps show the confused and uncertain voice and the helplessness of character after the “injury”. However, the clever use of dialect in “Checking out Me History”, shows us that the central character in this poem is very proud of his culture and his roots which along with his dialect have fitted together to become a huge part of his identity and distinguishes him as an individual. It also implies that he is not willing to change in order to conform to society.
It is a painful thing/ to look at your own trouble and know/ that you yourself and no one else has made it” (Ajax, 17.) This conversation is an example of how much his wife forgave Ajax almost immediately after the horrid event. She understands that even though he should get over it and try to move on, he has created a lot of conflict within his own head and is struggling with that. She goes on to say, “ If someone posed the question which would you choose:/ To grieve your friends while feeling joy yourself/ or to be wretched with them, shares alike?” (Ajax, 17.) Tecmessa supports
In her story, “Story of an Hour”, Kate Chopin depicts a woman’s temporary freedom and miserable death in an attempt to expose and criticize the reality in her times. The protagonist is described as if she is a possession of her husband in the beginning of the story which reveals that women could not live their own lives. For instance, the protagonist is referred to as “Mrs. Mallard” until after she undergoes a transformation and comes out of her room. Following husband’s surname after getting married is not questioned and perhaps something that is considered natural and a matter of course.
“It takes some good to make it hurt, it takes some bad for satisfaction. It takes some fears to make you trust, it takes those tears to make it rust, it takes the dust to have it polished.” Jason Mraz’s song “Life is wonderful” perfectly depicts the reality of the rollercoaster of emotions that life is. In order for anything to really be appreciated one must experience what it feels like without it. Life is a cycle of both pleasure and pain, losses and gains, and both hope and despair. The beautiful cycle does not always end up as we had imagined, but one can and should always hope.