The Light Of Darkness

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Chopin’s “The Storm” leads us to believe that a sexually unfulfilled housewife or husband will eventually find sexual gratification somewhere else. That if people are not honest with their true feelings then somehow, somewhere their hidden intentions will become inevitable. Chopin reinforces this by Calixta and Alcèe sudden and unintended passionate affair. Unfortunately, affairs are like things done in the dark of night, eventually the light of the day will shine. In Chopin’s story she portrayed the affair of Calixta and Alcèe as being beneficial to their respective marriages, but no matter how understanding a person can be, the confession or the knowledge of an affair, the betrayal of such sacred trust, is usually devastating to a marriage.
Sex is a very natural and important part of people’s lives, yet we are conditioned from small children to not let other people know how we really feel about our sex drives. This most especially applies to women from Chopin’s time era. Take for instance, that an unattached man can have sex with different women and it is socially acceptable, yet if an unattached woman has sex with several different men, she is considered a slut. That even in our more modern time era women are not suppose to have “sexual urges”. So we can only imagine want it was like for women in the 1800’s by author’s like Chopin. Chopin gives us the impression that Calixta and Bobinôt marriage is not a passionate one by her own description of Calixta and Bobinôt bedroom that had their four year old son’s bed next to Calixta’s side of the bed. We can assume that Calixta was a very passionate woman from several passages in the story and that she felt that she had to repress or deny her sexual urges, just by the placement of their son’s bed. It leads the reader to the idea that sex had to be done late in the evening and very quietly and passionless which probably was more than likely not very pleas...