DRE122H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Determinism, Gesamtkunstwerk, Social Darwinism
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Interest: how nora changes her tone or way of speaking towards the end of the play (how she"s constantly implied as a doll) How we constantly concentrated on the change in nora"s character but left her husband"s character out: the title: how all of them were dolls. Yet it"s the sick one who need to be brought inside- pg 210. A couple decadates before, a bif scintifice theory resulted: theory of evolotouing: cultural shift, hpw society thought about humanity. Biological evolution: decent with modification: how society and humans are changing genetically. Darwin came up with with during 1830"s but was released later; he really wanted to think about tis theory before release it because it"s a big theory. It was published during 1850"s; he didn"t want to but was forced to because there was someone else who wanted to release similar theory. Victorian era: british and western society were characterised as strict (p) no grey; whither black or white.
