The social construction of gender : A comparison of Tennessee Wiliam´s A Streetcar Named Desire and Eugene O´Neill´s Long Day´s Journey into Night

Description

This essay focuses on making a comparative gender analysis between Eugene O´Neill´s play “Long Day´s Journey into Night” and Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire”. It emphases the portraying of socially constructed gender and how the authors present their characters in relation to emotional response as well as power and acting space.

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1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-21784

Tags

Social construction

Gender

Feminist theory

Comparative analysis

Eugene O´Neill

Tennessee Williams

Long Day´s Journey into Night

A Streetcar Named Desire

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-21784
Date	January 2013
Creators	Jarekvist, Anja
Publisher	Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess