<span> "Chopin both begins and ends with a statement about Louise Mallard's heart trouble, which turns out to have both a physical and a mental component. In the first paragraph of "The Story of an Hour," Chopin uses the term "heart trouble" primarily in a medical sense, but over the course of the story, Mrs. Mallard's presumed frailty seems to be largely a result of psychological repression rather than truly physiological factors. The story concludes by attributing Mrs. Mallard's death to heart disease, where heart disease is "the joy that kills." This last phrase is purposefully ironic, as Louise must have felt both joy and extreme disappointment at Brently's return, regaining her husband and all of the loss of freedom her marriage entails. The line establishes that Louise's heart condition is more of a metaphor for her emotional state than a medical reality."</span>
Music from the Romantic period or era (1850-1900) is characterized
by personal, emotional and expressive style and composition. The melodies and
lyrics of music from this period evoke more emotion than other styles of music.
Compositions from the Romantic era of music revolved around themes of: nature,
the supernatural, magic, dreams experiences of love or negative feelings and so on.
