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An examination of how Ibsen and Lorca present the confinement of women in their plays Blood Wedding and Hedda Gabler.
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Candidate Name: Nele Maria Palipea Candidate Number: 001408- 023 IB English A1 HL World Literature Assignment 1 An examination of how Ibsen and Lorca present the confinement of women in their plays Blood Wedding and Hedda Gabler. Word count: 1580 The theme of confinement is significant in these plays as both of the playwrights have physically confined their female characters into a closed environment and constantly refer back to it through speech. They do so in order to encourage the audience to think about the unequal and unpleasant situation of women in their societies. It's respectable to comment that targeting this issue must've seemed radical to the passively accepting public of those times, whereas, it promotes admiration in the contemporary audiences who have mostly passed gender inequality. Through looking at setting, language and symbols, this essay explores the portrayal of women's confinement in Blood Wedding and Hedda Gabler. The playwrights have physically depicted the confinement of women...
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