Explore how individuals come to understand themselves and their place in the world by analyzing one character from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House.

Prompt:
Explore how individuals come to understand themselves and their place in the world by analyzing one character from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House.
More specifically, explore the various pressures, influences, and/or stereotypes that shape or attempt to shape a character’s life, perspective, and actions, and also consider if and how the character responds to these factors. <-- address this is in your thesis and then break up into each body paragraph (refer back to the outline to clearly see how to organize this essay) In developing your analysis, you must refer to A Doll House and outside sources; you must use direct quotations from these sources and from Ibsen’s play. Although this assignment asks you to do outside reading, your main task remains the same: to produce an argument of your own drawing upon a literary text. The outside sources are meant to help you develop and deepen your own interpretation of A Doll House, not to substitute for it. You are using the sources to help you understand your chosen character’s ideas, behavior, self-understanding, presentation to the world, etc. For this essay you will also do some outside research –you should use our library databases available from Harbor College: http://libguides.lahc.edu/library (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) to add extra depth and evidence to your analysis of the themes and issues in this play and/or sources available online. These can be sources to help define specific symbols, and/or the story. Sources NOT allowed are: Wikipedia, Shmoop, SparkNotes, a blog, etc. (sources cited in this essay must be from a published website, article, journal, etc). You can also use Google Scholar but make sure at least one source is from one of our academic databases from Harbor. There is also an outline posted for this essay which I strongly suggest you look at and attempt to fill in – it will give you an idea of how to structure and focus each paragraph. Requirements to be eligible for an A or B paper: 6 – 8 pages Arguable Thesis – discuss the various pressures, influences, and/or stereotypes that shape or attempt to shape a character’s life, perspective, and actions, and also consider if and how the character responds to these factors MLA formatted (5 points will be automatically deducted if your essay is not MLA formatted) Use textual evidence to support your thesis – needs direct quotes from the play as well as at least THREE outside sources – one of these needs to be from an academic database) Works Cited page (5 points will be automatically deducted if your Works Cited page is not correctly formatted – there is a handout posted under ‘Research Paper Module’) Use Formal Language – no ‘you, us, we, our, I, etc’

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