Classical and Contemporary Prose
Name : Muhammad Husain Nur Faiz Assyifa
NIM : 2109010001
The Story of an Hour
By : Kate Chopin
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Method of Characterization |
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Indirect Characterization |
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Appearance |
Louise as "young with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength." |
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Actions |
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Words and Thought |
She says, "Free! Body and soul, free!" She thinks that she now wants her life to last a long time as opposed to her feeling that "life might be long" before the news of her husband's demise. |
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Relationship with other |
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Direct Characterization |
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What the writer says |
Louise Mallard, has a heart condition. Louise is also directly characterized when she is described as suffering from "physical exhaustion" after hearing the news that her husband had been accidentally killed in a "railroad disaster."
Louise Mallard responds to a moment of trouble, her husband's death, by crying immediately, without any hint of denial. Louise “wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms”. |
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