Désirée’s Baby: Criticism of the One-Drop Rule

Since the beginning of slavery, the application of cross-shaped rules has not yet been written in the law, but it has become a tradition of American ethnic classification. In her short story "Désiré 's Baby", Kate Chopin explains this. Because individuals with white flesh color are considered socially blacks in the presence of African descendants. Chopin put ecstasy, the leading character of the story, at the intersection of the two races eloquently and emphasized the defects and deficiencies of a single drop of law.

At the beginning of the story there was an introduction to the baby of Désirée, which urged him to return to the past, the reader introduced Désirée himself as a baby and became the center of her origins. With the exception of unraveling the mystery of her parents and children and casting shadows on her ancestors, Désirée really has no reason to base this story. The "shadow" theme introduces the most important pattern in the story. Désirée not only exists in the "shadow" of a huge stone pillar, but in 18 years she fell asleep in the same shadow as if she had never moved. Please see who fell in love with her, "It seems that it hit a pistol."

Kate Chopin 's 1893 short story "Baby' s Father of Désirée" is a story of a abandoned baby raised by a wealthy French Creole family. Baby (Désirée) grew up and married a famous rich man. When their babies are born, children become obviously black within a few months. Her husband Armand took her and her children away. The last scene shows that Armand knows that he is black. Mark Twain's 1894 novel "The tragedy of Pudding Head Wilson" is the harsh irony of passing a ball to the south. The slave, Roxy, is a black man in 16 people and in order to avoid being sold in the river she watched her baby (1/32 for black) and the white baby she takes care of I decided to change. Tom, her young child who passed through the white, was promoted to a spoiled nobility, but when his real identity was called a slave child, he was born slave and he was born in a river It was sold to.

Kate Chopin's Baby of Désiré themes about identity, racial discrimination, gender, shame. From her Bayou fork series, the story is spoken by an unknown narrator of the third person, and after reading the story for the first time, the reader understands how important the title of the story is. By linking the baby to Désiré rather than Armand, Chopin reflected Armand's attitude towards the baby well. From the eyes of Arman, the baby is responsible for Désirée and he is not responsible, as children's ethnicity is mixed. As far as Armand is concerned, he does not want to join the Désiré or the baby, as a child's mixed race comes from Désiré, not from him. But when the reader comes to the end of the story, Armand's decision is ironic.