Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour :: Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour

Kate Chopins The Story of an HourKate Chopin was a Victorian writer whose composing manifests her life experiences. She was not happy with the principles of the time, because women had fewer rights, and they were not considered equal to men. Afraid of segregation from society, people lived in a hypocritical world full of lies moreoer, Kate Chopin was not afraid of segregation, and used her writing as a weapon against oppression of the soul. Marriage was an oppressor to Chopin, she had been a victim of this institution. Being a victim of married couple, Chopins Story of an Hour, is an expression of her turn over that, marriage is an institution that oppresses, represses, and is a source of discontent among human beings.Mrs. M aloneard love her husband.She wept at onceThis was her first response to the news of his death. She would not had grieved over someone she did not love. Even in the heat of her passion she thinks to the highest degree her lost love.She knew that she would w eep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death the face that had never looked safe with love upon her, fixed and grizzly and dead.Her love may not have been the greatest love of all time, but it was still love.Marriage was not kind to Mrs. Mallard, her life was pall and not worth living, her face showed the years of repression. If she did love this man, why was marriage so harmful to her? Marriage was a prison for herThere would be no powerful will bending her in that blind industry with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.Marriage oppressed her, she involve freedom, freedom to grow and do what she wanted to do, and marriage took that away from here. Chopin didnt believe that one person should take away anothers freedom.