Sorrowful Woman vs. Story of an Hour - 805 Words

Effect of Irony In â€Å"Story of an Hour† â€Å"A Sorrowful Woman† A life as a wife and/or a mother, is usually appreciated and is a happy life as well. A relationship between two people should consist of joy, commitment, responsibility, and most importantly love. For the two main characters in both stories ( â€Å"The Story of An Hour†, and â€Å"A Sorrowful Woman† ) this was not the case. The stories go against societies view with marriage roles and happiness. In â€Å"The Story of an Hour† by Kate Chopin, the main character (Mrs.Mallard) is a married woman. Mrs.Mallard was afflicted with a â€Å"heart problem†. The author was not very specific about her troubled heart, which seemed to be a symbol of not just physical, but emotional distress as well.†¦show more content†¦This explains her sanity was gone and she was unhappy with herself. Eventually the character isolates herself in a room, away from her family as she examined the outside world through her window. The irony in that scene is that she was trapped behind the outside world, just as she was trapped within herself. As she spent her days in the white room, she began to develop different routines but none of them satisfied her. She was unhappy with herself until she tried once more to transform herself once again as a wife and mother. During her last attempt of being a housewife she took the time to knit two sweaters for her husband and son. The sweaters were both dull and gray as in lifeless, which is ironic towards the way the character perceived herself or surroundings. In both stories, each woman was put into a stereotypical role of being housewives. This was popular in history because women did not have much choice or option rather then stay home and cook, clean, take care of their children, etc. Both women were married but instead of appreciating their lives in a joyful perspective, they were oppressed by their living conditions. In both stories, there is a window scene mentioned. The window seems to have symbolism of freedo m which is ironic, because in reality they were both trapped in unhappiness. Each time the characters looked through their windows, the outside view is described through the characters perspective in a optimistic and desirable tune, while stayingShow MoreRelatedMetz Film Language a Semiotics of the Cinema PDF100902 Words   |  316 Pagesthey have a thousand more insidious embodiments, which the quality of even the most perfectly regulated performances cannot suppress—since one finds them arising from the audience as well as from the stage, in the man s pose of independence, in the woman s dress and make-up.19 By hermetically isolating fiction from reality, film instantly dismisses this set of resistances and levels all obstacles to spectator participation. Participation, however, must be engendered. A man may be freed from his bondsRead MoreIgbo Dictionary129408 Words   |  518 Pagesharmony system in that it can occur with both sets of vowels, but belongs to the dotted set in that it selects dotted vowels to harmonize with it: á »â€¹mÄ“ á » mà ¨là ¹Ã¯â‚¬ ¨ to do (vs. normal imÄ“) he did (vs. normal o mà ¨là ¹Ã¯â‚¬ ¨) Furthermore, the sequences i-e, o-e appear in this dialect as á »â€¹-e, á » -e: á »â€¹fe thing (vs. normal ife) à ²Ã¯â‚¬ ¤ke rat (vs. normal à ²ke). When it was intended to use the Onitsha Town dialect throughout, these dotted forms were written, but later the more general forms were restored. The dotted