“The story of an hour”
The characters :
1) Mrs. Mallard (Louise): The most important character in the story and this story describes an hour in her life.
2) Josephine: She is Mrs. Mallard’s sister.
3) Richards: He is Mr. Mallard’s Friend
4) Mr. Mallard: He is Louise’s husband. He came home at the end and he had been far from the scene of accident, and didn’t even know there had been one.
* Comment on the following excerptقطعة أدبية مقتبسة : *:
“Free! Body and soul free!” she kept whispering. She was drinking the elixir of life through the open window. Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of victory. Someone was opening the front door with a latchkey .It was a Brently Mallard who entered. He had been far from the scene of accident, and didn’t even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine’s piercing cry; and Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. But Richards was too late. When the doctors came they said she had died of a heart disease . . . of a joy that kills.
The comment :
Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a good attempt to reveal the absurdity of fate. It shows that fate is ironic and absurd. People are puppets in the hands of fate. Man’s life on earth is nothing; his fate can destroy him at no time.
بصراحة كلمة "القدر" غير محبذة عند الدكتور أحمد العيسى لهيك حاول ما تستخدم هالكلمة لأنو الدكتور حلف بالله انو كل واحد بيذكر كلمة القدر رح يرسب
Louise Mallard soon passes the storm of her grief, having heard of her husband’s death. She sits in front of the window on her comfortable chair thinking deeply about her future life. She wants to have a free life and to live for herself only. She keeps whispering “Free! Body and soul free! ” . She doesn’t know that fate is going to destroy her. The irony of fate appears at the end when her husband comes back home. She dies as she sees him. She gets her freedom by her death ; death represents women’s freedom.
This is a kind of irony that doctors think that she died of joy. Moreover, the story shows that marriage is a kind of imprisonment to women. It devours the freedom of women.
THE END
