Compare And Contrast Fences And A Doll's House

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During the nineteenth century, a time of rapid growth and development, a profound and accelerated changes took place, which allows women, men, and color people to be treated a little differently; However, injustice, inequality, segregations, and discrimination where still common. Women were still not given equal opportunities (right to vote, borrow money in their names, or working outside of their homes) like men, and also black people especially men, were still being treated unfairly in terms of jobs opportunities, and other activities such as baseball. The stories, “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen and “Fences” by August Wilson took place during that time of the century. The two stories revolve around how these social injustices affect and influence the behavior of the characters during that time. Although the two stories have some similarities in common, however, they also have some major differences that make each story unique.
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At the end of the stories, Troy and Torvald ended up being alone with both of their wives departed from them for different reasons. Rose reasons was that Troy cheated on her and pregnant his mistress Alberta, this made Rose to became very angry and felt like she was not good enough for him “Maybe you ought to go on and stay down there with her, if she is a better woman than me” for him cheating and refuses not to stop seeing her, cause Rose to leave with the agreement of rising the Alberta’s child. In A Doll’s House, Torvald also could not treat Nora right or equal, instead he treats her as doll or a little child. At the end of story, Nora finally become aware of the facts that what she considered love was not love after all, because Torvald refuses to take the blame for her. So she decided to leave in other for her to discover the world for

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