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Write a college-level essay that analyzes and evaluates “The Story of an Hour” (in the textbook or under Modules), OR “The Necklace” (located under Modules.)
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1. For “The Story of an Hour,” how and in what ways does Kate Chopin teach the reader about equal rights and / or about marriage in the 19th century?

2. For “The Necklace,” how and in what ways does Guy de Maupassant teach the reader about truth OR money and greed in the 19th century?

 

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“The Story of an Hour”

“The Tory of an Hour” is a short story by Kate Chopin that details the emotional journey of Louise Mallard after she learns that her husband has died. Chopin expresses a hidden resentment toward men and the way the world looks down upon women. It is obvious when Mrs. Mallard found out about her husband`s death then rejoiced that she was free. Chopin is showing us a social situation of the times with the woman as prisoner of her husband. It is common knowledge that marriages are not always about mutual love between two people and during the time that Chopin was writing, this was more often the case. Marriage was more about monetary comfort, social status and acceptance as it was about possible love.

n 1863, Tchaikovsky abandoned his civil service career and began studying music full-time at the St. Petersburg ́s Conservatory, He studied harmony with Zaremba, while Anton Rubinstein, director and founder of the Conservatory, taught him instrumentation and composition. He graduated from the Conservatory in December 1865.
At that time he met Franz Liszt, a 19th-century Hungarian composer and Hector Berlioz, a French Romantic composer who visited Russia with concert tours. During that period Tchaikovsky wrote his first ballet \’The Swan Lake\’, opera \’Eugene Onegin\’, four Symphonies, and the brilliant Piano Concerto No1.
Nikolay Zaremba
In 1866, Tchaikovsky took a job as a harmony teacher for the Moscow Conservatory with Rubenstein\’s recommendation. He was professor of theory and harmony at the Moscow Conservatory until 1878. Little of his music so far had pleased the conservative musical establishment or the more nationalist group, but his First Symphony had a good public reception.
Tchaikovsky’s musical talent impressed Rubinstein. He and Zaremba later clashed with the young composer over his First Symphony, written after his graduation, when he submitted it to them for their perusal. The symphony was given its first complete performance in Moscow in February 1868, where it was well received.
Tchaikovsky’s formal, Western-oriented training set him apart from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the influential group of young Russian composers known as The Five, with whom Tchaikovsky\’s professional relationship was mixed.
Adult Life
In 1868, he had a brief flirtation with soprano Désirée Artôt , a Belgian soprano who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany.
In 1868 she visited Russia with a touring Italian. Désirée Artôt met Tchaikovsky briefly at a p

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