ENG 130 SU Family Theme in A Doll House & How I Learned to Drive Thesis Paper This is a thesis paper about family, comparing with A Doll’s House by Henrik

ENG 130 SU Family Theme in A Doll House & How I Learned to Drive Thesis Paper This is a thesis paper about family, comparing with A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Proof by David Auburn, and How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel in MLA style. Essay #2 – ENG 130
Due: April 27 (or before!)
Length: 4-5 pages (include a “Works Cited” at the end)
Topic: Family in Two Plays
I’m going to keep this topic as broad as possible and challenge you to narrow it down for your
purposes. I’m asking you to make a connection between two of the three major plays we are
discussing: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Proof by David Auburn, and How I Learned to Drive
by Paula Vogel. All three of these plays are about family in one way or another. Make a more
specific connection between the characters, plots, or themes of two of these plays to articulate
some idea about families that emerges from your readings of them. Your inquiry should result
in a thesis that can hold your paper together and advance an original idea.
Please do not consult interpretations you might find on websites. You have become a better
reader this semester: this is your chance to showcase those talents. Evidence of language
adapted from or copied from websites without documentation constitutes plagiarism.
You might find it useful to narrow the topic right away: “family” is deliberately broad. Note
that all of the protagonists of the plays are women: is that significant? Think about
generations: do they view the importance of family differently? Think about the notion of an
acceptable “role” in a family (a term also associated with drama, of course!). Consider the
tension between the needs of a family and the needs of an individual within a family. Consider
the way individual families develop their own rules or codes in addition to the norms for
families more generally.
Think carefully and creatively about how two of these plays intersect with regard to family
dynamics. You’ll eventually come up with an argument that relies on evidence from the text.
You might do well to read pages 1125-1131 (Writing About Drama) toward the end of the
anthology. I’m here for you to discuss ideas at any stage of the writing process: send questions
via email.

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