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Essays 301 - 330
male dominance. Heddas immoral, destructive character is a direct product of the oppressiveness of a patriarchal society. As a m...
In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....
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 considers the way these playwrights revealed social criticism through the irony of their respective plays...
Nora Helmer and Hedda Gabler are contrasted and compared in 5 pages in terms of life perceptions, relationships, intellect, and pe...
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...
In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...
The ways in which confinement in its various forms such as psychological, social, financial, and emotional are thematically repres...
of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...
One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
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...
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...
beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...
This essay indicates that Barry Witham and John Lutterbie's Marxist analysis of "The Doll's House" is accurate and provides insigh...
many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...
On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...
his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...
As the race of the infant becomes more obvious, its race being obviously partially African, she becomes confused. Her husband bera...
(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...
This 3 page paper gives a example for verbal, situational, and character types of irony. This paper includes three instances in th...
and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...
were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...
until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...
than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...
These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...
Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...