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Assignment: After you have completed
reading Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, write a one-page essay on one of the two following
topics:
- Imagine that you are a middle-class, European woman
or man, who has just seen a performance of A Doll’s House in 1880, and you have to
write a one-page review of it for the local newspaper. Write a review
either encouraging or discouraging readers from going to see the play;
that is, write a review that is either quite positive or quite negative
about the performance. Do not try to summarise the plot; you will not
have space. Your response should attempt to be consistent with a
middle-class nineteenth-century perspective, either of a women or man
[male students can pretend to be women and vice versa].
- Imagine you are Henrik Ibsen’s publisher. He has
just handed you the manuscript of A Doll’s House and asked whether you will
publish it. You write a one-page response to Ibsen explaining why or why
not you think his play should be published. Again, strive to respond as
a member of the nineteenth-century middle-class would. Do not try to
summarize the play.
Format: Your essay should be one page
in length, typed (on a computer), single-spaced, using the 12 point Times
font, with one inch margins all round. In the upper right corner of the page
write the course number, your section, your name, the date, and the topic you
are writing on.
See
the below example.
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History 102
Section 1
Mark Baker
12 October 2007
Topic 1
Begin essay…
[remember, one page, single-spaced, one-inch margins, 12 point Times font].
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