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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

but she doesnt seem to realize it. One of the very first scenes between them the reader realizes that he is going to be a dominee...

more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...

point that in order to become complete, we must learn more about ourselves and who we are. In order to do this, we need to experi...

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

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

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

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...

In two pages this play is analyzed in terms of its representation of gender roles as manifested in the neurotic Hedda Gabler. The...

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

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

society (Books and Writers). "He did not much believe in the possibility of individual freedom but emphasized the importance of ex...

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

she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...

him to commit suicide. Judge Brack discerns Heddas duplicity in Lovborgs downfall and insinuates that he will hold this over her. ...

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...

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...

In five pages this paper examines how within her award winning play Lorraine Hansberry makes the most of the symbolism literary de...

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

- Toby and his mother are escaping an abusive situation (one that, ironically enough, Tobys mother was used to, having dealt with ...

in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...

Appreciating the goodness of life in all senses -- mentally, physically, spiritually -- is what Taoism strives to achieve. These ...