Corruption+&+Contamination

In __A Doll’s House__, **corruption** and **contamination** are obvious themes. Nora must hide the fact that she borrowed a loan to pay for their holiday when Torvald was ill, because he would not accept the fact that his wife helped save his life. However, in order for Nora to get the loan she forged her father’s signature, which is against the law and is a method of **corruption**. It is not until the last scene that Torvald finds out that Nora went behind his back and also did something immoral. When this happens he blames Nora for being a bad person and no longer wants her in the lives of their children because he believes that she will **contaminate** the children with her bad morals. This shows that in this time they believe that corruption is heredity. It is also portrayed through Dr. Rank whose father lived a morally questionable life, and he believes that his tuberculosis was inherited from his father because his actions.

Shavonne

Corruption and Contamination in **//A Streetcar Named Desire//** In a **//Streetcar Named Desire//** there is evident display of corruption and contamination of the main characters. Alcohol is a major symbol within the play. Blanche drinks alcohol in secret, it is in this way that she contaminates herself. Blanche does this in order to escape her own reality and this form of contamination allows her to forget about her past events which consists of memories that she does not want to remember. For example the guilt that Blanche experiences due to her husband’s suicide is a major conflict that causes Blanche to want to escape those past memories. Her contamination is a way for her to deceive herself of her own reality and allows for her to live a fake world consisting of lies and deception.

Oliver