Hamlet and A Doll's House, explanation and question 1

Hello students! Welcome to Week 7 of class! This week, there are two different posts to which you need to respond. The first one will be at the end of this post, the second will be in a separate post. You must respond to both posts, and also reply to two other posts, composed by your classmates. Your posts must include quotations from the plays, as well as outside sources, all cited correctly using APA citation styling. This will count as 75% of your midterm grade, so make sure that you are answering fully. Your answers must be a minimum of 200 words, and your responses must be at least 50 words.

The first question that needs to be answered follows a basic introduction:

As the old saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. This colloquialism applies, obviously to everything under the sun, including familial relationships. What may have been the case in the 1600s, was also happening in the 1800s as well as in 2010. Families have been around since the inception of time, with the intricacies that encompass those relationships. Sometimes relationships are easy, and not the victims of years of dysfunction. Other times, they are fraught with historical difficulties that are born out in the lives of family members, sometimes for generations to come. This is evidenced in the plays “Hamlet,” by William Shakespeare, and “A Doll’s House,” by Henrik Ibsen. These two plays demonstrate the timelessness and effects of dysfunctional families on their characters and in the lives of those affected by the issues with which they deal.

Question #1. In the two plays “A Hamlet,” and “A Doll’s House,” there are many examples of dysfunctional families. What members of the families are in specific dysfunctional relationships with what specific other members of the families, and how are these dysfunctions played out?