In the story, “Of An Hour”, Mrs. Mallard is heartbroken when her sister breaks down at her the death of her husband. She feels her environment start to change negatively and that life was not the same for her anymore, she had lost a huge piece of herself. Her husband then comes and her mood is suddenly lifted. This shows her husband playing a huge part in her happiness in her life. This passage discusses how a character can feel a change coming into their environment. She repeated the word “Free” to persuade herself that things were going to be okay and that she needs to move and do more. The poem “Wife”, by Emily Dickinson, explains how she is willing to sacrifice her life before being married, and giving it up for her husband. She realized that she wanted to become to a standard for her husband, where she would have to do different things, and how her life was going to change and not be the same anymore. She did not want to miss any day with him to help him out. They both show how marriage plays a significant role in wives’ lives. It gives them control and wanting to be accepted and validated.
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In the story, ” The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. Mallard, while grieving by the window in her bedroom, found that a thought beyond the grief was creeping into her mind and growing stronger than the sorrow she felt from the news of the death of her husband. She describes the resistance of the emotion by saying ” She was striving to beat it back with her will.” However, the smell of the rain and the clouds in the sky, gave her a sense of new beginning and her life being her’s again. While the sister, Josephine and the husbands friend believed she was mourning, It was frowned upon for her to express the extreme happiness that came with the thought of her freedom. The poem ” The wife” by Emily Dickinson, speaks on the depth of a feeling only known by the person themselves, “but only to himself is known the fathoms they abide”, how far thoughts and reach that sit in our minds without being able to express them. ” If aught she missed in her new day, of amplitude or awe, or first perspective, or the gold in using wore away.” expresses to me how the wife, in both the poem and the story, longs quietly, for who she was before she was married.
The theme of Emily Dickinson’s “The Wife” relates to the emotional state of “The Story Of An Hour” because they both take place during a time period where women didn’t have the same rights as men and overall highlights the unhappiness that women during this period felt for example in “The Wife Emily Dickinson states She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. While in The Story Of An Hour the women loses her husband (falling into the sea) but after she is finished crying she comes to the realization that she’s free (“Develops pearl and weed”,) these stories overall highlight how women felt at the time when it came to being at the behest of their husbands and not having being happy about their life or freedom until their husband passes away then they will be able to be free.
In the reading Oedipus the king, Timeless human experience, or behaviors we can find is from oedipus the king he who is brave, We know this because he ruled and serve at Thebes until his last days, he showed bravery. In the article we can read it said, you that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this, Oedipus, him who knew the famous riddle and was a man most masterful: 1725 not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers misfortune swallow him! looked upon the last days always, Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain. This is refer to him telling us he will ruled till his last days, as a brave ruler not scare of his last days. This is a timeless human behavior because everyone is brave many different ways but we are brave.
The theme of Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Wife” relates to Mrs. Mallard’s emotional state in “The Story of an Hour?” because of the low mood and unhappiness. My assumption is that Mrs. Mallard emotions before she found out her husband passed away were described as the lines below from the poem: “If aught she missed in her new day Of amplitude, or awe, Or first prospective, or the gold In using wore away” In my opinion the lines above describe the nostalgia of spontaneous glee, wonder, and good thoughts that aren’t there anymore. In Mrs. Mallard’s words, being “free”. I’m pretty sure in the beginning of both marriages mentioned there were wonderful times, but somewhere they grew apart. This has caused the wives to be full of disappointment, grief, and not wanting to be with the person anymore. During these times society didn’t believe in divorce, so women really had to stick it out with their husbands. This made them miserable, however they continued their duties of being a good wife. Emotions were held inside, and it was all about the husbands. Mrs. Mallard’s joy to find out her husband passed away made it obvious to readers that she wasn’t happy. So unhappy to the point she drops dead when her husband walks through the door alive.
Oldipus: What can I see to love? 1525 what greeting can touch my ears with joy? take me away, and haste- to the place out of the way! take me away, my friends, the greatly miserable, the most accursed, whom god too hates above all men on earth! I think this passage meaning or it’s referring to of who or which men can he trust or feel love as a friend, if from all men they an betray you. From what you have or are many of them sometimes envy you for that and want what you have, so that’s what I think he is trying to say. He also say this because of the truth of what happen with the king on that age who slowly betray not just only any friend or men. Doing whatever for what a man what’s, he becomes the worst from everyone. This is what this passage is most saying, as he says, What can I see to love, If he you don’t know who can betray you. Take me away, my friends, the greatly miserable, the most accursed. whom god too hates above all men on earth. referring to, all those bad mean friends, who even god might hate betray you and even though they are your friends.
