Dramas and Women’s Rights
This essay looks into the relationship between the arguments made by the leading activists of the women’s rights movement and three literary plays: Euripides’ “Medea,” Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” and Glaspell’s “Trifles.” Though not all of these authors were aiming to contribute to this agenda, this study’s purpose is to explore the support that these stories and characters offer to the ongoing discussion. These dramas span hundreds of years and encompass several cultures, and seem to directly embody these feminist ideas, and allow modern audiences to trace feminist ideology forward to the continuing fight for equality even in present times.
ENG 499, Senior Capstone
Steve Goetz
P103
10 – 10:30 AM