Compare and Contrast- Gender Roles and Marriages

Compare and Contrast- Gender Roles and Marriages

Introduction

This essay focuses on the theme of gender roles and marriages and will be comparing “The Necklace” and “The Story of an Hour”. The theme of the work, the necklace is the responsibility of a married couple struggling to answer for the lost necklace. The theme in “The Story of an Hour” has various themes, among them the most significant is the feminism. In this paper, the themes will be discussed along with the brief introduction of both the stories.

Discussion

Life is beautiful! In order to increase the beauty of the life people indulge in different habits and hobbies. One such hobby is to read books. In life and during the academic period we read books that lean an everlasting impact on us or teach us different lesson. In order to extract a lesson out of a story or a book it is significant that we should evaluate different facets of the story. The story of an hour is written by Kate Chopin. It is a different story. The story presents variegated concepts of feminism. The themes of the story and various other facets are discussed in the same paper.

However, The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant is a story of a young couple with different outlooks on life. Life in the story can be compared to a coin in a toss. In every coin toss, there are two sides of the coin. The coin goes up possibly flipping from time to time during ascension, but the coin always falls to the ground. Once on the ground the coin can be picked up again. The fact remains the same that every scratch that occurs on the coin by falling on the ground becomes part of the coin forever. Different perspectives about life of a young couple can be regarded as two different sides of the coin. The two views shared by one couple eventually alter the course of both of their lives.

The Précis of the Story of an Hour and the Necklace

The story is about a woman who goes through major and drastic changes of emotions and feelings within an hour. The story conveys a notion and an idea in an unconventional way. The story is about a woman Mrs. Mallard who is a patient of heart problem. When the family members get the news that Mr. Mallard has died in an accident then they make an attempt to give this news to Mrs. Mallard in a subtle way so that this news does not destroy her. When Mrs. Mallard came to know about the death of her husband she cried and then went to her room. In her room, she begins to think of her future without her husband and she begins to realize that her future is going to be free and independent. As the family members were worried about her because she was alone so her sister Josephine was keeping a check on her to know ...