Connections+with+A+Doll's+House

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 * Common Themes and Motifs**
 * Deception/Lies
 * Suicide attempts + stockings + hiding his job vs. forgery +macaroons
 * Appearance (Image projected)/Reality
 * Happy household vs. Nora's suppression of herself to be what Torvald wants; successful salesman vs. failure
 * Rationalization of actions
 * Nora's reasons for forgery; Linda's constant support of Willy and Willy's denial of actual occurrences regarding himself and Biff
 * Money (as the root of all evil and conflict)
 * Leads to multiple conflicts everywhere, is the cause of central conflict in DH
 * Societal expectations
 * Clash between personal belief and changing society
 * Women's roles
 * Women as supportive, tolerant, and kind towards husbands, who dominate and dictate what happens in the household
 * Children closer to mothers
 * Success as defined in both plays
 * Responsibility (observed how characters cope and push blame onto others)
 * Deterioration (mental state of characters, or relationships)
 * Independence (Nora and Biff)


 * Character Overlaps**
 * Linda and Mrs. Linde
 * foils/opposites of Willy and Nora
 * Torvald and Willy
 * need to dominate
 * impulsive, proud, and a bit childish
 * cannot accept blame
 * oppressive
 * Nora and Willy
 * often alone on stage where characters enter and exit (shows mental processing for both characters)
 * Nora and Linda
 * roles as women
 * stereotypical housewives staying home, caring for the family
 * Krogstad/Nora and Willy
 * victims of society


 * Plot overlaps**
 * Opening scenes show main couple relationships: //Willy and Lnda's conversation only about how Willy's day and work went shows that he is more dominant in the relationship; Torvald's comments and instructions for Nora's actions and behaviors show that Torvald is in control of Nora to some extent//
 * Opening scenes revolve around "day"s spent by the main characters Nora and Willy: //Willy's work; Nora's shopping//
 * Males dominate the conversations/interactions and thus suggest that they have higher status over females in in the couple relationship: //in Streetcar, the characters only discuss about Willy's day and Linda is just listening and occasionally questioning Willy about things he say; in DH, Nora mostly tells her day of shopping and Torvald at first only seems to listen to Nora's speeches, but later comments on her actions during the day, and instructs on how she should behave//
 * Dilemmas faced by different characters regarding choices that they must make that direct the movement of the story: //Biff and Happy discuss their uncertain future - which their parents Willy and Linda are worried about -> Willy experiences a series of hallucinations; Nora's forgery kept secret to her husband, she tries her best to conceal the deed from Torvald knowing about it//