Saturday, November 12, 2011

Has anyone read the storm by Kate Chopin? Can someone check out my paper?

Kate Chopin’s, The Storm, the character of Calixta is not able to fulfill society's standards of righteousness, despite her perceived purity by her lover Alcee. When Alcee claims, "If she was not an immaculate dove in those days, she was still inviolate" (p. 34), meaning that just because a woman is not celibate, it doesn’t mean she is not pure of heart. In the short story, Kate uses symbolism to portray the feelings of the relationships, which are as uncertain as that of this raging storm. Like a storm, Calixta began as quiet, calm and unthreatening to man. But as her pion began to come out, a force driven by nature, as absurd at controlling her own desires as a storm is at controlling the damage it leaves in its path. In any case, it was Calixta's marriage which had removed her of her celibacy status. Of course the morality issue lies not in whether Calixta is a virgin, but whether she is faithful to her husband.

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