A Story Of An Hour Literary Analysis

Freedom is the option of have the right to make your own choices. Having such freedom to be able to choose on our own is a right that many do not have because of situational circumstances. In the short story “A Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin the reader sees a woman morns for her husband’s death. In the poem “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell a nameless man ask a nameless women to be with him even though a woman cannot be with a man before she was married during that time period. A play Oedipus the King by Sophocles explains how a Greek King must choose between facing his faith and his choice of free will. Each work of literature explains the theme of freedom differently with each author having a similar purpose in mind. The theme …show more content…
Mallard grieving over her dead husband. When she goes upstairs into her room Mrs. Mallard begins to realize a change in her life. From the opening of the “patches of blue sky…She sat with her head thrown back…motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her… but [then] a rather ….intelligent thought.. was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless...when she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips… under her breath: ‘free, free, free!’ The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes… She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her…. she opened and spread her arms out to… welcome [the feel]... [Where their] would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.” This quote explains how happy Mrs. Mallard that her husband is death because she can finally live for herself and not just for her husband. During the nineteenth century women could not get a divorce from their husbands as easily as men because not only was the woman looked …show more content…
In the play a young Oedipus learned from an oracle that he was destined to kill his father, he left Corinth in order to avoid the words of the oracle. However, Oedipus did not know the father he left in Corinth was not his real father, but his adopted father Polynices. Oedipus was found by Polynices when he was a baby and was never told that he was adopted. While leaving Corinth Oedipus met a man at the three way-crossroads where they quarreled over the direction of who should cross the cross-road first. Out of rage Oedipus killed this person at the three way-crossroads not knowing the man was his real father Lauis. Now as the King of Thebes he must pay for his mistake of killing his father who was the pervious ruler of the Thebes. The three-way crossroads was used to represent Oedipus choices because had two choices density and free will. The path of fate is where he kills a man at the crossroad and the path of free will is not to kill the man at the crossroad. The first choice of the path is density which starts of the prophecy and the other path shows free-will to stop the predicted faith. With the cross road the author presents the theme of freedom explain that we do have a choice in our actions. Oedipus could have controlled his anger and not kill the man at the crossroad going in his own direction. However, Oedipus lets his