A Dolls House Full of Tidy Endings
A Doll's House: Full of Tidy Endings It has been said that great works of drama have a universality about them, a timelessness all their own. Many important plays have similarities to one another regardless of the time in which they were written because of this fact. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings are certainly no exception to that rule. Although they were written over a hundred years apart they do show some similarities. An examination of the main characters, foil characters and taboo themes dealt with in each play will make these parities more visible. Themes are universal in nature. A play can have themes about relationships, family, greed, secrets, among many others, all of which have been around since the beginning of the storytelling tradition. The themes dealt with in the plays On Tidy Endings and A Doll's House have more similarities than one might realize. Firstly, there is the fact that both plays deal with themes controversial in their times. A Doll's House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her dishonesty towards her husband, infrequently discussed subjects in the late 1800s. On Tidy Endings deals with the themes of AIDS and homosexual rela
The likeness between the plays' main characters is surprising. They are both more involved with the main female character than with the main male character. Torvald Helmer in A Doll's House, for instance, is ignorant of the fact that his wife, Nora, is not happy in their relationship. One could almost think of June and Mrs. The main characters of On Tidy Endings are Arthur and Marion, a gay man and his lover's ex-wife whose relationship is based mainly on pleasantries and improprieties. Nora and Arthur opened Torvald's and Marion's eyes to the realities of their relationships by using cold, hard facts. Arthur got the courage to confront Marion about her naivete only after his husband passed away. Marion is given a chance to make up for her mistakes, but Torvald is not. These works are both influential in that they do take a theme as old as time itself and put a contemporary twist on it. Relationships, honesty, family, crises and letting go are all common and major themes to both A Doll's House and On Tidy Endings. All great works of drama have something in common-they teach us something profound about ourselves and humankind in general. Linde and June are most interested in are those of the main characters. The two main characters of each play all have different views on their relationships. Nora confronted Torvald after he ranted and raved about her behaviour and conduct.
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