Individual Oral Planning Sheet ​Taylor Pagel Per.

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Developing a plan for an individual oral:

Global Issue: The global issue present in both works is that women are under the expectations
of society to sacrifice themselves and their being in order to be subservient to their children to
their husband and children; this subservience leads women to be trapped in their role in
society.
Works Chosen:

Work in Translation: ​A Doll’s House ​by Henrik Ibsen

Second Work: ​The Awakening ​by Kate Chopin

Notes for the Oral. (Maximum of TEN bullet points.) Key strategies used in the passage to
develop the author’s point about the global issue:

● “overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul’s slavery for the rest of her days”;
in this simile the children are inadvertly trapping their mother in a life full of misery
● “you neglect your most sacred duties?” “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.”
Torvald is relaying the message that society has repeatedly related to women
● “voice of the sea is seductive”; foreshadowing that was present in the beginning of
the novel, represents the calling of passion for women in this time period
● “You have some moral sense, don’t you?”; rhetorical question describes her actions
in a negative light, her desire for freedom is seen as selfish by society and her
husband
● “ A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling
disabled down”; allusion to the Baha’i religion in which a bird symbolizes society
● “I can no longer be satisfied with what most people say or what is written in books”;
feminist movement is beginning with women wanting better and more for themselves
● “She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had
never known”; simile expresses how women were not allowed to experience the world
● “Why not try to understand your place in your own home?” rhetorical question is a
direct example of how women were stuck at home, unable to escape
● “they need not have thought that they could possess her, body and soul” relates to
when she said she would not sacrifice herself for anyone, not even her children
● “thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child” as she
is about to die all she can think about is the one time in her life when she was
absolutely free