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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 presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...

is able to whisk her husband off to a warmer climate, which has the desired effect and Torvald regains his good health. However, ...

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

In five pages this paper examines this strong and unconventional female character. There are no other sources listed....

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...

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

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

In five pages these female protagonists are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

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

the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...

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

The common theme of keeping secrets links these two characters in this five page paper. There are no other bibliographic sources ...

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...

she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...