Compare and Contrast of Literature Table

A Doll's House

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Genre: realistic drama

Techniques: Irony, metaphor and discussion

Theme: One of the themes of this story is Nora's own definition of freedom. It seems to have evolved over the course of the play. In Act I, Nora thought she would be totally “free” once her debt was repaid because all of her time would be devoted to her family and her motherly duties. After Krogstad blackmails her, she reconsiders her understanding of freedom and begins to question if she ever was truly happy in Torvald's home. The outcome of the heated discussion between Nora and Torvald, Nora finally realizes that she, through this entire marriage, had just been all for show. Torvald has done the minimum to keep her happy enough to stay, using his money and his pretend love for her. She was blinded by this imaginary love for eight years throughout their marriage and when Nora finally realizes that this marriage was never based off of love, but actually being just a “plaything” for her husband, she decides to walk away from it all. The idea of this is what makes Nora's very final departure from the family and the story so significant. If Nora had stayed, we wouldn't have felt like she had accomplished anything. She would've just continued being a plaything, passed down from her father to Torvald and we wouldn't feel the closure we felt from Nora's exit Culture: This Drama is portraying the bourgeois women of 1880s. I this time period, women were powerless and society was dominated by the patriarchal laws. Devices: Symbolism, Diction Other: please fix it on a chart

Love in place

Author: Nikki Giovanni

Genre: Children Poetry

Technique: conversation, metaphors

Theme: the central theme of this poem is to describe the meaning and effects of ...