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in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

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 shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...

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...

than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...

to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...

and demure, that he will take care of her. But as the play goes on, it becomes clear that she is far stronger than he is. She has ...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the evolution of characters the Underground Man in Notes from the Underground, Gre...

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

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the different stress reactions of protagonists Willy Loman and Nora Helmer in these social dramas b...

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...

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

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

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

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...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

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...

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

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

an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...

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

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

In 5 pages this paper examines the feminist aspects of these plays in an analysis of the plot structures of each. There are no ot...

In 5 pages this paper assesses the realism of the premise of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and its conclusion. There are 4 sourc...

This 5 page paper discusses the portrayal of marriage in three plays: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; The Marriage of Olype by Aug...

This paper compares how masculinity is portrayed in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and in A Doll's House by H...

This paper discusses women's need for their own identity as considered by Anton Chekhov in Three Sisters and Henrik Ibsen in A Dol...

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between society and the individual as represented by the female protagonists of...