There is something stronger than steel or diamonds. A family’s bond, if structured correctly, will never be broken. There could always be interior and exterior forces that could weaken the bond of a family ultimately breaking it. Not only in my personal experience, but in the literature that we have studied are examples of this theory. In A Doll’s House, The Three Sisters and Maus (I and II) there was both interior and exterior force that separated the families. In the case of Nora it was a positive effect, while with the sisters it was a negative effect, and the complexity of the relationship between alive and dead relatives of the family.
In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, at first the two characters that are married seem to be in a happy relationship. Nora was a typical housewife while her …show more content…
This family has two different situations that they are handling at once, where they live in the past that effects the future and the use of or lack thereof spending money. In the first book, Vladek makes several references to his first son Richieu. More so on how Artie was always compared to him. I know the feeling of being compared, when I was young my parents’ friends always compared myself to my three brothers, but it was over stupid little bets like who will be in a relationship first, who’s going to give them their first grandchild, things like that. Not who was the better son, to me that seems a little unfair being compared to someone that was so young when he died, and never was able to knowledgably make his own mistakes. “I’m telling you, it was tragedy among tragedies. He was such a happy, beautiful boy!” (Spiegelman 109). The way that Vladek described his feelings toward his dead son, there would be no way for Art to be compared with a young boy who was deemed perfect. So with the constant comparison to his dead brother, Art never developed as of a strong relationship with his father than what it
In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, at first the two characters that are married seem to be in a happy relationship. Nora was a typical housewife while her …show more content…
This family has two different situations that they are handling at once, where they live in the past that effects the future and the use of or lack thereof spending money. In the first book, Vladek makes several references to his first son Richieu. More so on how Artie was always compared to him. I know the feeling of being compared, when I was young my parents’ friends always compared myself to my three brothers, but it was over stupid little bets like who will be in a relationship first, who’s going to give them their first grandchild, things like that. Not who was the better son, to me that seems a little unfair being compared to someone that was so young when he died, and never was able to knowledgably make his own mistakes. “I’m telling you, it was tragedy among tragedies. He was such a happy, beautiful boy!” (Spiegelman 109). The way that Vladek described his feelings toward his dead son, there would be no way for Art to be compared with a young boy who was deemed perfect. So with the constant comparison to his dead brother, Art never developed as of a strong relationship with his father than what it