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coincidence and picturesque contrast" (A Dolls House) punctuated by his use of language plays a significant role in identifying No...

in reality is not one of the "good girls." She is living an illusion. Her need for self improvement has reached an emergency lev...

young boss, Howard Wagner, about easier sales work in town. However, it soon becomes apparent that Willy is to be discarded by h...

self realization, self expression and self reliance were all an aspect of the awareness of the self within the natural world. The ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

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

in meaning between all individuals. Both Garfinkel and Goffman recognize that there are both verbal and non-verbal compon...

Loman in Death of a Salesman is a rather pathetic character. He is average, almost typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is som...

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

to gain his own independence despite his fathers quelling influence; however, this is never to be for the thirty-four-year-old ner...

Loman has limited intelligence or at least that seems to be the case; the point is arguable however. The story itself, as origin...

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...

in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...

included intelligence, depth, compassion, and integrity. It was now a dream that focused primarily on material success and the dre...

he looked at the possibility that a woman, finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was ...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

importance to his life, telling her, "Youre my foundation and my support" (18). Everything he did was ultimately rooted in love f...

normal and average. Nora is a woman who is seen as nothing more than a simple creature. Her husband often refers to her in cond...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

beginning of the story she is simply a doll, a pretty thing that plays her role as the good wife and mother. As one author notes, ...

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...

With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

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

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...