5/01/2011
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Choose a topic for argument as if you were going to write a research paper on Chopin’s “The Storm.” Name that topic and then provide a draft thesis statement that clearly identifies whether this hypothetical paper’s focus is on character, theme, setting, social/cultural issues or history, or interpretation. You may refer to Stanford’s suggestions as guides; however DO NOT just copy them!
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Topic: Topics related to the setting of a literary work
ReplyDeletePreliminary Question: Why is the prospect of the storm have such control over the story?
Thesis: The fact that the story takes place while a storm is going on shows that the story chooses to focus on the events before, during, and after the storm has occurred.
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ReplyDeleteThe relationship of the title to the actual relationship of the characters.
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Kate Chopin's “The Storm" exhibits a story focused on two main characters, Calixta and Alcee. Their brief love affair is referred to the title, where the word “storm” symbolizes the strong sexual passion and lack of control between them.
Topic: The storm symbolizing problems within personal relationships.
ReplyDeleteThesis: In the story "The Storm" Kate Chopin introduces two main characters Calixta and Alcee who experience passion that is lost within there personal relationships. The "storm" represents the destruction of each other personal relationship by having an affair.
Topic: The Storm the title of the story is a metaphor its states the tough situation in a relationship between the two genders.
ReplyDeleteThesis: Kate Chopin's “The Storm" focused on two main characters, Calixta and Alcee and their brief love affair.The storms metaphorically represents sexual repression and desire for the female's freedom.
Topic: The title of Kate Chopin's story "The Storm expresses conflicts in a relationship which represent other meanings that a storm symbolizes.
ReplyDeleteThesis: The word storm means a disturbance of the normal condition. Having that said in Kate Chopin's "The Storm" a relationship between two people arise while a storm is taking place which is seen as a disturbing situation that the couple is going through.
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ReplyDeleteTopic: The titles of Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm”, symbolizes the major conflict of the story.
ReplyDeleteThesis: There are two main characters, Calixta and her former lover Alcee Laballiere having affair or adultery while, Calixta’s husband and son waiting at the local store because of the storm. By doing this Chopin symbolizes the “Storm” as adultery or affair which is also demonstrates the major conflict.
Topic: The use of literary elements like imagery and metaphor to describe the relationship between storm and the character’s emotion.
ReplyDeleteThesis: The description of the level of the storm presented in the story, "The storm" by Kate Chopin, represents rise in Calixta’s suppressed passion for the character Alcee, with whom she had an affair long before her marriage.
Topic: Topics related to interpretation.
ReplyDeletePreliminary Question: In Chopin’s “The Storm”, is the use of the storm in the story just a metaphor for the sexual desires of Calixta and Alcée?
Thesis: Chopin’s “The Storm” can be connected to the sexual desires shared by Calixta and Alcée. This is made evident as the storm progress so does the intensity of the two character’s desire for each other.
Topic: In Chopin's "The Storm", the storm is a metaphor that symbolizes a confrontation between the two characters Calixta and Alcee.
ReplyDelete"The Storm is a story of a brief passionate love affair that goes on between two former lovers during a serve storm while their spouses are away.
Topic: The story’s title “Storm” by Kate Chopin symbolizes more than a weather storm; it represents a conflict that occurs between two main protagonists.
ReplyDeleteThesis: In the short story “Storm” a father and son are trapped in a storm, on the other hand the mother reunites with her former lover, who is also married.
Topic: Kate Chopin titles her short story “The Storm” as a metaphor for the intimate relations between the two main characters.
ReplyDeleteThesis: In her short story “The Storm”, Kate Chopin describes an adulterous encounter between two married ex-lovers that gives them the passion that has been missing from their marriages. The Storm symbolizes the betrayal of their spouses and intensity of their relations.
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ReplyDeleteTopic: The symbolism of "The Storm" in Calixta's life.
ReplyDeleteThesis: Usually when a "storm" is mentioned in terms of relationships, a horrible event is occurring. This proves to be true in "The Storm" by Kate Chopin. By Calixta having an affair with Alcée, she is only creating a storm within herself and her marriage with Bobinot.
Topic: Kate Chopin's "The Storm" is used as a metaphor to depict the two main characters, it's not just "The Storm" it's symbolizes the conflicts we see.
ReplyDeleteThesis: A woman’s view of how repressive and restrict marriage can be for a woman, both spiritually and sexually. The concept of a women as overcome being ready to erupt into a hurricane as strong as "The Storm." It represents rise in Calixta’s suppressed passion for the character Alcee, with whom she had an affair long before her marriage.
Topic: the thunder which symbolizes the tension between two people.
ReplyDeleteThesis: the short story "the storm" by Kate Chopin two people still have feelings about each other, which can create alot of tension.
Topic: Kate Chopin uses literary elements such as setting, imagery, and symbolism to show the connection between the two former lovers.
ReplyDeleteThesis: The characters in "The Storm" are brought together by a storm which is used to show how repressed feelings can be brought out within the intensity of a situation.
Topic: The storm symbolizes the relationship betweenn the boy and the girl.
ReplyDeleteThesis: " The Storm" by kate Choplin talks of Calixta and Alcée talks of them which are both ex lovers but are married now and find whats missing with their marriages in their relation with each other.
Topic:The symbol behind "The Storm"
ReplyDelete"The Storm" by Kate Chopin is a representation of deep and strong emotions that is surfaced by the characters Calixta and Alcee. The title of this short story gives the passage an ironic twist because a storm would be thought of a cold, mass destruction but these characters found it as a deep sensation.
Topic: Kate Chopin's title " The Storm" and the relation it has with the plot of the short story.
ReplyDeleteThesis: Kate Chopin chose the title " The Storm" has a significant meaning referred to the plot, which is adultery. The darkness of a storm symbolizes the morally unfaithfulness of adultery that is taken upon both characters in the story.
Topic: The effect of the storm on the characters and how the storm serves as an antoganist progressing the story along.
ReplyDeleteThesis: In Kate Chopin’s “The Storm,” the character’s actions and emotions are dramatically influenced by the appearance of the storm. The storm invokes emotions and provides a “curtain,” behind which those emotions are acted upon.
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ReplyDeleteTopic: The significance of the different interrelationships in the five acts to the understanding of the theme of "The Storm" by Kate Chopin.
ReplyDeleteThesis: The five acts of the story all have different imagery, tone, and setting that lead to an enhanced comprehension of the story and Chopin's message. the characters in all five acts are grouped as: 1. the boy and the father,2. the mother and Alcee, 3. The mother, father, and the boy, 4. Alcee, writing a letter to his wife, 5. Clarisse, Alcee's wife. These changing sets of characters have different interactions with each other but they do not seem to change in any noticeable way despite the adultery committed by both Alcee and Calixta, the mother mentioned previously.
topic: How the “the storm” reflects the characters’ actions and personalities.
ReplyDeleteThesis: The characters in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” change with the oncoming storm, evident by the relatively mundane life that Calixta has being interrupted by Alcee’s sudden, unexpected appearance and the lover’s brief intimate encounter. Then, she goes back to being a caring, responsible mother and wife when the storm ends.