Literature is ever said to be the reverberation of life. It reflects the clip. the mind’s province. and author’s life. Whenever one looks into any literature piece. they do non merely read what is on the text but besides seek to understand the context that affairs. These contexts include the life of the writer. the epoch it was written. the societal status during the clip it was set. and others. There are many ways in which a literary piece can be read and interpreted. The act of construing a literary text is called literary unfavorable judgment.

As said by Lamb ( 2003 ) . literary unfavorable judgment is an effort to measure and grok the originative authorship. the literature of an writer. In this paper. the research worker uses a type of literary unfavorable judgment to establish the significance of the text. The research worker uses biographical attack to literary unfavorable judgment. Eagleton ( 1996 ) describes this attack as a scheme of associating the author’s life and ideas to his/her plants. This allows the reader to understand elements employed in the work. plus to associate plants to auctorial significance and readers.

MHS Composition Guide states that there are cardinal biographical inquiries needed to reflect on in taking this attack. These inquiries are: • What biographical facts has the writer used in the text? • What biographical facts has the writer changed? • What penetrations do we get about the author’s life by reading the text? • How make these facts and penetrations addition ( or decrease ) our apprehension of the text? These inquiries wil used in the development of the organic structure of this paper. In this paper. the research worker besides attempts to give appraisal in life to her short narrative. and to the chief character of the short narrative “The Story of an Hour” .

Horward ( 2005 ) states that Katherine O’Flaherty. besides known as Kate Chopin. was one of the most celebrated female authors of her clip. Her cosmopolitan subjects are what made her extraordinary. She wrote several short narratives including “The Story of an Hour” . “Euphrase” . “Mrs. Mobry’s Reason” . “A Black Affair” and many others. Kate Chopin was raised into a place of adult females in St. Louis. This had been a really large influence to her Hagiographas. chiefly on her positions about feminism – positions about adult females. Chopin was subsequently widowed at 32. and there she started composing for herself and for her six kids.

Chopin was an extended reader that is why she was able to compose narratives of herself into originative 1s. In the early 1970’s. it was the Resurrection of women’s rights motions. and Kate Chopin was one of those subscribers to the happening. She contributed a batch with her Hagiographas about adult females. daytime play. the feminine mystique. women’s release. Mars vs. Venus. self-help and unfastened matrimonies. Decidedly. Kate Chopin’s early experiences had a great influence on her Hagiographas. One of her celebrated short narratives is “The Story of an Hour” and it is wholly celebrated non merely in American Literature – but besides in the universe.

While reading the short narrative. the reader finds connexion between the life of the writer and the life of the chief character of the short narrative. These connexions are the similarities that the reader had taken into consideration: Chopin and Her Father’s Loss One of the chief events in the narrative is a loss of person really of import. more peculiarly. Mrs. Mallard’s husband’s loss. Josephine. Mrs. Mallard’s sister. had brought the sad message that there was a railway catastrophe and of those listed as ‘killed’ was Brently Mallard. who was Mrs. Mallard’s hubby.

In Kate’s life. she had lost person excessively. in a railway accident in 1855 to a train accident. A Widow Mrs. Mallard is sooner or later. assumed to be a widow. but readers will shortly happen out that Mr. Mallard is alive. In Kate’s life. his male parent had widowed her female parent. Both experienced holding lost person really particular and every bit good as being widowed but decidedly. their responses to the loss may wholly be different. In the terminal. before she would hold learned about Brently’s return from the accident. Louise died of bosom disease – of joy that kills. This suggests that she had a monstrous joy. because it killed and consumed her to decease.

Possibly. Chopin would merely allow Louise decease alternatively of seeing Brently once more. wherein she will be populating like a prison once more. Freedom for Women In “The Story of An Hour” . Chopin has made no suggestion to the readers that Mrs. Mallard was sorry for her husband’s loss. Alternatively. she has uttered ‘over under her breath’ : “free. free. and free! ” . which suggests how happy Mrs. Mallard is to hold lost her hubby. because she has now freedom of herself. The joy she senses in possessing her freedom is something which consumes her. In Kate’s life. she was used to compose about revival of women’s rights.

She experience a period when there was this declined and parturiency of women’s public demands like instruction. the ballot. rights to her ain belongings and her ain kids. Those events drove her to compose this sort of feminist text alternatively of taking other cosmopolitan subjects. Briefly. the rubric of this novel. “The Story of an Hour” is a image of the feelings provoked by the chief character. Louise Mallard. In connexion to this. it can be confirmed that this novel is a mention to Kate Chopin’s life since most of the events in Louise’s life are similar. or at least made a great influence to that of the narrative. “The Story of an Hour” .

The biographical attack made by the research worker accomplishes its intent because an understanding able of the issues behind the book went through by following the history and life of Kate Chopin. Literature can convey us to the universe of the writer. Therefore. this research established that literature reflects the clip. province of head. and the life of the writer through understanding the connexion between Kate Chopin and Mrs. Mallard in the short narrative. “The Story of an Hour. ” Mentions:

Original Text: Mentions Chopin. K. ( 1976 ) . The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin. New York: Signet Classic. Eagleton. T. ( 1996 ) . Biographic Approach. An debut to Literary Theories ( 2 ed. ) University of Minnesota Press. Horward. A. ( 2005 ) . A Woman Ahead of Her Time. Retrieved 28 April 2010 from: hypertext transfer protocol: //www. angelfire. com/nv/English243/Chopin. hypertext markup language Lamb. A. ( 2003 ) . The subject: literary unfavorable judgment. Retrieved 24 April 2010 from: & lt ; hypertext transfer protocol: //42explore. com/litcrit. htm & gt ;