Repressions Of Women In The Chrysanthemums And The Story Of An Hour

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We live in the 21st century and have witnessed great advancements in fields of technology, medical science, electronics and what not. We live in the era of equal rights whether it be the right to vote, the right to work or women’s right to get paid the same amount of money as that of men. The way society treats women has changed vastly. But this just did not happen all by itself. Men have seen women as mere objects of possession since the beginning of time. Even today in many cultures we can witness women repression at so many levels with the government displaying indifferent stance to it. To some extent all kinds of repression are connected. As we all know about the struggles which women had to put up with to be able to have the same rights as that of men, which clearly indicates that there is something seriously wrong with societal norms and so called moral values.
In the three stories “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinback and “The Story Of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, the women protagonists ‘Miss Emily Grierson’, ‘Elisa Allen” and ‘M...

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