Nowadays, freedom is a fundamental right for each man and woman, but it is not a perfect concept. When one’s freedom is endangered, he can do unimaginable things, especially when love is at stake or can react weirdly when he acquires it. It’s exactly what Kate Chopin, a female American author during the 19th century, did when she treated about women’s conditions in the short-story Story of an Hour in 1894, where a woman falsely learns about his husband’s death. Almost 60 years later, Roald Dahl wrote Lamb To The Slaughter, set in Great Britain, where a woman kills her husband and hide the evidences cleverly. These two short stories are not only comparative on the two female protagonists and the imagery used, but also on the main themes which are freedom and betrayal.

Freedom is one of the major theme in The Story of An Hour. Indeed, once she learned her husband’s death, and after she was crying alone in her room, she feels slowly happier: yes she is sad that her husband died but still, she starts to feel something that was never felt before, a feeling that embraces her which is the emotion of being free: “ ‘Free, free, free!’ 
and “Free! Body and soul free!” she kept whispering’ “. Married, she was the innocent, loving and inferior to her husband, but now that was a widow, well that I what she thought, she felt that the era of her freedom was beginning :“There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers […]“. Ultimately, freedom is actually what killed her because she tasted it for an hour and thought she was going to live as a free widow for the rest of her life, listening to her will and only hers and not bending to anyone but herself just like a slave would feel with his chains broken and the chance of starting his life all over again. She didn’t know that her husband was