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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...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...
This essay pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...
is able to whisk her husband off to a warmer climate, which has the desired effect and Torvald regains his good health. However, ...
She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
In five pages this paper examines a 'trunk theater' rural school production of Medea, the Greek tragedy by Euripides....
This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...
In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...
Medea would also benefit: "What luckier chance could I have come across than this, An exile to marry the daughter of the king? It ...
In six pages this essay considers the connection between Nora's self esteem and the bird imagery Ibsen employs in A Doll's House. ...
same as if it were a dolls house, it is built on illusion and fantasy. Within the dolls house Nora become the doll, possibly livin...
hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...
In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences in wifely roles between Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Oth...
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 norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...
her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
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...
in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...
in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
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, ...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...
of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...
In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...
husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...