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her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...
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...
This essay asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...
This essay pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...
when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...
of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...
is certain he will. Nora then discloses how she borrowed the money for their trip to Italy and has been struggling to pay it back ...
In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...
her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
and his life. He does not allow, or expect her to be anything more. He berates her like a child for spending money and for eating ...
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...
her husband, but she commits fraud when she signs her fathers name to the bond (Ibsen, 2004). (We can assume that her father was w...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...
the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...
the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...
coincidence and picturesque contrast" (A Dolls House) punctuated by his use of language plays a significant role in identifying No...
that she has thoughts and ideas that are not necessarily normal for a simple woman. She has a fire, and that fire is the element o...
than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...
works, that Ibsen had a unique take on women. In fact, Baker-White notes that Ibsens realist plays had been subverted due to the u...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
In ten pages this paper discusses issues of blackmail, abandonment, marital rape, and divorce within the context of the role justi...
society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...
In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...
This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...
eye-opening realization that throughout her life, the men that ruled over her, first her father and then her husband, never actual...