Mrs Mallards Experience of Freedom in The Story of an Hour by Kate Cho

Mrs Mallards Experience of Freedom in The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin In The Story of an Hour, Mrs Mallard, who has a heart attack is the main protagonist. Like any ordinary women, she is a normal housewife who depends on her husband. The intelligence operation of her husbands death gives her freedom and sets her free from restraints, marriage and a lifetime of dependency. Kate Chopin uses several techniques to create the image of how freedom affects Mrs Mallard. At first, Mrs Mallard is shocked by the intelligence operation which is shown in She wept at once, with choppy, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms. and When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. These describe her immediate response and tell that she is so jolted by the news that she weeps at once and goes away alone. Chopin uses some special diction like sudden, wild abandonment and storm of grief to tell that the news is very abrupt and unsettling. T hese words create an unexpected and tense atmosphere which helps to plot the unpredictable emotions of Mrs Mallard. Meanwhile, Chopin uses personification to say that the news is a sudden attack to Mrs Mallard which strengthens the shocking emotion of Mrs Mallard. This can also be found in She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite an motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her... This says that Mrs Mallard is so confused and jolted that she sobs helplessly as Chopin uses motionless and sob which is a physical manifestation of an emotion to tell that Mrs Mallard is stunned and feeling disbelieving. Concurrently, Chopin use... ...s Mallard is now really enjoys life which is reinforces in Feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. as it suggests that Mrs Mallard is stimulated and is being confident and lofty by the trophy. Here, Chopin uses fascina tion diction feverish triumph and a simile like a goddess of victory to reflect Mrs Mallards emotion which create a very strong image of exultant which shows that she becomes optimistic to life and proud or even pride of herself. Chopin plots this to contrast to the ending She had died of heart disease-- of joy that kills. which makes a dramatic ending and marks the climax of the story.Works CitedChopin, Kate. ?The Story of an Hour.? From Roberts and Jacobs lit An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Sixth Edition, p. 392.