YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Passive Women and Active Men in Ibsen and Pope
Essays 151 - 180
that she has thoughts and ideas that are not necessarily normal for a simple woman. She has a fire, and that fire is the element o...
normal and average. Nora is a woman who is seen as nothing more than a simple creature. Her husband often refers to her in cond...
her position of being pregnant. Through this pregnancy, her ability to be incredibly fertile, she is truly trapped in a world that...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...
coincidence and picturesque contrast" (A Dolls House) punctuated by his use of language plays a significant role in identifying No...
with that described in her "Vindication". Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Dolls House" in 1879 during a time when womens rights were ...
is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...
beginning of the story she is simply a doll, a pretty thing that plays her role as the good wife and mother. As one author notes, ...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
were reaped. There did seem to be an exercise of wealth and power due more to the consequence of their trading empires in non-Eur...
more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...
the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...
of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...
This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...
eye-opening realization that throughout her life, the men that ruled over her, first her father and then her husband, never actual...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
In ten pages this paper discusses issues of blackmail, abandonment, marital rape, and divorce within the context of the role justi...
In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...
should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...
they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...
society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...
In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...
In seven pages this paper analyzes Ibsen's social play in terms of its dualities represented in plot and characterization. Six so...
This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...
In 5 pages this paper discusses Henrik Ibsen's obscure play and considers how this theme is reflected in the drama's characters. ...