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A 7 page paper which examines the contribution to modern dramatic form made by Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: JR7_RAibshw.rtf
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around the latter part of the 19th century. They are stories that diverged from the literature of the day, offering divergent social perspectives that illustrate how modern dramatic form was
changing in Europe and the United States. The two realms often influenced one another and essentially formed the direction that literature would take as it moved into modernism. The following
paper examines how the two plays contributed to modern dramatic form, and also how these two plays seem to have diverged from the Aristotelian tradition that was outlined in Aristotles
Poetics. Ibsens "A Dolls House" Ibsens play, first produced in 1879, was considered quite risqu? in its time. Many audiences were deeply offended at the play and were
downright irate at the material presented. In Ibsens time women were mothers and wives and they had no identity of their own. Ibsens play presents the story of a woman
who develops and wants her own identity. The main concept of the play that truly made audiences disgruntled was the fact that in the end of his story Nora
leaves her family, abandoning her children. Society did not like this approach for a good woman would never leave her children. It can perhaps be assumed, however, that there were
many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out in favor of their own identity
and their desire to have an identity away from motherhood and being a wife. In essence, Ibsens play spoke to the modern world, offering realism in a somewhat disturbing manner
for the society. It was not as though women were not fighting for their rights in Ibsens time, but the struggle did not involve leaving ones children behind in
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