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

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

more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...

laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...

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...

as "little skylark twittering." Her husband calls her "little featherbrain," "little scatterbrain," "squirrel sulking", and "song ...

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...

and changes his mind. He will not sacrifice his only daughter because of Menelaus unfaithful wife. (The impetus behind the Trojan ...

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...

he looked at the possibility that a woman, finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was ...

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...

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

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, ...

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

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

and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

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

yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...

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

seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...

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...

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...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...

beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...

came at that time (called the Progressive Movement) that there may very well have been some sort of internal revolt by the working...

with that problem or challenge being solved by either an individual, a team within the organization, or the organization as a whol...

the only person who could make him feel lonely "simply by leaving the room" (Bock, 2004). Her love for him in return was as clear ...