A Doll House and Medea

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The paper looks at the characters in the two works "A Doll House" by Ibsen and "Medea" by Euripides. It examines the way the characters act and their relationships, and draws conclusions of whether males are active and females passive. Both works are interesting in the ways they portrays the very differing roles of the men and women of the time.

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"In this essay I have chosen to work with the concepts active and passive and to critically explore the active and passive characteristics of the persons in A Doll House and Medea. The essay will also examine the relationship between the two concepts, the two texts (A Doll House and Medea), and the Western concepts of feminine and masculine. The essay will argue that the two texts and its main characters both sustain and challenge the Western notion that active is associated with masculinity while the passive is associated with femininity as well as the Western concept of 'feminine' and 'masculine' in general."

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