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A play serves as the author's tool for critiquing society. One rarely encounters the ability

to transcend accepted social beliefs. These plays reflect controversial issues that the

audience can relate to because they interact in the same situations every day. As late

nineteenth century playwrights point out the flaws of mankind they also provide an

answer to the controversy. Unknowingly the hero or heroine solves the problem at the

end of the play and indirectly sends a message to the audience on how to solve their own

Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekov both provide unique analysis on issues their culture

never thought as wrong. In the play A Doll's House Ibsen tackles women's rights as a

matter of importance being neglected. In his play he acknowledges the fact that in

nineteenth century European life the role of the women was to stay home, raise the

children, and attend to her husband. Chekov illustrates the role of a dysfunctional family

and how its members are effected. Both of the aforementioned problems are solved

through the playwrights' recommendations and the actions of the characters. In the plays

A Doll's House and Uncle Vanya the authors use realism to present a problem and

her father's name and pass it off as his own. Nora's motive is to save her husband's life

her as a women. When Nora asks if he can reinstate Krogstad at the bank he claims that

placed on her by society and get enough money to save Torvald's life.

live in the late eighteen hundreds. This picture is not a positive one. More wrongs are

counterparts. Torvald sees Nora's only role as being the subservient and loving wife. He

committed against the characters of these plays than any sort of reward for the hardships

oppression by Torvald, but by this time Nora has realized the situation he wishes to

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