Comparison of Kate Chopins Story of an Hour and William Faulkners A R

Historically, women gift been treated as second class citizens. The Napoleonic Code stated that women were controlled by their husbands and cannot freely do their own willing without the authority of their husband. This paper shows how this is evident in the Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. In both stories, the use of literary elements such as foreshadowing, symbolism, and significant meaning of the titles are essential in bringing the reader to an unexpected and ironic conclusion. The background of both authors, which was from the South, we can conclude how they could depict the situations that they faced such as political and social presumptions problems especially for women at that time. The story explains how Chopin wrote how women were to be seen but not heard. The wife cannot plead in her own name, without the authority of her husband, even though she should be a public trader, or noncommunicant, or separate in property. (Kreis 1) This is one of the Code Napoleon that shows women have no right and position at that time. However aft(prenominal) World War II, most of the men were going to war and left the women, who make them finally, could excite their freedom to do anything or their own because they have to do it to survive.Chopins stories seem very modern in different ways even though it was scripted about two hundred years ago. Chopin says that it ..does not always find that marriage necessarily requires that a wife be dominated by their husband,..(Oklopcic 19) and she was act to show that women can get along just fine without having man interfere. The story represents a disdain for the way women are treated in more or less relationships and in society as well. Her concern w... ...usual life such as Emily who turned into a murderer, killing her own boyfriend and Louise Mallard dead after living her real life for one hour, feels her feeling free from repression during her husband death and finally died of heart disease when she knew that her husband is alive.Works CitedChopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour. hereditary pattern of American Literature. Ed. James E. Miller. Vol. 2. Austin Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1991. 487. Print.Faulkner, William. A Rose For Emily. An Introduction to Fiction. 10th ed. Eds X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New Yorkk Pearson Longman, 2007. 29-34.Kreis, S. (2001). The History Guide. Lectures on Modern European quick History The Code Napoleon. 15 July, 2010, http//www.historyguide.org/intellect/code_nap.htmlOklopcic, Biljana. Faulkner and the Native Keystone Reading (Beyond) the American South