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 early 1900s, conjugation was comparable to a master-and-slave relationship. The role of the woman in the marriage was minimal. The womans mastermind was in the house, caring for the children, cleaning the house, and doing other womanly tasks. Chained to their husbands, marriage became prison to many women the only means of breaking free from these bonds beingness the death of a husband. In Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard lives for an hour, experiencing spiritual rebirth into freedom and death when that freedom is lost. While sitting downstairs, Mrs. Mallard grieves all over the loss of her husband, and over her new-found freedom. His death tears out everything from right underneath her very own feet. Dependent and heartbroken, everything she relies on her husband for has now kick the bucket her responsibility. Weeping with sudden, wild abandonment., Mrs. Mallard allows her emotions over her husbands death to flo w freely, thus...