The Conflict Between Reality and Appearance in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Abstract

This research paper attempts to discuss and analyze the two major themes that are presented in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams which are escapism and the conflict between reality and appearance, using psychoanalysis introduced and developed by Sigmund Freud as our theory in order to go in depth and analyze the character’s personalities and psyches to get to understand their actions, thus, to understand the two selected themes we cited above. This paper shows the authors’ great careers, the successes they achieved, and the failures they faced through their biographies. It also presents some historical events that affected the two writers’ eras and countries, and influenced them to come out with their pieces of writings...