Many works of literature have caused controversy. How do the form and/or content of at least two of the works you have studied give rise to controversy?
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Controversy in literature emerges when a text does not merely represent society but actively unsettles the values by which that society understands itself. In that sense, both Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale are controversial by design. Ibsen provoked nineteenth-century audie