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Prompt Two
Choose one short story and one poem from the 19th century.
Write to compare the ways in which each of these may be considered representative of American culture during the time period in which it was written. Cite specific evidence from the literature to support your ideas.
Choose one short story and one poem from the 19th century.
Write to compare the ways in which each of these may be considered representative of American culture during the time period in which it was written. Cite specific evidence from the literature to support your ideas.
Women have been hungering for human and equal rights since the first visible divide between man and woman. Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour, is an exemplified written piece on the struggles women faced in the 19th century. During this time, women were hindered or shunned from divorcing their husbands and often trapped in marriages based on family interests. Whether the wife was abused, neglected, or perfectly content in her marriage did not matter; only her performance and faith to her partner would suffice 19th century standards. If a wife proclaimed to be unhappy with her husband or lifestyle, then she would be blamed and held under the persecution of God’s commands and society’s demands.
Mrs. Mallard, the tragic protagonist in The Story of an Hour, appears to be stuck in a rocky relationship with her husband, until she receives word of his death. Although the idea of abuse never comes to light, the reader can infer from Mallard’s thoughts “the face [of her husband] that had never looked save with love upon her” that her spouse did not display affection or passion to his wife in a healthy manner. Upon hearing the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mallard is met with a mixture of conflicting emotions. Eventually, these feelings split into one signature breath of “free, free, free” in which she elates with “monstrous joy” of her lover’s death. At this particular paragraph, it appears Mrs. Mallard had been waiting for a moment she had thought would never arrive: liberty from the bonds of marriage to an unloving husband. Chopin’s story portrays the fictional yet relatable ideas of a young lady struggling to understand and establish her freedom in a time of oppression.
Further evidence of the time period’s concepts and of Mrs. Mallard’s entrapment surfaces near the end of the piece. Mr. Mallard returns home, alive and well, and upon seeing his living face, the wife drops dead. In the 19th century, Americans would have believed “she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills” meaning society would have thought the wife had a heart attack from excessive joy at seeing her husband safe. However, readers know from Chopin’s prior paragraphs that Mrs. Mallard likely had overexertion due to having a newfound sense of freedom and, being profoundly disappointed with shock from viewing her husband’s breathing form, collapsed into a state of despair in which the result was death.Answer:
What they want you to do is to select one of the given prompts that they have written out for you. Either Prompt One or Prompt Two.
Explanation:
If I were to choose Prompt One, I would follow the instruction as given. I would Google or otherwise find and read an American short story and also a historical document as they have told me to. Once I read them both, I would proceed to follow the instruction and compare and contrast both pieces of writing with a paragraph or two as they have told me to do at the beginning. Basically, they want you to read and write a compare and contrast little bit.
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