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

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

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...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

This essay offers analysis of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun" according to the principles of Gordon ...

This essay pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...

eye-opening realization that throughout her life, the men that ruled over her, first her father and then her husband, never actual...

coincidence and picturesque contrast" (A Dolls House) punctuated by his use of language plays a significant role in identifying No...

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...

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...

In ten pages this paper discusses issues of blackmail, abandonment, marital rape, and divorce within the context of the role justi...

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 seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

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 ...

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

"Two years later the masterpiece Brand was produced and shortly after, he left Norway, spending the better part of his life in Ita...

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, ...

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

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

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

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

they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...

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

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

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

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...

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

particularly like the characters of Christine and Krogstad, especially since Krogstad is essentially blackmailing Nora, we see tha...