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Freedom from Love: Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”

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An 8 page paper which argues how Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” can be interpreted as a story that speaks of the freedom from love. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

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8 pages (~225 words per page)

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heard that her husband is dead. It is a story of one womans realization that freedom awaits her, a freedom that speaks of the obligations and duties no longer expected from love and marriage. Many argue that it is nothing more than a story that illustrates the constricting conditions of the institute of marriage and seem to ignore, or barely touch, upon the fact that the woman did love her husband. In this love, or in many forms of love, there is a condition of self sacrifice that can be oppressive. As such the following paper argues how Chopins story, while being a story about the oppressive nature of marriage for women, is the story about one womans brief experience concerning freedom from love and all that it means. Story of an Hour Prior to truly moving into a discussion of Chopins story we offer up a poem that will help us delve into how Chopins story is one about love and the freedom from love. The poem is Allen Ginsbergs "Song" and it is a poem that reflects some of these perspectives, as seen here in the first few lines: "The weight of the world/ is love./ Under the burden/ of solitude,/ under the burden/ of dissatisfaction/ the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting reality, but a reality that is perhaps good and bad. With love comes obligations and duties, compromises and a subtle loss of self. It clearly speaks of love as far more burdensome than solitude or burden or dissatisfaction. With that in mind the following paper will incorporate some of Ginsbergs poem into specific references from Chopins story in supporting the argument that the ...

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