“May God strike you to death, two-faced scorpion!” You are a thorn in my flesh", "You are crazy! I won't allow it! I forbid you! “The House of Bernarda Alba” is a play written on the brink of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s by Fredrico Garcia Lorca. “A Doll's House” is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in the late 1800s. Both plays depict domination as a love factor, primarily from the heads of respected plays' families. In both plays "The Doll's House" and "The House of Bernarda Alba", domination and love were key elements in the development of the cheek. Characters who are inherently dominant in their families represent love in different ways. Love is not as easy to interpret from these characters as it is from simple Aunt Polly in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." Love is defined in the characters of Torvald and Bernarda in the form of domination. Torvald is much more subtle in his feelings and more open to interpretation, while Bernarda is more complex and closed in expressing her love. In both plays, insults are a defining factor used by playwrights Ibsen and Lorca to ridicule love. subjects of the antagonist. For example, in "A Doll's House", Ibsen emphasizes the name calling by creating a dehumanizing tone where Torvald often refers to animals such as "the lark", the "little squirrel" and the "little bird singer ". This is an example of how dominance is used to describe his love for his wife, despite a feeling of constriction; while in "The House of Bernarda Alba", Lorca uses a more direct and powerful method of insult to establish Bernarda's dominant nature. Through Bernarda, Lorca used harsh words such as "Weak!" This part...... middle of paper ...... hold with an iron fist, a feeling of affection and love exists in them. Works Cited http://www.enotes.com/dolls-house/discuss/ nora-macaroons-63873http://classiclit.about.com/od/dollshousehenrikibsen/a/A-Dolls-House-Questions-For-Study- And-Discussion.htmhttp://classiclit.about.com/od/dollshousehenrikibsen/ a/A-Dolls-House-Quotes.htmhttp://www.novelguide.com/ADoll'sHouse/novelsummary.htmlhttp://www. shmoop.com/dolls-house/torvald-helmer.htmlhttp://www. sparknotes.com/lit/dollhouse/section3.rhtmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll's_House 7/2/2012http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Bernarda_Alba 7/2/2012 «A doll House", Henrik Ibsen, translated by Stanley Appelbaum, first edition of Modern Classics "The House of Bernarda Alba", Fredrico Garcia Lorca, translated by Michael Dewell and Carmen Zapata, Dover Thrift Editions