YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Marion in On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein and Nora in A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen
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are both controversial in these regards. Where "A Dolls House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her disho...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
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 this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...
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...
The bleakness of the apartment also reflects the prospective bleakness of the survivors lives, since both have been left to cope w...
of their relationships with him. They meet in...
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...
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 six pages this essay considers the connection between Nora's self esteem and the bird imagery Ibsen employs in A Doll's House. ...
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 this paper examines this strong and unconventional female character. There are no other sources listed....
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, ...
as "little skylark twittering." Her husband calls her "little featherbrain," "little scatterbrain," "squirrel sulking", and "song ...
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...
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...
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...
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...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
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 ...
of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable 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...