Compare 'The Woman's Rose', 'The Story of an Hour' and 'The Necklace'.
GCSE: Pre Twentieth Century Prose Essay. Compare 'The Woman's Rose', 'The Story of an Hour' and 'The Necklace'. In a time where woman's views were seldom heard Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin and Olive Schreiner give life to three woman's struggles against the patriarchal society they live in. The writers three different views, which are compared in; 'The Necklace', 'The Story of an Hour' and 'The Woman's Rose' help shed light on the experiences of women in the nineteenth century. I will focus on comparing the treatment of love and romance, the way society is structured and the way it looks upon these three women and their personal expectations at the time. I will look at how the writers develop hope and surprise in their stories, how they use symbolism and to what affect is it used. Then I shall compare the writer's styles and the purpose to which they use literary techniques. I shall finally conclude my essay by stating the main arguments of my essay and what the reader learns about the percentage of women in the nineteenth century. The theme of love and romance is prominent in all three stories however there is a negative view on it in each one. In 'The Woman's Rose' the unnamed woman does not like the way women are proposed to without being in love and is completely dissatisfied with the way in which the romantic attention she gets is superficial as the reader can see
Examine the Conflict that Arises in the Stories "Desiree's Baby" and "Crackling Day".
Examine the Conflict that Arises in the Stories "Desiree's Baby" and "Crackling Day" Racism has been an issue throughout time, and in some societies it is still present. The belief that an individual of a different race or colour is not equal to an individual, who is "white", has caused many fights, arguments and deaths. In the nineteenth century, the slave trade was at its height, as we see in "Desiree's Baby". The conflict between different races is also shown in "Crackling Day". Although both stories were written at different periods and set in different continents, both challenge the idea of racism. "Desiree's Baby" is set in the deep south of Louisiana. It shows prejudice against the "blacks" by Armand Aubignys , a cruel plantation owner, "Young Aubigny's rule was a strict one, too, and under it his Negroes had forgotten how to be gay". Armand is a very important man, as he owns a plantation, this also means that he has power over "his Negroes". Armand is full of self-importance, "what did it matter about a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?" and very proud of his family and his origins. Within this society it is important to know a person's background, as there was an order within the society. For example Armand would be one of the men at the top of this order, whilst "his Negroes" would be at the bottom. As Armand
Discuss the role and character of the two women in 'The Story of an Hour' and Desiree's Baby'.
Kate Chopin Assignment Kate Chopin, born in 1850, was an American writer who lived in New Orleans and then in rural Louisiana. Her father died in a train crash when she was very young and she was brought up in an all female household. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin and had five sons and one daughter. She enjoyed a happy marriage and was seen as a loving wife and a devoted mother. After her husband's death, she took over the running of the cotton plantation that her husband worked in. After having started her literary career she published two major novels and nearly hundred short stories, essays, poems, plays and reviews. She died ten years later after writing her last novel, 'The Awakening', when published in 1894. Two of Kate Chopin's short stories, which are 'The Story of an Hour 'and' Desiree's Baby were set in the mid 1800s and both were also set in Louisiana. 'The Story of an Hour' is about a woman, Mrs. Mallard, who her husband was believed to be in a train crash and after all the excitement of feeling 'free' her husband shows up unexpectedly and was awfully shocking for Mrs. Mallard to handle! 'Desiree's Baby' is about Desiree who Armand, a rich slave owner, falls in love with. When Desiree was a girl she had been abandoned as a baby on a neighbouring plantation and brought up as a daughter of the house of Valmonde. As no one knew her true origin, after having a son
Discuss the ways in which women novelists or poets challenge the “natural” roles of women.
Discuss the ways in which women novelists or poets challenge the "natural" roles of women. Before I can discuss the way in which these novelist challenge the 'natural´ roles of women it is, for me, necessary to have some idea of what has been considered the 'natural´ roles of women. I have chosen for my example to use the ideals set down in an article from an organization called 'The Cult of Domesticity and True Womanhood´. This organization was prevalent in the nineteenth century. It published many articles on what it called 'A new ideal of womanhood´ and the 'cult of domesticity´. Its ideals were aimed at the new middle class, where the female of the household did not need to work or make what was needed for the survival of the family. One of its main aims was to create the opinion that it should be men who supported the family. They explained this by saying, "Men alone should support the family. The world of work, the public sphere, was a rough world, where a man did what he had to in order to succeed, that it was full of temptation, violence and trouble. A woman who ventured out into such a world could easily fall prey to it, for women were weak and delicate creatures. A woman´s place was therefore in the private sphere, in the home, where she took charge of all that went on." (The Cult of Domesticity and true womanhood) The cult of Domesticity and true
Compare 'The Woman's Rose', 'The Story Of An Hour' and 'The Necklace'.
GCSE Coursework Pre Twentieth Century Prose Compare 'The Woman's Rose', 'The Story Of An Hour' and 'The Necklace'. In this essay I am going to compare 'The Woman's Rose', by Olive Schreiner, 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin and 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant. In these three stories there are many similarities and differences. The three stories are set in the patriarchal nineteenth century. All three poems contain a hint of women gaining independence, having a certain time of happiness when they are 'free'. In the nineteenth century women had a low status and the husbands during that time were dominant, the women were weak in power and they were forced to be dependent on their husband's. As the women were dependent they often felt isolated and unhappy as they could not make the decisions. Kate Chopin and Olive Schreiner were voicing their unhappiness in their stories. "The flowers were damp; they made mildew marks..." here Schreiner includes the use if flowers which represent love and happiness, but by using just the one word 'damp' it gives the readers the feeling of discontent making us feel sympathetic towards the woman in the story, who is not named making it feel as if Olive Schreiner is narrating. In the nineteenth century it was thought that women were not supposed to be successful, and they were to stay at home and look after the children and the house. So
Men Through Women’s Eyes.
Men Through Women's Eyes Kate Chopin's Desiree's Baby and Elizabeth Gaskell's The Half Brothers, are both vividly poignant stories, -each encompassing an intensity of drama that captures the emotional response of the reader. Incorporating powerful and in places, controversial themes such as loyalty, betrayal, racial prejudice and self-sacrifice, the stories are a testament to their authors; in many ways reflecting their own personal experiences. About Kate Chopin Although an American by birth, Kate Chopin was of mixed French and Irish ancestry. She was born in St Louis in 1850, the daughter of Thomas O'Flaherty, a prosperous merchant who had emigrated from Ireland, and Eliza, the descendant of an aristocratic French family. Her upbringing was affluent and strictly Catholic- her later controversial works may have been an unconscious rebellion against this rigidly austere core element of her childhood. Aged 20, Kate married Oscar Chopin, a cotton trader. They lived first in New Orleans, then moved to their own cotton plantation on the Cane River in Louisiana. Kate devoted herself to motherhood, producing six children, and to caring for the less well-to-do plantation workers in the district. It was a happy and contended life. Her husband's sudden death from swamp fever in 1883 left Kate devastated. It is largely in this way that the story of Desiree's Baby relates so
When it was first published, 'The Awakening' shocked contemporary critics - Explore Chopin's presentation of events in the society of the novella, which might have shocked the critics.
Claire Gittoes When it was first published, 'The Awakening' shocked contemporary critics. Explore Chopin's presentation of events in the society of the novella, which might have shocked the critics. Kate Chopin presents the audience with a many concepts and ideas, which may have made them, feel uncomfortable, at least that is what they would have felt at the time. Most critics did not like the fact that "The Awakenings" main character, Edna Pontellier, went against the socially acceptable role of women at that time. At that time in history, women did just what they were expected to do; be good daughters, good wives, and good mothers. Edna's gradually defies all of the social restraints placed on her and this received a great deal of criticism. There are many points in the novel, which one could understand would have shocked contemporary readers, for example, Edna's adultery and her rejection of her 'mother woman' role. As Pamela Knights suggests, "It took tremendous daring to choose a heroine who was not 'a mother woman' in a society where many held the same view, 'there are women lacking the maternal instinct as there are claves born with two heads, but for the purpose of generalization theses exceptions may be ignored.'" Throughout the novella Edna is presented as a distinct contrast to the other Creole women, " she made no ineffectual effort to conduct her household
Essay On the Comparison Between the Two Women In the Necklace and Desiree’S Baby, How They Are Presented By the Author, How Sympathetic I Feel Towards Them and the Role Played By Fate In the Two Stories
TELLING TALES: Essay on the comparison between the two women in The Necklace and Desiree's Baby, how they are presented by the author, how sympathetic I feel towards them and the role played by fate in the two stories The main character in The Necklace, written by Guy de Maupassant, is a woman named Mathilde. In Desiree's Baby, written by Kate Chopin, the main character is, not surprisingly, Desiree. Both central characters are female. In this essay I will compare these two characters and show to you how fate, a theme of both stories, has affected their lives. I will also try and explain how sympathetic I feel towards the characters because I believe that this affects how large the role of fate played in their lives is. For example, if the author doesn't try to induce that many feelings of sympathy for a character the reader is less likely to feel sorry for the character or like them and thus blame their misfortune less on fate and more on the character bringing it upon itself. Class and culture play an important part in both stories, class more so in The Necklace and culture more so in Desiree's Baby. This is because Mathilde is a malcontent, a quality of her character that I have deduced from the fact that the whole of the third, fourth and fifth paragraphs are about the false dreams and aspirations she has. I know they were false because The Necklace not being real
Notes on "Desiree's Baby"
Notes on "Desiree's Baby" Notice how the title foreshadows the story. "Desiree's Baby" sounds innocent enough as the title at the beginning, but we realize its significance when Armand denies the baby as his. He denies the baby when he realizes that his son is obviously partially black in ancestry (which is what everybody but Desiree and Armand recognizes immediately). Given the extreme prejudice of the era, such a reaction is not surprising, particularly given Armand's violent temper. Armand blames Desiree for the mixed ancestry of the baby because she was an orphan, her parentage unknown. Her complexion was fair, but she could have still passed on a dark complexion to her son. The fact that Armand is darker than her makes no difference to him, but is imporant to the story, leading to the final irony -- it was Armand's mother who was black. His father had concealed the fact by living with her in Paris & moving back to Louisiana without her. Much of "Desiree´s Baby" is told by implication, in this essay I will concentrate on the implications about Armand´s feelings and his feelings towards the baby after he found out it was black. In the story we see a deep contrast in Armand´s emotions, and ways of expressing these emotions. It says near the start that "Armand is the proudest father in the parish" and that "he hasn´t punished one of them" to "an awful change in
Compare three Pre 20th century horror stories in terms of how successful they are within this genre.
Shabbir Khan 10F Mrs. Ackah Compare three Pre 20th century horror stories in terms of how successful they are within this genre. The three stories I have studied were 'The Monkey's Paw' written by W.W. Jacobs, 'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells and 'Desiree's Baby' written by Kate Chopin. Each story was set in or written before the 20th century. The stories reflect their different perceptions of different aspects in society at the time. Each story can be classified in the horror genre although the three stories are very different. 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W. Jacobs was written in the mid 19th century when India was a part of the British Empire. Sergeant Major Morris had returned to England from India and brought a 'monkey's paw' with him. He showed it to Mr and Mrs. White and their son, he claimed that the paw granted three wishes. One of the wishes made resulted in death. 'The Monkey's Paw' relies on a lot of suspense. Mysterious characters such as Sergeant Major Morris "...tall, burly man, beady of eye..." adds to the suspense because his role in the story at the beginning is hidden and it is clear he is a significant character. The author also makes Mr. White and his son talk about him before he comes to the house, giving him more importance in the story, "I should hardly think he'll come tonight." This makes the reader want to know more about him. However,