Compare And Contrast Hunger And A Doll's House

Sacrifice: Manipulation and Self-Destruction Leads to Downfalls

In “Hunger” by Knut Hamsun and “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, the protagonists show sacrificial entities within themselves as they relinquish themselves to obtain superficial benefits. An unnamed protagonist is on the brink of hunger as he starves in order to write. A woman grows towards debt as her lies and dishonesty catches up to her and ruins her marriage. Sacrifice may seem beneficial, but it also has devastating downfalls as it justifies brutal, physical and mental actions. Although self- sacrifice is commonly seen in religion in politics, we also use sacrifice in entities such as with love and morals. As humans, we plunge into ridiculousness in order to sacrifice part of ourselves, but sometimes, these sacrifices lead to fraudulence as well as the hunger for additional desires.

Struggling to earn a living and consume food, he continuously writes, sacrificing and manipulating his own sanity for his work. His own coherency slowly disintegrates as he refuses to eat in order to keep writing his articles. In his disturbing state of ridiculousness, his writings turn out outrageous as they are constantly being rejected by the editor. Hamsun shows us that we sacrifice an important entity in order to keep doing what we enjoy, it can sometimes destroy our own stability in the end, making our own mentality become deprived. Within ourselves, we each sacrifice a necessity in order to receive something that we