Global Issues in Poe Stories

 Identity – never reveals the identity or what we understand by identity.

Interested in analyzing the mind of the murderer. Man not as a social construct

but as a primitive representation of instincts and motives.

 Culture -as a repressive source.

 Family – disrupted, skewed relationships

 Conflicting relationship between humans- stark realities, man and animals.

 Conflict within the self-

 Conflict of values/ ethics/morality, conflict with others

 Distribution of wealth and resources

 Justice and Law

 Mental health – obsession

Global Issues in A Doll’s House

Gender identity

Gender roles

marital relationship

Body image

objectification of women

masculinity

women and money matters

unequal relationship

assertion of the individual

protest and rebellion

emotional abuse