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LIT 100
Analysis Three: Play
Directions: Choose one of the following essay topics, and write an analytical essay, complete with introduction, body, and conclusion. Your final essay should be 1,250-1,750 words and should include a clear thesis that states your main point. In addition, your analysis should be supported by specific examples from the play. Use MLA style for documenting your examples. This essay is worth 15% of your overall grade, and is due by midnight on Tuesday 28 April 2020.

  1. Discuss the significance of Susan Glasspell’s play being titled Trifles.
  3. Discuss a theme related to justice or crime and punishment in Susan Glasspell’s play

Trifles.

  1. How does Susan Glasspell use the concept of irony in her play Trifles? What purpose

does it serve?

  1. During the time of Susan Glasspell’s play Trifles, women did not yet have the right to

vote. In what ways is this play a condemnation of the treatment of women during this
time?

  1. Discuss the relationship of Torvald and Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Does

their relationship evolve at all during the course of the play?

  1. Discuss the significance of the title A Doll’s House. How does this title capture the

essence of the play?

  1. Henrik Ibsen has been described by many as one of the first feminists due to his portrayal

of women in A Doll’s House. Discuss the significance of this play as it relates to
society’s treatment of women.

  1. Discuss the use of symbolism in Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House. What purpose does

this symbolism serve in the play?

  1. Compare and contrast the portrayal and treatment of women in Trifles and A Doll’s

House. In what ways do these two plays serve as ridicule for the unequal treatment of
women during this time?

  1. Discuss the treatment of justice in the two plays Trifles and A Doll’s House. What points

are the authors trying to make about the law and its treatment of women and men?

  1. Discuss the concept of control in the play A Doll’s House. How is control wielded in the

play and for what purpose?

  1. Discuss the use of irony in Oedipus, the King, by Sophocles.
  3. In what ways is Oedipus a tragic hero in the play Oedipus, the King?
  5. Analyze one of the themes in Oedipus, the King.