YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Social Criticism and Irony in Plays by Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen
Essays 211 - 223
Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...
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...
as "little skylark twittering." Her husband calls her "little featherbrain," "little scatterbrain," "squirrel sulking", and "song ...
and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...
In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...
quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...
societal reminders from kith and kin on what she should have done. In the end the audience is left with the same awful sense of de...
In 8 pages this paper contrasts and compares the characters of Janie and Olenka in these works by Hurston and Chekhov. Two source...
collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...
This essay pertains the way in which Chekhov uses nature and atmosphere to underscore characterization in The Duel. Seven pages in...
that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...