Trapped inside society

TRAPPED INSIDE SOCIETY OR EVE - AN IMPROVED VERSION OF ADAM This term paper will show to what a great extent society is influenced by men. I suggest that in Marsha Norman´s play "Getting Out"1 her protagonist Arlene would never have faced so many problems in life, let alone would have become criminal, if men did not possess such a great power over society. Men being in power throughout the world …

…the question if, and if so, to what extent, Norman herself was a victim of society and thus forced to put a positive closure at the end of the play. If it proved right that she in fact was a victim of society this discovery would further imply that her writing of the play was her step towards facing her crypt imposed by society but that then society intervened and stopped her from further investigations.