Guided reading path
Marriage, Desire and Social Exposure
Six novels and plays test what happens when private attachment is governed by property, credit, reputation, parenthood and unequal permission to begin again.
Who this is for
Readers who want marriage plots treated as economic, legal and psychological structures rather than simple romances.
Suggested rhythm
About 4 hours a week
Use the weekly plan as a guide, not a deadline. Progress is saved on this device.
The sequence
6 steps, each with a reason
- 01
Week 1
Not startedA Doll’s House
Begin with a compact domestic room where debt makes power visible.
Henrik Ibsen · A2–B1 · 3 hr0% - 02
Week 5
Not startedThe Awakening
Move to art, motherhood and selfhood inside a socially constrained marriage.
Kate Chopin · B1–B2 · 6 hr0% - 03
Week 8
Not startedEthan Frome
See poverty and geography reduce desire to a fantasy of irreversible escape.
Edith Wharton · B1–B2 · 3 hr0% - 04
Week 12
Not startedMadame Bovary
Connect romantic language to provincial routine, credit and consumption.
Gustave Flaubert · B2–C1 · 10 hr0% - 05
Week 16
Not startedThe Age of Innocence
Watch a social group enforce marriage through timing, taste and coordinated silence.
Edith Wharton · B2–C1 · 9 hr0% - 06
Week 19
Not startedAnna Karenina
Finish with the broadest account of family, desire, work, parenthood and unequal judgment.
Leo Tolstoy · B2–C1 · 31 hr0%
When you finish
You will have a working map, not just a list of titles.
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