How Plato would have resolved issues facing characters in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerieand Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.
This paper discusses how Plato focused much time and attention to the individuals of his republic and how they would have to be in order to ensure a near-perfect society. By using this text and other Platonic ideals, the paper explains that the problems faced by the characters in Williams?s ?The Glass Menagerie? and Ibsen?s ?A Doll?s House? could have avoided conflict and the ultimate and untimely end of their nuclear family units as they knew them.
Largely considered the founder of modern philosophy, Plato was born in 427 b.c.e. His writings are based on the philosophical questions that surrounded him. The Republic is one of his most studied works, describing his perception of a perfect society. Republic was written in Greece around 375 BC. Just prior to writing Republic, Plato had toured Italy, and returned to Athens to found a school to train thinkers. These thinkers, he had hoped, would turn into the philosopher rulers he thought were needed in his republic. During this time, there was much warfare among rival Greek leagues, perhaps inspiring Plato to vision a perfect society in which everybody got along.”