Kate Chopin'sThe Storm? explores the irrepressible desires of a young woman, drawn into the arms of a lost love as her husband and son are caught in a storm. The story, which takes place in the early 1900's, features Calixta as a dutiful housewife, devoted to her family, not at all unhappy with her life. When a storm keeps her family away, and brings an old love back into her life, Calixtaunconsciously? gives into the temptation that accompanies Alcee. Chopin adapts a tone of approval as she compares the storm outside to the raging whirlwind of desire in Calixta's body. The author uses the techniques of symbolism, structure, and diction to convey to the reader her feelings on the affair. .
Chopin's use of symbolism throughoutThe Storm? is significant in that it shows Calixta's innocence throughout the internal storm that engulfs her. The affair itself takes place on the couch, leaving the bed unviolated, with the sanctity of marriage soundly preserved. The purity of the affair is depicted through the author's use of the color white. Chopin uses the color again and again, specifically in her description of Calixta's body. She mentions her white neck, white breasts, and white flame.? Calixta's white neck shows the true purity inside of her. She refers to the passion as a white flame. In addition to the white symbolizing innocence and purity, the white is also symbolic as the hottest part of the flame; This passion was a force too powerful for her and Alcee to control. Chopin also uses a reference to a creamy lily to reinforce Calixta's purity and to link her to natural forces. .
The structure of the story is unique in its setup, for although the story is only three pages in length, the events are unfolded in a series of five different parts. In part one Chopin establishes Calixta and her family as normal and happy. Calixta's family is very close: the father and son take walks together to the store and often pick up her up some of her favorite treats.
Kate Chopin Kate Chopin, nee Catherine O"Flaherty, was born "[ ]according to her baptismal certificate, on February 8th1850 [ ]" (Toth 3), in St Louis Missouri. ... In 1870, Kate met and married Oscar Chopin, a Creole New Orleans native. ... Kolbenheyer was Kate Chopin's pivotal axis. ... Kate Chopin died on August 22, 1904. The 1960's marked a rebirth or "awakening" for Kate Chopin. ...
Kate Chopin faced tremendous amount hurdles that for many would be impossible to jump. ... Many of Kate Chopin's works deal with women in the 19th century whom , much like Chopin did not hold the rudimentary attitudes that was to be beholden to women. . ... (Hicks) With the absence of her father , Kate Chopin and her mother were forced to tackle the stationary roles of men. ... Kate Chopin , did this masterfully through her literary works two being The Awakening and "The Story of An Hour" Even though Kate Chopin faced many attacks she kept on writing on what she thought very strongly a...
"Too strong a drink for moral babies, and should be labeled 'poison'." was the how the Republic described Kate Chopin's most famous novel The Awakening (Seyersted 174). ... Kate O'Flaherty Chopin was raised in St. ... No longer Eliza O'Flaherty's daughter or Oscar Chopin's wife, Kate Chopin was forced to find a new role for herself. ... (Chopin 113). ... Louis shunned Chopin for writing it. ...
In "The Story of an Hour" and "The Storm", Kate Chopin creates an atmosphere so intense that it can almost be considered a character in itself. ... This is where Chopin goes to work creating an atmosphere. ... Without Chopin's creation of atmosphere and mood, the rest of the story would not make much sense. ... Chopin's use of personification brings the storm to life. ... In both, "The Story of an Hour" and "The Storm", Kate Chopin has gone to great lengths to make each part of her story essential. ...
Essay Assignment #3 Kate Chopin's "The Storm" By John Youssef Professor Johnson Humanities 420 Tuesday, December 8, 2003 Kate Chopin's "The Storm" Readings of Chopin's work's often note the tension between female characters and the society that surrounds them. Margaret Bauer suggests that Chopin is concerned with exploring the "dynamic interrelation between women and men, women and patriarchy, even women and women" (146). Often, critics focus on the importance of conflict in these works and the way in whi...
Feminist authors, such as Kate Chopin, tried to personify their characters as strong able individuals to "endorse feminine self-assertion-(Fluck 154) and make a statement for women while criticizing institutions that hindered women's rights. ... In "The Story of an Hour- Chopin places Mrs. ... Chopin shows this by comparing Mrs. ... Mallard's death, Chopin shows that Mrs. ... Kate Chopin showed through her words that women can be "Free! ...
In Kate Chopin's short story "The Storm" it is used as an omen, as well as perhaps despair, but it adds a different element to this story as well; it seems to be a force, perhaps destiny, perhaps a life in itself. ... Kate Chopin describes the forthcoming storm as "sinister"(139). ... Kate Chopin now describes it as "crashing torrents [of rain], and the roar of the elements" (141). ... Kate Chopin's most revealing line is perhaps the last, " So the storm passed and everyone was happy." (142). ...
Kate Chopin adorns her short story, "The Story of an Hour," through irony. By establishing an ironic undertone, Chopin consecrates an exemplary work that becomes dependant on the literary device and, as a result of its being implicated, is renown worldwide. ... Chopin's short story enabled the reader to interpret Louis Mallard, the main character, and society's view of her scenario as she ventured on an emotional rollercoaster. ... Karen Bernardo imparted how the theme of Chopin's short story "deals with an ironic twist." ... As one can see, irony has been interwoven into t...
Born Kate O'Flahrerty in St. ... After a few years as a society belle, she married Oscar Chopin in 1870, the son of a wealthy cotton farmer in Louisiana. ... He died in 1882, leaving Kate behind to run the store and plantation as well as raise the children. ... After the reaction to her novel, Chopin wrote only a few more stories. ... Kate Chopin was born in the years leading up to the American Civil War and experienced life in the South during the conflict and the period of Reconstruction that followed. ...
Kate Chopin wrote two short stories that provide examples of the way women act when they are freed of their homemaking responsibilities. For example, in the "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, Louise first cries when she hears of her husband's death. ... In this story, Chopin's main character is a woman today's society would call a homemaker. ... Chopin exposes these truths in her stories. ... Chopin shows that a woman will go to great lengths just to have the option to make her own decision. ...