The Awakening Vs. A Doll's House
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Just because a novel is considered a classic doesn't mean the
messages it conveys to its readers are correct. Even though both The
Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen are great
literary works, some of the ideas embodied in them aren't appropriate.
Both works suggest that i ....
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.... portrayed in these works aren't
ideas readers should assume to be true or good. The first of these is the
theory that husbands will most likely treat their wives as inferiors after
they are married. In A Doll's House, Torvald is blatantly condescending to
Nora. He calls her his ³little squirrel² or ³little skylark² and requires
her to ³do tricks² to please him. In addition, he treats her like a child,
a ³feather head² who can't understand anything important. In The Awakening,
Leo ....
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