Essay on the Search for Freedom in Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour

Search for Freedom in The Story of an Hour In the primaeval 1900s, espousals was comparable to a master-and-slave relationship. The role of the woman in the marriage was minimal. The womans place was in the house, caring for the children, cleaning the house, and doing otherwise womanly tasks. Chained to their husbands, marriage became prison to many women the only factor of breaking free from these bonds being the death of a husband. In Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour, Mrs. mallard lives for an hour, experiencing rebirth into freedom and death when that freedom is lost. succession sitting downstairs, Mrs. Mallard grieves over the loss of her husband, and over her new-found freedom. His death disunite out everything from right underneath her very own feet. Dependent and heartbroken, everything she relies on her husband for has now become her responsibility. Weeping with sudden, wild abandonment., Mrs. Mallard allows her emotions over her husbands death to flow freely, thus. ..