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        <title><![CDATA[mustangjbj,
A more precise term for Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[mustangjbj,
A more precise term for Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" is repression and not oppression.
The first sentence of the story proves to be essential to the end, though during the middle of the story the initial care to protect Mrs. Mallard from the “sad message” seems almost comic. It is usually assumed, too easily, or possibly incorrectly, that Mrs. Mallard’s “storm of grief” is hypocritical.
If you notice that the renewal...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:18:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," the oppression of women isn't...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," the oppression of women isn't super blatant; there is a woman who is unhappy in her marriage, and has a rather unusual reaction to news of her husband's death.  She is, after the initial grief and shock, actually overcome with a sense of freedom.  This is not because she was abused, or because her husband was an awful tyrant; in fact, as Louise Mallard (the wife) thinks of him, she realizes that "she...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:28:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the oppression of women in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the oppression of women in "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:41:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[After hearing the news of her husband's death, the first reaction that...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After hearing the news of her husband's death, the first reaction that we get from Mrs. Mallard is that she "wept at once, with          sudden, wild abandonment," which seems to indicate that she was horrified at the news, and miserable as a result of it.  In this reaction, Louise is playing the protagonist; she is reacting normally, we feel for her grief, and get wrapped up in the misery that she must be feeling.  Our hearts go out to her,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:00:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Story of an Hour" when Mrs. Mallard goes to her room, she...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Story of an Hour" when Mrs. Mallard goes to her room, she undergoes a change.  How is she both the protagonist and antagonist?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:53:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would add that it tells me that she is facing MANY years of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would add that it tells me that she is facing MANY years of "oppression" at the, perhaps unwitting, hand of her husband who seems to be out of the traditional model of the husband.  The length of her "sentence" in part explains her exuberance at have in "communted."  It also, in part, explains the depth of her despair when she finds that her husband is alive.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:30:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[She is indeed a very young woman to be having heart complications. Her...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[She is indeed a very young woman to be having heart complications. Her face is described as young and calm, plus

"whose lines bespeak repression and even a certain strength" (p. 312)

This is worth being noted, because since the theme of male dominance versus female fragility in the Victorian mindset is the most predominant theme in the story, it makes us wonder if those "lines of expression" being already showing in a young woman signify the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:41:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Ms. Mallard being young tell you about her life?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Ms. Mallard being young tell you about her life?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:35:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mrs. Mallard's tears are tears of joy and relief, she cannot believe her...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Mallard's tears are tears of joy and relief, she cannot believe her good fortune at being freed from the constraints of marriage.  Although she would not wish anything bad on her husband, she is nonetheless, relieved when she is told that he has been killed in an accident.

"She recognizes that she had loved her husband sometimes, but that now she would be "Free! Body and soul free!" She begins to look forward to the rest of her life...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 15:56:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Story of an Hour, the story's central conflict is the main...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Story of an Hour, the story's central conflict is the main character's shock at the discovery of her true inner feelings after being announced about the death of her husband. She did not expect, from what one perceives in the story, that she would actually welcome the situation. Her feelings shocked her, because she for the first time felt freedom and a sense of joy at being "released" from her role as submissive wife. In the end,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 15:44:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In The Story of an Hour, the antagonist would be Mr. Brentley Mallard,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In The Story of an Hour, the antagonist would be Mr. Brentley Mallard, Mrs. Mallard's husband.  The central conflict revolves around Mrs. Mallard being informed that her husband has been killed in a train accident.
After learning of this news, Louise Mallard goes upstairs into her room and sits in a chair facing a window and begins to imagine the life she will have as a widow.  Up until that moment, she never imagined that she would ever...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 15:43:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ In "The Story of An Hour," who or what is the antagonist and what is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In "The Story of An Hour," who or what is the antagonist and what is the story's central conflict? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 15:31:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chopin's use of "delicious" is a form of imagery. Because Chopin mixes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chopin's use of "delicious" is a form of imagery. Because Chopin mixes senses by using a word normally associated with taste to describe living (hence the word "breath"), her word choice is also an example of synesthesia, a literary device which mixes sensory images (i.e., He hit a sour note on the trumpet.).
More important is Chopin's choice of a word with a decidedly positive connotation to describe something such as rain that is normally a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 15:28:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Chopin introduces Mrs. Mallard in the story, the protagonist is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Chopin introduces Mrs. Mallard in the story, the protagonist is overwrought with emotion upon hearing of her husband's death.  She sobs uncontrollably in her sister's arms and then retreats to her room.  As she stares out the window at the gorgeous spring day, she,

"[sits] with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob [comes] up into her throat and [shakes] her . . ."

Most readers have...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 14:49:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here, the author is trying to make a scent or sensation more vivid by...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here, the author is trying to make a scent or sensation more vivid by attaching a taste-based adjective: delicious. By making the reader "taste" the smell of rain, it stands out more in his/her mind. This use of language is very similar to other forms of imagery, such as metaphor or other analogies. We know, for instance that men are not mountains, but if an author describes a man as a mountain, we can distinctly picture a larger-than-average...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 09:54:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Story of an Hour," why does Chopin describe Mrs. Mallard as "a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Story of an Hour," why does Chopin describe Mrs. Mallard as "a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 09:54:13 PST</pubDate>
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"The delicious breath of rain was in the air." Who is "tasting" here?...]]></title>
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"The delicious breath of rain was in the air." Who is "tasting" here? Why is the word used?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 09:25:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There have been many differing views published on "Story of an Hour" but...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There have been many differing views published on "Story of an Hour" but most readers agree that it is a feminist expression.  The story was written in 1890's and it reflected the very real idea of American society at that time that a woman could live only through her husband.  Most readers are shocked-more so then than now- that Mrs. Mallard feels free now that her husband is dead.  Irony is woven throughout this very short story.  Still...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:51:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the Message of “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin? What...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the Message of “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin? What is her famous novel? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:30:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the comparisons of the representation of marriage in "The Story...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the comparisons of the representation of marriage in "The Story of an Hour" and "The Lamp at Noon"?]]></description>
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