Discuss the family power struggle in A Doll House and explain how it's presentation works to highlight the play's main themes. ______________________________________________________________________ Henrick Ibsen's, A Doll House, reflects upon 19th century Norway - the society in which it was written. ... He uses actions, speech and other literary techniques to use the plays characters to show and represent these particular themes. ... Divorce is also a key issue that is reflected upon in each of the previous themes. ... The obvious power struggle between Nora and Torvald ...

• Word Count: 627
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

These two literatures do not share a common theme. In "My Old Man" the theme of the story is change. ... In "The Three Day Blow" the theme is making a mistake. ... I have chosen a literary criticism on "My Old Man" by Phillip Sipiora. ... He explains that the theme and tone are similar. ...

• Word Count: 726
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Kate Chopin uses irony in several different ways, and these methods can be seen as literary links between her stories, "Desiree's Baby" and "The Story of an Hour." because each gives an emotional shock to the reader, which also helps link the theme of women facing depression through appearance versus reality. ...

• Word Count: 502
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The plays twists and turns around this theme, its characters lying in order to be "Ernest," and then discovering that because of a number of remarkable circumstances they had not in fact been lying at all. ... Yet even as he played with his theme for laughs, Wilde saw earnestness as being a key ideal in Victorian culture. ... It pokes fun at the aristocracy, the literary world, marriage, English manners and customs, women, men, love, religion and all sorts of other staples in modern society. ... It has always been a huge commercial success, in large part because both its humor and its themes a...

• Word Count: 946
• Approx Pages: 4

Romance, beyond its accepted, contemporary usage is formally defined by the Webster's Dictionary as " a medieval literary form, initially old French or Provencal, dealing with deeds of chivalry or with historical or mythological events seen in the perspective or a medieval court." ... The theme of the Grail Romance is that of the land being laid waste, a "wasteland," where the surface does not represent the actuality of what it is supposed to be representing. ...

• Word Count: 924
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Although there is more symbolic imagery in Trifles and more symbolic action in Antigone, both plays use symbolism to emphasize the theme of women struggling against the conventions of their times. ... A literary metaphor of the bird's song as the voice of the soul, the women acknowledge that John Wright not only killed Minnie's canary, but her very spirit. ... However the theme of women struggling against an oppressive society is still apparent through symbolism. ...

• Word Count: 883
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Gilman uses the literary device of character to convey the lack of communication between the narrator and her husband/society. ... A theme which is highlighted through this story is communication, or in this case, a lack of it. ...

• Word Count: 1134
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School