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into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...

narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...

in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...

reside," with the house representative or symbolic of the society as a whole (Goloversic). If we picture the house as society we ...

upon her every which way she may turn, reminding her that because she is of the female gender and not of the most prominent of soc...

women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...

have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...

and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...

In five pages Gilman's story and Gardner's novel are compared and contrasted with the focus being upon the protagonist's position ...

In five pages this paper considers society's dualism as represented in Ibsen's social drama. One source is listed in the bibliogr...

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

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...

in this case. The setting of the plays could also be associated with the setting that relates to money. In both plays one of the...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

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

of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...

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

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

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 ...

her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...

in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...

In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...

the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...

In 5 pages this paper discusses Henrik Ibsen's obscure play and considers how this theme is reflected in the drama's characters. ...

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...