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serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...

beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...

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

many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...

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...

do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

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

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...

laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...

him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for his position. He puts the blam...

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

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...

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...

Nora Helmer and Hedda Gabler are contrasted and compared in 5 pages in terms of life perceptions, relationships, intellect, and pe...

should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

In five pages this paper considers society's dualism as represented in Ibsen's social drama. One source is listed in the bibliogr...

The ways in which confinement in its various forms such as psychological, social, financial, and emotional are thematically repres...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

partner. He makes frequent animal comparisons to his wife, referring to her as "my little lark" (43) or "my squirrel" (44). Thes...

himself as child was to give puppet performances, for his siblings as well as for other children in the town. Think of how a pupp...

In five pages this paper examines this strong and unconventional female character. There are no other sources listed....

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

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...