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This paper examines the reasons behind Nora Helmer's actions and how they revolve around the constrictions of the patriarchal soci...

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...

her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...

She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...

is certain he will. Nora then discloses how she borrowed the money for their trip to Italy and has been struggling to pay it back ...

Tovald must deal with those of his subordinates. Despite his law background, he is employed as a bank manager and has a number of...

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...

particularly like the characters of Christine and Krogstad, especially since Krogstad is essentially blackmailing Nora, we see tha...

sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...

This essay offers analysis of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun" according to the principles of Gordon ...

This essay indicates that Barry Witham and John Lutterbie's Marxist analysis of "The Doll's House" is accurate and provides insigh...

is able to whisk her husband off to a warmer climate, which has the desired effect and Torvald regains his good health. However, ...

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

the century is likely to demonstrate far more social constraints and strict behavioural codes which mediate against gender equalit...

him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for his position. He puts the blam...

the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...

shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...

53). However, when he discovers Nora and her involvement in certain business matters, he is forced to realize that she has done fa...

In 5 pages this paper examines the feminist aspects of these plays in an analysis of the plot structures of each. There are no ot...

In five pages this paper subjects Ibsen's social drama to a literary analysis that focuses on characterization, plot, and irony. ...

Nora Helmer and Hedda Gabler are contrasted and compared in 5 pages in terms of life perceptions, relationships, intellect, and pe...

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the different stress reactions of protagonists Willy Loman and Nora Helmer in these social dramas b...

In five pages this paper examines the personal empowerment that transforms heroine Nora Helmer in this social drama by Ibsen. The...

In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

House shocked audiences when it first appeared with its depiction of a woman who refused to live by societys "rules." This paper d...