Comparison of "The Story of an Hour" and "The Disappearance"
It has always been assumed that the modern women are far different from the women in the traditional women. Many believed that women from the olden years (such as the Victorian era, or the years of the 1700's or 1800's) are treated in an extremely different way from the women in today's generation. However, there are some written stories that tell otherwise. Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" was written in 1894 while Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "The Disappearance" was written in 1995. Chopin is of white decent, while Divakaruni is Indian. The stories and the authors came from two different times and from two opposite ends of the world, yet the very theme and personification of the woman characters in both stories tell the same thing. There are big similarities between the characters of he woman, the way they are being treated by the society and by their own family (the husband) and the way they responded to such treatment are parallel. In "The Story of an Hour", Mrs. Mallard is the main character while in "the Disappearance" the author opted not to give any specific name to the lady character. Both women have a husband. Both women are loved by their husband but they seemed not so happy with the kind of love they w
She felt that she was ties with an invisible knot. Despite the differences in setting (the time and place), both women in the stories show the gender issue, particularly within the family. Mallard, the Indian wife sought a way to be freed. Not all men can do that, not all husband have already realized that. and they would walk over sedately to give him his welcome-home kiss. Mallard was extremely happy with the idea that she could decide for her own and do what she wanted to do without having to ask her husband first. Both of the women would want to have freedom in a way that they would want to decide for themselves, do what they wanted to do, and be treated like equally. Mallard died because of disappointment because she had expected that her husband had really died. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering. They personified the women then and now. It may seem that there gender issue has been lifted and the women and men are treated equally.
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