Monday, January 6, 2014

In "The Doll's House", what are main differences between Kezia and Else?Just trying to find some differences on these two characters for an essay.

Central to understanding this excellent short story is
that Kezia and Else are part of the same society, but also come from two different
worlds in terms of their class. This is why the Burnells are able to make fun of the
Kelvey's and completely exclude them from their games and seeing the Doll's
House:



And the
only two who stayed outside the ring were the two who were always outside, the little
Kelveys. They knew better than to come anywhere near the
Burnells.



You might want to
also focus on physical descriptions. We are not told much about the description of
Kezia, apart from the fact that she is strangely attracted to the light in the Doll's
House, but consider how Else is described:


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And her little sister, our Else, wore a long
white dress, rather like a nightgown, and a pair of little boy's boots. But whatever our
Else wore she would have looked strange. She was a tiny wishbone of a child, with
cropped hair and enormous solemn eyes - a little white owl. Nobody had ever seen her
smile; she scarcely ever
spoke.



She is therefore
depicted as a very strange, reclusive figure who does not interact much. This is of
course in contrast with Kezia, who proves herself to be outgoing, as when she invites
the Kelvey sisters in to see the Doll's House.


Of course,
what symbolically unites Kezia and Else, although they are so different in every other
way, is that they both seem to understand the symbolic significance of the little lamp,
and that it represents the warmth of human kindness, that Kezia has just displayed to
the Kelveys.

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