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Gurov's Dilemma in The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov

In three pages this paper considers Gurov's change in attitude and his discovery that with love comes responsibility and that this...

Zora Neale Hurston and Henrik Ibsen on the Individual and Society

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between society and the individual as represented by the female protagonists of...

Harriet Wilson, Henrik Ibsen, Female Oppression and Self Integration

In five pages this paper discusses the problems of self integration between black and white women in a consideration of the oppres...

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

In a paper consisting of five pages the playwright's life is discussed and then his play is examined in order to determine that 'U...

Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

and how it reflected the changes in Russian society and government around the end of the nineteenth century. However, before addr...

A Doll's House, Oedipus, Othello, and Family Conflicts

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

Society and Women's Place According to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henrik Ibsen

part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...

Freudian Psychology and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

those who do not stop to examine their existence. For example, Americans do not often think of their historical past save as somet...

Malevolent Characters and the Catalysts Represented by Their Actions

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

Hedda Gabler by Ibsen: Culture of the Time

"terrible grand in her ways" (Ibsen I). Hedda is perhaps everything they assumed she would be. She is arrogant and above these p...

A Doll's House Examined Critically

an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...

'The Lady with the Dog' by Anton Chekhov

he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...

Literature and Culture in Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, and Amy Tan

her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that ...

Inclusion in the Contemporary Literary Canon, Anton Chekhov

This research paper/essay provides an argument that Chekhov deserves his place in the literary canon, providing a brief overview o...

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

Ibsen and Shakespeare/Doll's House and Much Ado About Nothing

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

A Critical Look at A Doll's House

yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...

Early Feminist Writings by Chopin and Ibsen

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

Irony in No Exit by Sartre

the characters, in fact, notes that they are there without thought on the part of whoever put them together as they state, it is "...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

Shelley’s Ozymandias

the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...

Nora and the "Wonderful Thing"

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...

Henrik Ibsen: Developing His Characters

leaves, but in Hedda, both Eilert and Hedda die. In his introduction to The Feast at Solhoug, which came in for its share of cri...

Analysis: “The Master Builder”

colorless and so the arrival of Hilda is compared to the arrival of a "radiant apparition" (Herford, 1909, p. 283). Hilda, says He...

Knowledge Motif in All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Bleak Human Condition in Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

Empowerment in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Medea by Euripides

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