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     A Doll’s House is a play published by the Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, in 1879. It is mainly a three-act modern play which is viewed from a feminist perspective.        In his plot, he provided a clear sample of the stereotypical role of women as  housewives. Nora Helmer, the wife of Torvald Helmer and the mother of three, symbolized a doll that does everything perfectly - cleaning the house, playing with her children, and entertaining her husband - briefly, “the ideal woman in society’s eyes”. However, things did not go as expected. After going through an eye-opening situation, Nora suddenly realized that she did not actually love her husband and decided to look for her own happiness. Ibsen tied up the plot by an ironic end as Nora left both her husband and children.      Some readers consider Ibsen’s desire to reflect women’s struggle and fight for their liberty appreciated, but feminism is not about leaving your child...

              The great writer and dramatist William Shakespeare wrote immortal dramas that has a global impact until now. He wrote the notorious drama, King Lear, which highlights a range of different psychological emotions.            King Lear’s play involves violence and cruelty, and that was instrumental in establishing the main content of his play. As an illustration, Goneril and Regan left their father homeless and mistreated him after dividing his kingdom among them.                     Throughout his accurate characterization, Shakespeare shows the internal and external struggles between the family members. The conflict, in text, is not only between King Lear, the protagonist, and his daughter but also between the minor characters, each for their means of benefit. It is Lear's desire to divide his kingdom among his daughters according to whom is going to expre...

      The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel is set in Lorain, Ohio, and the protagonist of the novel is Pecola, a young African-American girl who was suffering because of her dark skin. The narrator of the novel is Claudia MacTeer.        The protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl, lived in an abusive house. Pecola, who is eleven years old, associates beauty and social acceptance with whiteness, and wishes to have "the bluest eye.". The race and gender are the main ideas of the novel. The Bluest Eye is about how white beauty ideals affect the lives of black women and girls. The white baby doll Claudia is given and Pauline Breedlove's preference of the little white girl she works for over her daughter are both messages that whiteness was superior at the time.          Implicit messages that demonstrate the superiority of whiteness were found everywhere at that ...

     Lysley Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer who is a Whiting Award winner along with many other prominent awards. Monstress is one of his stories in the collection that was published in 2012, which generally portrays the Filipino-American cultural clash that most Asians experience while striving to achieve the Asian American dream.     Tenorio utilized his main characters, the monstress, Reva Gogo, who works as an actress, and her boyfriend, Checkers Rosario, who works as a director to view the Filipino-American experience from two different standpoints with a hint of a post-colonial tone. The story begins with the obsession with Hollywood movies that swept the Philippines in the 1960s, that there were even English-only movie theaters that began to spread all over Manila, pointing out the American hegemony over the cultural and social life in the Philippines, specifically in the way it shapes people’s opinions towards their nationa...

     Alice Walker is an African American writer who wrote many novels, short stories, and poems. In her outstanding story, "everyday use", Walker attempts to depict the Afro-American community while stopping at a crossroad following ages of oppression.      The characters portray a clear-cut picture of the inner conflict within the black community itself, reflecting the struggle on Maggie, Dee, and Johnson’s characters. Maggie comes in as a fragile, vulnerable, and fainthearted black girl who feels inferiority and shame beneath the gaze of her impeccable sister, as if Walker is trying to tell us how some of the black people felt insecurity and weakness. Even if they got rid of their tangible shackles, they seem to linger in their psychological ones. Contrarywise, Dee represents the fierce, confident, enthusiastic black youth who is eager to speak against racism and alter all the wrongs. Despite Dee and Hakim being so blatant to state their objections frankl...