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Comparing Marriage in Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' with Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'

with that described in her "Vindication". Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Dolls House" in 1879 during a time when womens rights were ...

Visual Illusions

stored and an unusual situation occurs, an optical illusion happens. There are four specific types of optical illusions. Ambiguou...

Illusion and Conflict in Paul's Case by Willa Cather

In five pages this paper examines illusion and conflict in a thematic analysis of Paul's Case by Willa Cather....

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

In eight pages this paper presents a literary analysis of Ibsen's play in a consideration of dramatic plot development, theme, lan...

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...

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...

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...

Self Discovery Journeys in the Works of Higuchi Ichiyo, Leo Tolstoy, and Henrik Ibsen

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Doll’s House as a Example of an Oppressive Marriage

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

Contemporary European Drama Classification

In five pages this paper examines the social dramas of August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen in a consideration of modernism classifi...

Feminist Views in 'A Doll's House'

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

Comparative Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll's House

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

Literature and Analysis of Character, Theme, Symbols, and Setting

indescribable evil. Symbols always present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Hawthornes repea...

17th and 19th Century Literature and the Depiction of Women

In five pages this paper discusses how women were depicted in Tartuffe by Moliere, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, and Hedda Ga...

Falseness or Mendacity in The Misanthrope, A Doll's House, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

In five pages this report examines the intensity of mendacity as featured in these literary works. There are no other sources lis...

'A Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield

In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of primary themes, plot, and characterization. There are no other sources li...

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...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Negron-Muntaner/Barbie's Hair

if it was straightened, which is viewed as an "act of self-hatred or conformity" (Negron-Muntaner 45). Within this cultural framew...

Literature and Society's Veils or Illusions

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

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...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

Analyzing An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...

Scission Whites Illusion

there is the perceptions of different colours (Anderson, 2003). The amount of light that reaches the eye from a viewed obje...

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...