Assignments
Discussion 14
While there is the main plot of the conflict between Nora and Helmer, there are two other subplots in A Doll House. What are they, and how do the help us understand the main plot? Be specific in details. What is the theme of A Doll House? How is this theme relevant in todays society? Provide at least two examples from the play that support your answers.
Discussion 15
Try to come up with at least three different topics you could use for your final research paper, Essay 4. (Examples: gender inequality, legal rights, friendship.) What process will you use to come up with your subject and your stance on it for your final essay? Will you survey research to find something that interests you about the play? Or will you come up with your topic and then find research to support it?
Essay Four
While essay four is not due until Week 8, you need to start working on it now.
Choose a common theme such as marriage, death, conflict, male/female relationships, reality vs. i
llusion, freedom/oppression, or justice, and use that theme to analyze the topic A Doll House. Locate at least three academically valid sources to support the main points in your essay. This essay must be formatted using MLA Style. The expected length is approximately five pages. See Essay 4 Guidelines and Rubric.
Preview of the answer..
Subplots add information and enlighten the audience about the primary plot. As such, Henrik Ibsens play has been analyzed as using the methods of plot construction in the development of the characters that ties them to the main theme. In that case, subplots are involved where the plot begins at the climax. As a result, the subplots lead to the present action of the drama where Krogstad converses with Nora and proceeds with the blackmail. Torvlad falls ill and this makes Nora go to Krogstad for money. In this regard, it could be said that the two main subplots are Torvald falling sick and the conversation between Nora and Krogstad
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