Although Louis became a devoted husband and he admired Marie's character, in her early years in France his apathy made Maria Antoinette feel isolated. As recorded in Campan’s diary, even though Maria Antoinette sought out Louis XVI, their marriage went unconsummated for seven years and during this time, the teenage queen endured in silence when she was item of gossip for her incapacity to procreate. Bored by the court rumours and her marriage, Marie Antoinette wanted to escape from Versailles. “As her power as queen
Both marriages are restricting, and challenge the protagonists’ concept of self and individuality. In “The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard gets the news of her husband’s death from her sister and her husband’s friend. She quickly retreats to the privacy of her own room which her companions believe is to grieve in solitude. In actuality, she shows the reader that she is finally confronting the wasted days of her life, and through that realizes that she has been given a second chance. She reflects on her marriage and we find that, although it was a good one, her husband never knew how unhappy his wife was.
Mrs. Mallard was married in a time when divorce was never an option. In 1894, women were married off at a young age and had no say so in the matter. When news rang out that there was an accident and that a man in whom they thought was her husband was killed, Mrs. Mallard had a very abnormal reaction. Where most women would be overcome with grief at the news of her husband dying, Mrs. Mallard was surprisingly content and borderline happy to hear the news of what she thought was her husband’s death. “When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted Bell 2 lips.
The Irony used in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin the real meaning of this story can be quiet confusing. Chopin created this story after her own husband’s death. In a way one might think that she may be relating her own experiences in this short story. In this short story Chopin has the reader thinking as if Mrs. Mallard was supposedly having heart troubles and that that was the cause of her death. Chopin also has readers believing that Louise is mournful of her husband’s death but it’s definitely the opposite.
In order to achieve self-fulfillment their lives ended in tragedy. In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," a young woman's innermost thoughts about her life and marriage and her perception of the world are expressed through Louise, who reacts in a strange way after receiving news that her husband has been killed in a train wreck. "She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance" and instead of breaking down emotionally she explores the possibilities of what a new life would bring. She realizes that her husband is no longer there to control her or tell her what to do. "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself".
From these things, I think that the woman's disease results from a psychological cause. Maybe, I think that the chief cause is her husband because she feels joy when she was heard that he was dead. Chopin also uses setting to contrast the news of her husband's death or her longing for freedom. In the text, "the open window and the open square(1,3)" repeat again and again throughout the story. In addition, "the tops of trees, the new spring life, the delicious breath of rain, the notes of distant song and countless sparrows" don't get along with the woman's present situation.
However, love in the two stories did not result to happiness for the unknown woman in “A Sorrowful Woman” as in “From A Secret Sorrow” Faye ends up in a happy marriage and a great family. In "A Secret Sorrow" Faye feels that the only for her to achieve fulfillment and true happiness is to get married and have children unfortunately, her fate dictates otherwise. This resulted to a critical point in her relationship with her fiancé. Faye was expecting that her man would leave her once he knew of her disability. On the other hand the lady in "A Sorrowful Woman” has a husband and child but finds she sick and tired of what she had.
From the beginning of the story we learn that Louise has some sort of a serious heart condition. Her troubled heart is mentioned because that was the reason behind why “great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 66). Louise’s husband, Brently, died in a railroad disaster, and of course any person even without a heart problem would have been extremely saddened by the news of a dearly loved one’s death. Her sister Josephine knew about her condition and did all she can do to let her sister know as lightly and smoothly about her husband’s death. But no one knew or even suspected that Louise’s heart condition had a much deeper reason behind it, fueling it from the day she became Mrs. Mallard.
She is a middle aged woman with heart trouble, and bad news was about to come her way of the “possible death of her husband” (Chopin, 1894, para.1). Mrs. Mallard was a lady who was possibly controlled in her life by her husband. “When hearing the news of the death, she wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in Josephine’s arms” (Chopin, 1894, para.3). I can feel the attachment that she had with her husband, but wept once also shows maybe some antipathy. Mrs. Mallard made her way to her room and stared out her window to watch her new life take fold.
When we admit defeat to these tests we are essentially giving up reason to live, to be happy, to love, and to dream. While failure is miserable and sad, like the news Louise receives, we should not dwell on it but instead build and thrive from it. When Louise’s story turns away from sadness at her husband’s death a light begins to shine in her. She starts feeling free (Chopin, Paragraph 11, 1894). She gets an overwhelming elation to the thought of getting to do what she wants without her husband dictating (Chopin, Paragraph 14, 1894).