remise that Nora simply left Torvald after she wasn’t happy with their marital relationship. Unheard of in those days! Therefore, Ibsen himself called the play a “Modern Tragedy.”An important element in “good writing” is foreshadowing. An example is in the TV-Drama series Felicity. In a recent episode, Felicity the main character went to a Frat party with friends where she got wasted and woke up in a strange guys bed. Her best friend Noel, a computer technician, got called to a dorm to take care of a PC with a virus, when he opens the computer owners email to scan it, he sees a picture of Felicity, nude, with the Frat guy at the party, that had been sent to every student in the database. In the meantime, Felicity is at the doctor’s office being checked for STD’s and getting the morning after pill to make sure she didn’t get pregnant. This entire beginning foreshadowed the following break up with her boyfriend, Ben, and sappy makeup after the Frat guy admits that he didn’t have sex with her. Noel, the computer tech., then must be the one to “fix” things between Ben and Felicity and the show ends, with things being okay again. In modern drama, most of the good writing ideas have been taken. This makes the stories even more predictable, because it’s already happened. That also is a problem with good writers and especially poets. Is there a rhyme that hasn’t been done?? These writers such as Ibsen and Kafka were the pioneers. They could do it like it had never been done before. They truly, “wrote the silence!”...
