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The Story of an Hour 2

Date Submitted: 12/05/2004 15:22:51
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 2 pages (441 words)
Kate Chopin uses irony and symbolisim in "THe Story of an Hour" to show the nature of oppression of women in the late eighteen hundreds. Mrs. Mallard there is iriny just in her name, a mallard is and should be a wild free duck an untamed animal.But this mallard,Mrs. Mallard is the very oposite she is a controlled domesticated tamed animal.Her life is controlled by socitey and she is domesticated by her …
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…by her ihysical heart aliment. When she really dies because her joy for a new life was killed, due to her emotional heart aliment. Yet even more ironic is that the doctors who are always supossed to be right are wrong in the diagnosis of her death. Through the symbolism and irony that Chopin uses it is evident that the story is more then that of an hour, it is a story of a life.
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