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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...
of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
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...
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 order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...
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...
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 ...
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...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
that she has thoughts and ideas that are not necessarily normal for a simple woman. She has a fire, and that fire is the element o...
than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...
is certain he will. Nora then discloses how she borrowed the money for their trip to Italy and has been struggling to pay it back ...
In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences in wifely roles between Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Oth...
hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...
In seven pages Ibsen's views on social morality as conveyed by the symbols and themes used in A Doll's House are analyzed. Seven ...
works, that Ibsen had a unique take on women. In fact, Baker-White notes that Ibsens realist plays had been subverted due to the u...
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 presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
In ten pages this paper discusses issues of blackmail, abandonment, marital rape, and divorce within the context of the role justi...
society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...
In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...