The Story of an Hour

Thesis statement

Feminism is an ideology considering with women's labours for the identical privileges as men.

Introduction

Chopin's outlooks of feminism inspired her to incorporate those outlooks into some of her short tales and she became unpopular and shunned for her ahead thinking. Her short story, The article of an Hour, captures the essence of Chopin's feministic views because the major feature, Mrs. Mallard, becomes enlightened about her rights of liberty and happiness when her husband dies, and she becomes proactive by sacrificing her mortal life in order to retain her immortal freedom and happiness when it is found that her husband is not dead. The Setting of the article comprises the limitation of women's life at the time period when Mrs. Mallard lived. Her husband loved and cared about her so much (Chopin 594) The Setting of the story the context that the story was written, at the end of the 19th century, woman were often not allowed many rights. Their function in humanity was trifling contrasted to what men had. Chopin, a feminist ahead of her time, values irony in this particular article to display the unequal function women had in connections in the late 1800's. The article takes place in the Mallard's dwelling, but Chopin does not offer sufficient clues to where or when the activity takes location for book reader to focus on topic of the story.

Analysis

In The article of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard, the protagonist, is a young woman who is unhappily wed to her husband. She is sad because she feels that she is not free and is tricked in her marriage. When Chopin implies that Mrs. Mallard is trapped in her wedding ceremony, it is proposed that she is tricked in her marriage by the communal expectations of the 19th years rather than by her family or her husband. In the 19th years women were anticipated to get married and submit to the command of their husbands. Once married, women became the properties of their husbands. Most married women were not allowed to own land. I am sure that most married women felt like they were deprived of their freedom like Mrs. Mallard. Fortunately for Mrs. Mallard, her oppressing husband supposedly died in a tragic railroad accident leaving her physically free from his oppression.

When told the news of her husband's tragic death by her sister Josephine, Mrs. Mallard does not react to it as most women would have with the paralyzed inability to accept its significance (Chopin 188). Instead, she quickly accepts the notion that her husband is really dead and does not question the legitimacy of it. This suggests to the reader that maybe subconsciously Mrs. Mallard had already thought about her husband dying because he was an older gentleman, and she wanted him to die so that she could be free. The cause I say that Mr. Mallard is an older gentleman is because in the 19th century young women marrying older men was considered the ...