In two works you have studied, explore how the title and/or opening lines take on increasing significance throughout the work.
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Both Atwood and Ibsen make beginnings deceptively simple. At first glance, The Handmaid’s Tale and A Doll’s House seem to offer, respectively, a narrated story and a domestic setting. Yet as each work develops, its title and opening become charged with retrospective irony. In Atwood’s novel, the title’s apparently