Consider families and their function ( and dysfunctions) in Together, Naive Super, The Dwarf and Babette's Feast.
How are the authors' and filmmaker' view of family expressed through these texts and films? what are examples of successful families in these works, that is, which families support their members, enabling individual members to grow while also promoting the general good of the family unit? Which families are failures? Why are they failures? Please be specific ( For this question, a "family" need not be a traditional unclear type- father,mother,children.)
Reading -
Par Lagerkvist, The Dwarf
Erlend Loe, Naive. super
Film -
Gabriel Axel, Babette's Feast (1987)
Lukas Moodysoon, Together (2000)