Chopin Essays

Kate Chopin’s The Story of An Hour is an intriguing work that leaves the reader wondering whether Louis Mallard’s awakening was spiritual or physical. Many critics like to pick one side of the argument and stick to it, however the reader must realize that it is a combination of the …

The essay of “The Storm”, written by Kate Chopin, illustrates a story of one woman and one man drawn to each other by lust. Situated together by a storm, Calixta, the woman in this essay and “very married woman” has no choice but to let in an old friend and …

The Well-tempered Clavier, Book I is one of the two collections of preludes and fugues completed by J.S. Bach in 1722. Each collection consists of a prelude and a fugue for each of the 12 semitones in both major and minor keys. The Well-tempered Clavier was published for “the benefit …