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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...

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...

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

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

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

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

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

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

has been troubled for some time and they, at that instant, feel they would do anything to change it if only she would stay. But, t...

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...

he looked at the possibility that a woman, finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...