The juxtaposition of good and evil, honest and dishonest and the real and the imaginary become the foundation for the building of a character, plot and the tension that brings an audience into the work. This 7 page paper argues that in A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, there are elements of all of these dualities in which the audience becomes enmeshed and the characters defined. Bibliography lists 6 sources. A ten page paper looking at the influence of this South African author's consciousness of her Jewish heritage on her anti-apartheid works. The paper maintains that Gordimer, confused as a child by her mother's secularism, sought to channel her need for validation into a campaign for tolerance and equal rights for all.
Bibliography lists ten sources.
In Potiki, the reader is able to see one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols. In the process, the relationship between people and the land they live on is shown to have greater ties than can be imagined by the typical urbanite. Likewise, Monkey Beach demonstrates that there are people whose greater loyalties are more directly related to the mystical connections that exist for some people in what are most often dismissed as the ordinary occurrences of daily life. Both novels explore the idea of the existence of intranations in the modern world and the ideologies of the residents of those intranations. Bibliography lists 4 sources.