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than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...
She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
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...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...
her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...
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...
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 ...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...
of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...
with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...
This essay indicates that Barry Witham and John Lutterbie's Marxist analysis of "The Doll's House" is accurate and provides insigh...
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 seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...
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...
In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...
partner. He makes frequent animal comparisons to his wife, referring to her as "my little lark" (43) or "my squirrel" (44). Thes...
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 four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the works by Henrik Ibsen and Franz Kafka in a consideration of each author's pres...
The ways in which confinement in its various forms such as psychological, social, financial, and emotional are thematically repres...
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...