What literary elements do both authors use to support and
develop the central idea?
read the passage from a doll's house by henrik ibsen
helmer: to desert your home, your husband and your
children! and you don't consider what people will say!
nora: i cannot consider that at all. i only know that it is
necessary for me
helmer: it's shocking. this is how you would neglect your
most sacred duties.
read the passage from a room of one's own by virginia
woolf.
that refuge she would have sought certainly. it was the
relic of the sense of chastity that dictated anonymity to
women even so late as the nineteenth century. currer
bell, george eliot, george sand, all the victims of inner
strife as their writings prove, sought ineffectively to veil
themselves by using the name of a man. thus they did
homage to the convention, which if not implanted by the
woolf uses emotionally charged language to
emphasize her viewpoint, while ibsen uses language
that is factual and direct.
ibsen uses dialogue to build conflict between
characters, while woolf uses allusions to historical
figures to make her point.
both passages follow a cause-effect structure to show
that a lack of privacy is the result of society's pressure
on women to conform
both passages follow a problem-solution structure in
which the problem is revealed in a central conflict or
theme.