Both A Doll’s House and Othello focus on characters who use questionable judgmen

Both A Doll’s House and Othello focus
on characters who use questionable judgment. Nora abandons her family
for what some readers would call selfish motivations, and Othello
commits murder after becoming jealous of Desdemona. However, based on
the way the two plays were written, readers are meant to sympathize with
both Nora and Othello, at least on some level. Write an essay in which
you either defend or condemn the actions of these two characters. Have
the authors made these characters likable enough to excuse their
actions?
1500 words.
6 works cited
Here are some suggestions from my teacher’s email.
you’ll
need to keep in mind that the Ibsen and Shakespeare plays should be
cited differently within your text (for the in-text citations).
A Doll’s House is divided only into acts, and its lines aren’t numbered, so just cite it by page number as usual, like this:
When Nora asks Torvald whether he is sleepy, he responds, “Not a bit” (Ibsen 905).
For Othello,
however, you should cite the act, scene, and line(s) for each
borrowing, using upper-case Roman numerals for the act number,
lower-case Roman numerals for the scene number, and Arabic numerals for
the line number(s)—all separated by periods.
The
characters sometimes speak in poetry, and when that happens, their
lines should look like this with slashes: Desdemona comments, “The
heavens forbid / But that our loves and comforts should increase / Even
as our days do grow!” (Shakespeare II.i.189-91).
At
other times, the characters speak in prose, so their lines should look
like this: Roderigo responds to Iago, “Is that true? Why, then Othello
and Desdemona return again to Venice” (Shakespeare IV.ii.222-23).
How
can you tell the difference? If the lines are poetry, the first word of
each new line will be capitalized. If not, they’re prose.
The works-cited entries for both plays should look like any others we’ve had fromBackpack Literature.