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Story Of An Hour By Kate Chopin

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In the “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin the theme is imprisonment. This theme shows the restrictions that the husbands place on wives in the late 1800’s. “There would be no powerful will bending hers”(12). From this quote we can see that Mrs Mallard feels like her husband has control over her and she has to obey whatever he says. This treatment of women was considered normal at the time when the story was set. Treating women like that nowadays would be completely unacceptable. This feeling of imprisonment that Mrs Mallard experienced I can only assume that this feeling is experienced by other women at that time too. The feeling of imprisonment by her husband was stripped from Mrs Mallard as soon as she was told that he had died. "Free! Body
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