MRS. MALLARD’S “BRIEF MOMENT OF ILLUMINATION”Mrs. Mallard's "Brief Moment of Illumination" is a very deep and touching story of a lady who is forced to marry a man she did not really know and deeply love with all her heart. heart, as if bound to misfortune for life. ! She is now released. The narrator says she felt a kind of freedom she couldn't describe, but she didn't know how to deal with it. In this essay, subjects such as the freedom she felt, the little love she had for her husband, the “monstrous joy” she felt will be discussed. Topics such as women's issues and their feelings towards life and death are also included in this essay. These questions are all part of Ms. Mallard's "brief moment of enlightenment." “The Story of an Hour” was written and published in 1894. This story was written at a time when many questions were arising about the identity of the dominant sex. and why. This story was written to share with the world how men treated women during that time and how men really felt about women. Women were forced to be with men and were inevitably unhappy. The biggest issue was the “women’s question.” What role did women fill in society and that female species were the least dominant species. Men were the dominant species, women were forced to do things they didn't want to do and were forced to be with men they didn't really like or care about. In "Story of an Hour", Mrs. Mallard is also forced to be with someone she doesn't really know. She never truly loved him or cared for him like she was supposed to. Mrs. Mallard was treated the same as all women of that era, abused and abused in many ways if they didn't do what was in the middle of a paper...but that's not the case. . The entire hour is devoted to her inner conflict over her freedom and being "savagely abandoned" by her husband and the feeling of freedom she cannot handle. This concludes the essay on Mrs. Mallard's "brief moment of enlightenment." This essay has discussed everything that was mentioned in the introductory paragraph. The paragraph very well illustrates the narrator's description of Mrs. Mallard's "brief moment of enlightenment." This shows the inner conflict she is fighting in her mind and thoughts about the freedom she has been given and that she is bound to it and she does not know how to deal with it.Bibliography1. Starfield, Jane, 2008, Anthology of Poetry and Short Stories (A Reader for 2008)2. Ferguson, I, 1997, Cross-Currents: An Anthology of Short Stories. Hatfield: Acacia Books3. www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/hour/