Kate ChopinsThe Story of an Hour and Guy de Maupassants The Necklace

Kate ChopinsThe Story of an bit and computed axial tomography de Maupassants The NecklaceIn recent eld, feminism has a profound impact non nevertheless on the familys sociology, only also on other areas of cordial cognition. Feminists now analyze the patriarchys origin a system of mens control everyw here women, both within families and in the broader context of other fri cobblers lastly institutions. anthropological studies certify that each(prenominal) sufficiently learned societies were patriarchal, although the extent and nature of mens control in different societies differ significantly. However, in this paper, it is not important to go on the problem of the patriarchys ubiquity, but it is necessary to discuss the representation of sex roles and marriage in different whole kit and boodle of literature. For the best understanding of the offspring we are going to discuss two work of literature, such(prenominal) as Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour and Guy de Maup assants The Necklace. It is obvious that both literary works share a putting green melodic theme, but they are different in their versions, style and content. Defining that exactly a cleaning lady is a principal(prenominal) heroine in The Story of an Hour and The Necklace it is possible to consider the statement from a young-bearing(prenominal) point of view No female domination we fatality to have in literature. It is necessary not to separate a wo valet de chambre from the literary process, but exactly to find her place and designation in this process. It is important to fill the book and media not in female themes, but in the approval of the feminine world, kindness, mercy and tolerance.Analyzing two literary works in details we should think about their authors in general terms. freshman of all, we are going to talk about Kate Chopin as a salient(ip) writer of her time. Describing Kate Chopin (1851-1904) as the writer we can say that her name was include in the canon of an American literature and The Story of an Hour is considered to be a feminist reading. At the turn of the XIX century we experience a situation when a wave of an ideological movement for womens equality has led to a qualify in the concept of femininity, which inevitably involve its interpretation. New Woman has go bad a major cultural phenomenon of the deep Victorian literature. This is evidenced by the situation that in the period from 1883 to 1900, over ace hundred novels were focused on the innovative woman. Although Kate Chopin is treated as a cult figure in an American feminist literature, in her diary notes she describes her current work on the raw woman as the public fascination with hysterical, insincere and unhealthy patterns of life that some British women have entered into vogue in the literature. As any distinctive mechanic, Kate Chopin earlier conceptualized topical issues of feature time. Therefore, it is extremely important to trace the originality of th e authors interpretation of female themes in her works.Thinking about Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) we know that he was a famous 20th-century French writer, and he also was kn give as one of the fathers of the contemporary rook story. Fame came to de Maupassant in 1880 after the publication of his novel Doughnut, the firstly evidence of his artistic maturity. In general sense, de Maupassants stories and novels are characterized by their competent denouement and economy of style. His numerous short stories are quite diverse in topics, tones (sad, gay, ironical, malicious etc.) and genre features. But most of them in the homogeneous way as novels combines the estimation of ugliness of many throws of reality, brings a liking for beauty in human relations. De Maupassants unsurpassed skill as an artist was manifested in the fact that having an unusually sharp observation, the ability to select the brightest speech facts, the ability to generalize and typify he was able to revea l forged themes and make important cordial generalizations using own small novels as a field for a research. Using The Necklace as an example, we confabulate that there is no lengthy description and extensive features in de Maupassants literature. The essence of a man, the idea of the works literature derived from actions of dramatis personae and behavior. The main thing for the writer is to favour proper circumstances, to portray a situation in which dramatis personae act. It is impossible to take out without attending the fact that a major role in the novels by de Maupassant plays a storyteller. Putting the cashier into operation is not a new technique invented by de Maupassant, but in de Maupassants literary works the narrator adds a lively character, helps to create the impression of the reliability of what is said.The composition of his novels is eternally very skilful. The main role often plays denouement that is always diverse, because de Maupassant invariably striv es to ensure the intrigue for the commentator, and sends the readers thoughts on the understanding of the ideological meaning of stories. sometimes there is no denouement in the strict sense in de Maupassants novels and short stories. And The Necklace is such a kind of a story, because readers themselves should offer it. act our discussion let us quotation that The Necklace by de Maupassant is a short story-reasoning. From crude logic of a naked p big money, claiming that it is dangerous to borrow mortal elses expensive thing, de Maupassant leads the reader to the social and moral generalizations that are characteristic for realistic literature. The writer never imposes his views to the reader, he tries to be as objective as possible, hiding own personality in his narration. But his thoughts make the reader to think about life, and these arguments extend the plot of the novel to the level of social generalizations.Reading the story The Necklace by de Maupassant (1881), we see th e place and role of a woman in those times from the first words She was one of those jolly and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans. She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction and she let herself be espouse off to a little clerk in the Ministry of Education. In such a way, relationships between a man and a woman become overt immediately. Onega and Landa (1996) summarizing the plot stated that even though Mathilde is pretty and quite charming, she has none of the advantages of upper-class girls a dowry, a distinguished family name, an entree into society, and all the little fineries that women covet. Consequently, she accepts a match made for her with a clerk, Monsieur Loisel, in the department of Education. The young woman has no freedom in her actions and her place in society was predetermined from the first days of her birth. She has ma rried a man whom she never loved, but who was capable to take care of her. The story describes a situation when the above-mentioned Mathilde, wanting to shine at the ball, borrows a friends necklace. primal in the morning on the way home, she notices that the necklace disappeared. All searches were empty and she and her economise take a loan of thirty thousand francs to buy from a jeweler the same necklace and return it without explanation. In a result, the family forced to change own life and work off the debt, but at the end of the story we see that the necklace was false and ten years of life in poverty were unimportant. This story has no end, but it contains rethinking What is the true value? Is a heavy, dreary life of honest perfect family, or a necklace, which during 10 years is considered to be a phony more valuable? perchance some other writer would made history with a necklace deliberately humorous and comic, but de Maupassant in this anecdotal case saw sad. He reveal ed an idea about the way how people should be happy and how it is unavailable hap to be happy for the most part of population in his novel.In such a way grammatical sexual activity roles and marriage is described in an interesting way in the story and the writer is convinced in a world ruled by money, it is behind not only to destroy all the best, bright dreams of people, but to drain peoples spirit and mortals, to form in their minds the false ideals moreover, it is also very real and even easy to rob personal youth and beauty for the sake of something unimportant and false. In the hard world of material values, it is enough to find a fake trinket and become unhappy. Women and people with a fine psychic formation are unable to resist greed and envy and they heavier than others go by means of injustice of social order. Of course, it is indisputable that the writers skill was manifested in his ability to show in a single life situation broad social and moral problems of family and marriage.Comparing de Maupassants The Necklace to Chopins The Story of an Hour we see extremely another situation. The original interpretation of womens issues in the prose of Kate Chopin entailed important artistic innovations. Thus, communication nonverbal components receive a particular significance as a earnings for womens silence. According to Toth (1999), a parody of a literary clich and a discrepancy of a plot serve as a special form of cultural stereotypes alienation. Chopins story begins with the words Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as thinly as possible the news of her husbands death. Thus, it shows us that in a gender relation the idea of female softness and elegance was associated with the bodys fragility and bodied weakness of women. According to Hoder-Salmon (1992) we see that likewise, her marriage exemplifies the status of women in the proto(prenominal) twentieth century in that the woman is subject to the patriarchs powerful bequeath bending hers. Although Brently had never looked save with love upon her, he disregarded Louises felicity The lines of her face bespoke repression. So, a woman in marriage was like a bird in a cage. Observing the contemporary reality, it is possible to mention that disputes concerning a current status of a marriage and family with social scientists and in the mainstream press especially on the collapse of a marriage and intimate behavior often have no historical objectivity. In retiring(a) centuries, break-ups of marriages were very common, but mostly due to the death of a spouse, and not as a result of divorce. This kind of divorce we see in our case and analyzing it Pontuale (1998) wrote that What becomes noticeable to Louise when she hears of Mr. Mallards death is a change in the perspective before her. Whereas before she had thought with a shudder that life magnate be long, she now saw . . . a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. We see how in minutes of great grief, the main heroine overcomes a woman obedience, renunciation of herself for the sake of the family, social conventions, religious dogmas. And in addition to this fact Chopin and Knights (2000) added that even natural landscape reflects the main characters new perspectives and opportunities The trees were all aquiver with the new spring life, countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves, and patches of blue sky were showing here and there through the clouds after the storm of grief had spent itself. sort of of hearing the story of her husbands death as many women have heard the same, with a paralysed softness to accept its significance, Louise is enlivened and motivated Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood change and relaxed every inch of her body. It becomes obvious that she feels freedom, not from her husband, but from the existed rules, norm s and dogmas.Summarizing The Story of an Hour we see that it tells us about the complex mechanisms of self-discovery. Because the main heroine feels a lot of different emotions during the last hour of her life when to replace the first reply of genuine grief comes a strange feeling that she initially could not understand. Unexpectedly for herself in her soul appeared a sense of joy and enjoyment in an anticipation of life, free from someone elses diktat. Chopin (1894) wrote Free Body and soul free she kept whispering. An hour later, when her husband returned home, who turned out to be far away from the crash site Mrs. Mallard dies as doctors arrest of joy that kills. The last words in this context sound in particular ambiguous. Compositional contrast images, landscape sketches, the logic of artistic details, comparisons, epithets everything is subordinated to a common problem expressing the main ideas of the author.Comparing de Maupassants and Chopins representation of gender roles and marriage we see similar features, because Kate Chopin was influenced by Guy de Maupassants compositional art and also visible conciseness and accuracy of descriptions, attention to details, a subtle pattern of psychological truth and denouements mysteriousness. Contrasting Chopin to de Maupassant we see that an approachs specificity to an artistic understanding of a gender includes the fact that Chopins literary works sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly, focus attention on issues of self-realization of women, the ability of the heroines to understand own personality and own importance, both within the family and society.Thus, taking everything into account it is possible to come to a conclusion that both literary works share the common theme and both authors wanted to prove the fact that women strive not for the domination in society, but for own personality cognition and understanding of own role in life. In any case, a woman should puzzle a woman, and all poets a nd writers are right saying that exactly a woman is able to be kind, mercy, tolerant and make humanity better.