Compare And Contrast A Doll House And Everyday Use By Henrik Ibsen

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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself,” said play writer George Bernard Shaw. However, the way Dee of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House” and Nora Helmer of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” interprets the term creating is drastically different from one another. Dee the pretty and successful school girl who has come home to visit her family demands all stylish items, which relates to the new her, to be placed in her possession. Nora the wife of a rich lawyer who treats her more like a play toy has realized she’s never been in love her whole marriage. Overall, Dee’s approach is to simply maintain the image of the culture she comes from and Nora wants to restart her life completely to find out who she really is. Dee’s main