THTRFLM 1T03 Chapter Notes -Auguste Comte, Social Realism, Human Behavior
12 Apr 2014
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Ibsen"s realist plays considered too scandalous for public performance. Cultural context: performed in private theatres, a doll house first performed in denmark, 1879. Man is created in man"s image social systems understood/justified by appeal to a higher authority eg. heterosexual marriage as a sacred institution. Naturalism: charles darwin: the origin of th species (1859, evolution id dependent on environment/hereditary factors, human behavior is also influenced by environment/hereditary factors, auguste comte (1798-1857) Positivism invention of sociology: metaphysical explanations should be replaced by material explanations determine social factors behind an individual. This will reveal how hereditary/environmental factors determine human behavior/issues. Wanted to look at way people actually behalf, instead of forcing people to look up to an ideal of how they should be. Read the text carefully and identify the characters" cultural assumptions about class. The play challenges contemporary ideological assumptions about gender roles. Gender theory argues that it is not an essential influence male sex does not automatically equal masculine gender.
