Sunday, October 26, 2008

Female oppression, female domination, death

Will these be reoccurring themes in the plays we read?
In both Hedda Gabler and House of Bernarda Alba, there is some type of female oppression but also female domination. Then there is the death of Hedda an Adela, two women who felt oppressed, and took their lives to escape. As the plays we read go further into time will the same themes occur when we read Lysistrata? How long did woman feel oppressed in their societies, or how long have they held a certain power, and how many have died because of the oppression they feel?
Ibsen and Lorca wrote these plays loosely based on their time periods. Adela, and Hedda could have been two real women.
As far as i know Lysistrata is about women who restrain from sex to end the war, already a theme is developed, female domination/control.

1 comment:

DEE-LESS said...

It seems to repetive that its getting annoying, I don't like it, I wish that the themes change in these plays, I mean I get it already!!!