The American
author, Kate Chopin grew up in the time of the battle for women’s rights. She
was raised in a culture where many people were holding on to society and value
the way they were, and yet many others were feeling there was need for change.
Kate wrote stories about women in the future. In the Story of an hour it
expresses through the main character, Louise Mallard. In the end of this story,
the equilibrium of Louise Mallard’s situation is what survives: Brently mallard’s
return signals the return of her oppressive condition and ensures that Louise
will experience no more than a momentary change her situation.
When Louise
Mallard goes to her room, she cries to see a window “free!, Body and soul free!”.
It means she was gotten a lot of oppression from Brently so she thinks she can
enjoy her freedom to the fullest without her husband. Her sister, Josephin and
Brently’s friend, Richard think she may be anxious and gloomy of his death,
however, she is not grieve, she is pleased
of that telegram.
Louise’s status
as “wife” is reestablished at once in the story’s language and in Louise’s life
when Brently comes in “view of his wife”. Before Louise heard a telegram that
Brently is dead by accident, everything was focused on her husband and lived
around his life. But, when she hears news from her sister, she thinks she can
way out of her husband’s oppression, however, Brently comes back to home while
Louise enjoys her short-freedom. Then all of oppression also comes back with
him. Also, Louise’s status as “wife” is also came back to her.
Brently Mallard had never looked save with love upon her. He
disregarded Louise’s happiness. Brently had all hegemony. Even though, Louise
loves him. When she goes to her room, even he was kind of aggressive to Louise,
she had loved him – sometimes. It means at that time there was patriarchal
system in order to most of men were above women. Louise was still oppressed
from Brently because he might have patriarchal in his mind. It would have
disturbed relationship between Louise and Brently.
Louise was still
looked upon as needing the protection and support of her husband. She has never
enjoyed her freedom and received her husband’s love. In this story Louise is
eager for free because she has lots of oppression from Brently.
Many of Kate Chopin’s female characters seek freedom from the
conventional restraints of society, including marriage. Louise is also one of
female character of shows women image which is get oppression from men.
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