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

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...

overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...

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

This essay asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...

an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...

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

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

partner. He makes frequent animal comparisons to his wife, referring to her as "my little lark" (43) or "my squirrel" (44). Thes...

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

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...

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

In six pages this paper examines how the play of children is metaphorically depicted in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Three sou...

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

should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...

himself as child was to give puppet performances, for his siblings as well as for other children in the town. Think of how a pupp...

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

and the people they know are not perfect. This offers us realism in a very powerful manner. At the same time, however, it is also ...

has been troubled for some time and they, at that instant, feel they would do anything to change it if only she would stay. But, t...