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Escaping into Nature Through Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how escaping into nature is thematically developed in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, William Faulkn...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Literature and Cultural Stereotypes

throughout the text. In presenting another way of examining these perspectives, we present the words of Drucker who states that...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and the Importance of the Financial Contract Between Krogstad and Nora Helmer

is able to whisk her husband off to a warmer climate, which has the desired effect and Torvald regains his good health. However, ...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin and its Themes

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

Heroines in Literature and How They Have Evolved

than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...

Characterization and Ibsen's A Doll's House and Williams' The Glass Menagerie

and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...

Animal and Bird Symbolism in “A Doll’s House”

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

Ibsen's "A Doll's House" - Masculinity And Marriage

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

Marxist Perspective, Ibsen's The Doll's House

This essay indicates that Barry Witham and John Lutterbie's Marxist analysis of "The Doll's House" is accurate and provides insigh...

Personal Growth and Ibsen's "A Doll's House"

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

Ibsen's A Doll's House, Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Human Limitation

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the works by Henrik Ibsen and Franz Kafka in a consideration of each author's pres...

Relationships Between Men and Women in Literature and Throughout History

sources on this topic in order to see if the literary view represents an accurate picture. The home and the marketplace were not...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...

Examples of Feminist Criticism in Wharton and Chopin

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

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...

Henrik Ibsen and Emile Zola on Naturalism

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

A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll's House and the Theme of Appearance versus Reality

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

Strong Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Sophocles

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

The Concept of the Best Society

She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...

Patriarchy and Isben's A Doll House

This paper examines the reasons behind Nora Helmer's actions and how they revolve around the constrictions of the patriarchal soci...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

Comparing Macbeth and A Doll’s House and the Appearance of Reality

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

Comparing Othello and A Doll’s House and the Appearance of Reality

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Marriage and Independence in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

novel The Awakening provides insight into the marriages of Edna Pontellier and her friend Adele Ratignolle. Examination of these m...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' in Terms of Conflict, Theme, and Character

In seven pages the ways in which the author develops the theme through character conflict are discussed. There are 3 sources in t...