a doll's house
Theme and writing technics between a midsummer night’s dream and a doll’s house
TOPIC:Compare passage A and passage B excerpts of any unit (exclude unit3), and write a report under any topic you choose. (suggestion: content, theme, form and writing technics, etc.)
班级：卓会12-1
学号：201205001464
姓名：李晟 the word-count on the cover：918
abstract
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare.The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
A a doll's house is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time,[2] as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself.
theme
Before 20 century, European thought that nothing was considered more holy than the covenant of marriage, and free love was completely unacceptable. However, Shakespeare is the famous writer during Renaissance while a doll’s house of Ibsen is considered as the origin of woman’s liberation.
Both of them criticize traditional marriage. So, the theme of two work is that people should feel free to pursue happiness and live as they choose, instead of being confined by traditional marriage values, however, there are some differences between these two work. Firstly, A midsummer night’s dream , while a doll’s house criticizes the traditional roles of men and women in 19th-century marriage. To be detailed, in a midsummer night’s dream, the father, EGEUS, says, ‘ Since you belong to me, I can do what I want with you—as the law says: I can either make you marry Demetrius—or have you killed.’ And the daughter, HERMIA, says, ”So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up into his lordship, whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give sovereignty.” Besides, in a midsummer night’s dream, the person who fight against the traditional marriage
TOPIC:Compare passage A and passage B excerpts of any unit (exclude unit3), and write a report under any topic you choose. (suggestion: content, theme, form and writing technics, etc.)
班级：卓会12-1
学号：201205001464
姓名：李晟 the word-count on the cover：918
abstract
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare.The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
A a doll's house is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time,[2] as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself.
theme
Before 20 century, European thought that nothing was considered more holy than the covenant of marriage, and free love was completely unacceptable. However, Shakespeare is the famous writer during Renaissance while a doll’s house of Ibsen is considered as the origin of woman’s liberation.
Both of them criticize traditional marriage. So, the theme of two work is that people should feel free to pursue happiness and live as they choose, instead of being confined by traditional marriage values, however, there are some differences between these two work. Firstly, A midsummer night’s dream , while a doll’s house criticizes the traditional roles of men and women in 19th-century marriage. To be detailed, in a midsummer night’s dream, the father, EGEUS, says, ‘ Since you belong to me, I can do what I want with you—as the law says: I can either make you marry Demetrius—or have you killed.’ And the daughter, HERMIA, says, ”So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up into his lordship, whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give sovereignty.” Besides, in a midsummer night’s dream, the person who fight against the traditional marriage