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Essays 61 - 90
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...
an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...
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 ...
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...
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 seven pages Ibsen's views on social morality as conveyed by the symbols and themes used in A Doll's House are analyzed. Seven ...
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...
she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...
the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...
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 complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...
of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...
She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...
"Two years later the masterpiece Brand was produced and shortly after, he left Norway, spending the better part of his life in Ita...
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...
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 ...
serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...
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 ...
particularly like the characters of Christine and Krogstad, especially since Krogstad is essentially blackmailing Nora, we see tha...
more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...
they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...