Essay Comparing Louise of Story of an Hour and Nora of A Dolls House

Comparing Louise of The fib of an Hour and Nora of A Dolls polarity In Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour, the main section is a wo world who has been controlled and conformed to the norms of society. Louise Mallard has apparently given her entire biography to assuring her husbands happiness while forfeiting her own. This truth is also apparent in Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House. In this story, Nora Helmer has also given her life to a man who has actually little concern for her feelings or beliefs. Both of these characters live genuinely lonely lives, and both have a desire to find out who they really are and also what they are capable of becoming. Although the characters of Nora and Louise are very much alike in many ways, their personalities differ greatly when it comes to qualification decisions regarding the direction of their lives. Both Nora and Louises lives have been shaped and molded to conform to their husbands wishes. At the time these stories took place, it was bas ically unheard of for women to assert their beliefs or to act upon their ideas. As a result, Louise was forced to succumb to the role of an obedient wife, in pose to abide by the norms of society. This is apparent because of the way she reacts when she learns of a false rumor regarding her husbands sudden death. While in deep thought, and staring out the windowpane by herself, she has a sudden realization of complete happiness and totality freedom. As she tries hard to repress these fresh, new feelings, she speaks the words, free, free, free (23) These words dish up the audience to understand the repression she has been forced to withstand for many years. She feels sudden inflammation as she reflects on what her new life will bring her. She speaks of the treatmen... ...ay. emancipation and Desire The Theme of Awakening in the Works of Kate Chopin. Critical Interpretations Kate Chopin. Ed. Harold Blooming. young York Chelsea House, 1989. 14-32. Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour. Introduction to Literature Reading, Analyzing, and Writing.2nd ed. Ed. Dorothy U. Seyler and Richard A. Wilan. Englewood Cliffs Prentice, 1990. Durbach, Errol. A Dolls House Ibsens Myth of Transformation. capital of Massachusetts Twayne, 1991. Ibsen, Henrik. A Dolls House. Introduction to Literature Reading, Analyzing, and Writing.2nd ed. Ed. Dorothy U. Seyler and Richard A. Wilan. Englewood Cliffs Prentice, 1990. Salom, Lou. Ibsens Heroines. Ed. and trans. Siegfried Mandel. Redding Ridge Black Swan, 1985. Templeton, Joan. The Doll House Backlash Criticism, Feminism,and Ibsen. PMLA (January 1989) 28-40.