英语论文 ：A Psychological Analysis of the Story of an[1]

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【Abstract】Kate Chopin is a famous feminist writer. A strong sense of feminine consciousness is embodied in her works. Her successful adoption of the psychological approach, specifically the stream of consciousness, adds grandeur to splendor of her literary creation. The successful employment of psychological approach in The Story of an Hour not only has achieved dramatic effects and intensified the themes but also has exposed the women’s anaclitic situation.

【Key wordst】The Story of an Hour; Psychological Analysis; Feminist Consciousness.

Kate Chopin was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1851. She was raised by a strict Catholic mother and attended the Academy of Sacred Heart, where she was expected to learn all the social graces. Later she moved to New Orleans and there she married to Oscar Chopin. But it was after the death of her husband that she started her literary career. She has written many short stories and published two collections, Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie, in succession and some famous novels such as Awakening, which is now regarded as one of the feminist masterpieces. However, when it was first published, attacks threw upon her and stunned her so much that she kept silent and wrote little else throughout the rest of her life because it has boldly touched upon and exposed some sensitive social problems. In her novels, we will find that she often repeated the same theme and related marriage to the cage of bars.

If we throw our eyes onto her Emancipation: the Life Fable, The Story of an Hour and Awakening, we will be assured of this. She has given us so much food to consider the significance of life and marriage and the embarrassing situation in which women lived that she is later labeled by the radical feminists in 1970s as one of the woman writers with a strong feminine consciousness, although surprisingly, she herself resolutely denied it. Actually it is understandable that she is taken as a progressive woman writer of feminine c英语论文