Equality for All
Antigone challenges Creon
In Antigone, Antigone the protagonist, challenges Creon who is the major authority figure in the play (other than the gods that is). She follows her own morale authority, instead of the Creon's decree to leave him unburied. She follows the specific role of the woman at that time, but also violates it by disregarding his rules and burying her brother.
Antigone
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
Antigone
“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
Antigone
“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”
Liberation from nothing
In the Yellow Wallpaper, the protagonist is stuck in a lifestyle that would make all go insane. She liberates herself by creating her own world unimpeded by outside influences
The Yellow Wallpaper
"My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing. "
The Yellow Wallpaper
"Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over."
The Yellow Wallpaper
"And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern--it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads."
Bottled up
In the story of an hour, the protagonist keeps her feelings bottled up towards her spouse, and was elated when she heard the news that he had died. One of the things that is notable about that era, is that divorce was unheard of, and woman here considered 2nd class woman.
The Story of an Hour
When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!"
The Story of an Hour
Into this [armchair] she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
The Story of an Hour
When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.
Bibliographies
The Story of an Hour
The Yellow Wallpaper
Antigone
Antigone
Sohocles
Antigone
F.Storr
Cambridge Massachusets
Harvard University Press
1912
Web
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
Gutenberg
5 Nov. 2012
Web
2 Feb.2015
The Story of an Hour
Chopin Kate
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin, Complete Novels and Stories
Sandra Gilbert
New York: Library of America 2002
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Caleb Abshire