{"id":9308,"date":"2022-10-23T23:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T03:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2022-10-23T23:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T03:48:28","slug":"shaniyah-chisolm-discussion-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/10\/23\/shaniyah-chisolm-discussion-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaniyah Chisolm Discussion 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

The theme in Emily Dickinson’s \u201cThe Wife\u201d relates to Mrs. Mallard\u2019s emotional state in \u201cThe Story of an Hour\u201d by using the theme of oppressiveness within marriage. In \u201cThe Wife\u201d, there is a lack of independence within marriage.\u00a0 In \u201cThe Wife\u201d, line 1 starts off with \u201cShe rose to his requirement, dropped\u201d (Dickinson). I find this quote shows the lack of bodily autonomy, relating to how Mrs. Mallard felt during her marriage. In lines 3 to 4, the text states, \u201cTo take the honorable work Of woman and of a wife.\u201d (Dickinson). Dickson uses the two words woman and wife to mean very different things. You have to give up a part of yourself being a woman to become a wife, losing a part of yourself you once were to be a wife. The poem highlights the reality of how women are overlooked and their own identities are stripped away from them within marriages to please their husbands.<\/span><\/p>\n

In paragraphs 8 through 10 in \u201cThe Story of an Hour\u201d, Chopin writes, \u201cBut now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought. There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully\u2026 as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: \u201cfree, free, free!\u201d (Chopin). Her husband\u2019s death though shocking at first gave her a sense of independence. Normally a wife would be portrayed as devastating hearing their husband is dead but focusing on the societal expectations of a wife around that time period, marriage can be exhausting. Wives having to bend at their husband’s will would be thrilled to have them die. Mrs. Mallard feeling free ties back to being freed of the expectations of a wife depicted in \u201cThe Wife\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The theme in Emily Dickinson’s \u201cThe Wife\u201d relates to Mrs. Mallard\u2019s emotional state in \u201cThe Story of an Hour\u201d by using the theme of oppressiveness within marriage. In \u201cThe Wife\u201d, there is a lack of independence within marriage.\u00a0 In \u201cThe Wife\u201d, line 1 starts off with \u201cShe rose to his requirement, dropped\u201d (Dickinson). I find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-9-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}