Like Water for Chocolate Group

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lambchop
lambchop
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High School - 12th Grade

What similarities do Like Water for Chocolate and A Dolls House share in terms of the direct and indirect effects of a predetermined destiny?

Focus on the roles and responsibilities of women.

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Posted by lambchop on Tuesday March 25, 2008 at 7:23 PM and tagged with a dolls house, destiny, fate, gender, like water for chocolate, role, women.

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  1. podunc Teacher
    College - Sophomore

    eNotes Editor

    Both Nora in A Doll's House and Tita in Like Water for Chocolate are held captive by the prescribed female roles within their cultures and within their families. Nora is a typical Victorian housewife in nineteenth-century Norway: she has no legal rights, no money of her own, and is expected to fulfill the "sacred duties" of wifehood and motherhood above all else. Tita, in turn-of-the-century Mexico, is also expected to follow the cultural tradition that dictates that a widow's youngest daughter must not marry and must care for her mother all of her life. Both women ultimately rebel against these standards.

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    http://www.enotes.com/dollshouse/
    http://www.enotes.com/like-water/

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    Posted by podunc on Wednesday April 16, 2008 at 9:05 PM