The dolls house

Point of view
By:

Mohd Atif Hafiz bin Zulkaflee Nor Hasraa Hakimi bin Hassan Ahmad Fikri Noor Bin Zakaria Mohd Khairol Anuar Bin Zakaria Siti Amira binti Zakaria Syazana binti Samsuri Hani Binti Halim

Point of view
The term 'Point of View' is used only in relation to prose fiction. Point of view is a manner of viewing things or an attitudes. It is also means a position from which something is observed or considered. It indicates which character is telling the story and whose perspective the readers get as they read the story.
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The Dolls House

In the short story 'The Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield, a main idea that was deal with was the class distinction existed in the 1900s, the period of when the story was based on. Through the story, the author illustrates the horrid and wickedness of the social hierarchy system. Class distinction was taken for granted in the town where the story was based, the social prejudice believes were past on to children from parents. The children portrays the attitudes of their parents towards those that belonged to the lower class, such as the Kelveys. In the first place, the upper class parents believed that their children were 'forced to mix together' as sn/bi/bm it was the 'only school for miles'. Snobbery began to

 Mrs. Hay has given a doll's house to the Burnell children; it is minutely described, with especial emphasis on a lamp inside of it, which the youngest girl, Kezia, thinks is the best part of the doll's house of all. The next morning they cannot wait to show it off to their school friends; Isabel bossily says she will be the one to decide who is allowed to come and see it in the house as she is the eldest. The Kelveys, two poor girls, Lil and "our" Else, will not be allowed to do so; Aunt Beryl talks Kezia out of letting them. Later, Isabel and two of her friends, Emmie Cole and Lena Logan, taunt the Kelveys about their low social status. Soon afterwards Kezia impulsively decides to show them the house sn/bi/bm anyway; Aunt Beryl, worried about an insisting

 However, this appearance of respectability is often false. Two girls are consistently inhibited from visiting the doll house. The Kelvey girls come from a poor household. Moreover, their father is in prison. The appearance is that they are "less" than everyone else, and so they are prevented from visiting the doll house. However, Kezia realizes how unfair this is, and tries to obtain permission for the Kelvey's to come to the house. Unfortunately, her "respected" family refuses to allow such "dangerous" little girls to come to the home. The discrimination first shown by the older Burnells and then by the classmates of the Kelveys demonstrates the unfairness in social class structure.
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