YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Passive Women and Active Men in Ibsen and Pope
Essays 121 - 150
while the men were away at war. However, this particular battle represented a great deal of change within and among the steadfast...
Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...
her husband, but she commits fraud when she signs her fathers name to the bond (Ibsen, 2004). (We can assume that her father was w...
leaves, but in Hedda, both Eilert and Hedda die. In his introduction to The Feast at Solhoug, which came in for its share of cri...
colorless and so the arrival of Hilda is compared to the arrival of a "radiant apparition" (Herford, 1909, p. 283). Hilda, says He...
her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
in this case. The setting of the plays could also be associated with the setting that relates to money. In both plays one of the...
and his life. He does not allow, or expect her to be anything more. He berates her like a child for spending money and for eating ...
suicide. When Judge Brack discerns Heddas role in Lovborgs suicide, he threatens blackmail and Hedda, too, commits suicide. Why ...
that her father will never agree to the match due to Rorans diminished prospects. Roran decides to rebuild the farm, but it thwart...
she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...
him to commit suicide. Judge Brack discerns Heddas duplicity in Lovborgs downfall and insinuates that he will hold this over her. ...
her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...
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 pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...
in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...
yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
lock of her hair, the background to the event imbues it with a completely disproportionate quality of the melodramatic. Clarissa, ...
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...
in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...