The Freedom of Death

The Freedom of Death
The struggle between love and war is never ending. While one may have love, however war within that love can still exist, and vice versa. Women, being more emotional than men (usually), tend to put their emotions out there for the public either to accept or reject; not until recently have women’s emotions been more welcomed. Kate Chopin wrote a very intense piece which dealt with a woman’s pure, raw emotion, and she received much criticism for it. Taking a look at her piece, “The Story of an Hour,” we can see how Chopin expresses such raw emotions and why she received the criticism that she did.
Men and women have never been viewed as equals, especially during Chopin’s lifetime (18 -1904). Men were seen as the stability in the relationship and women were to be subservient to their men and this was not to be any other way. What Chopin does in this piece is she throws the rules out the window and expresses through her writing how women may truly fe...