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A Doll’s House and A Raisin in the Sun

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...

Nora in A Doll’s House

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

Feminist Ideology in Ibsen's, A Doll's House

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

Act II: Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

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 ...

Character and Setting in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

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

Symbolism and Henrik Ibsen

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...

Ibsen and Glaspell

overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...

Societal Struggles of Women

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

Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Feminist Views in 'A Doll's House'

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

Nora Helmer's Innocence in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

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

Marriage Views of Henrik Ibsen

works, that Ibsen had a unique take on women. In fact, Baker-White notes that Ibsens realist plays had been subverted due to the u...

Contemporary European Drama Classification

In five pages this paper examines the social dramas of August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen in a consideration of modernism classifi...

Social Power and Gender Themes in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper examines the themes of social power and gender as they are represented in the drama by Henrik Ibsen. The...

The Kiss by Anton Chekhov

In five pages the adaptation and overall content of the story as it relates to The Kiss by Anton Chekhov is discussed by the write...

Reactions to Stress in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

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

Rights for Women in the 19th Century Play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In 9 pages the feminist manifesto characteristics of this social drama by Henrik Ibsen are analyzed. There are 3 sources cited in...

Tragic Personality of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

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...

An Analysis of The Cherry Orchard

her home, even if that is done in a happy context, there is a sense of nostalgia. There is also a sense of loss. There is for exam...

'The Lady with the Pet Dog' by Anton Chekhov

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Social Secession

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

Family Conflicts in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and William Shakespeare's Othello

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...

George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

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

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

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

Themes of Human Limitation in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'

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

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, King Lear by William Shakespeare, and Sacrifice

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...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Tutorial Letter on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

has been troubled for some time and they, at that instant, feel they would do anything to change it if only she would stay. But, t...

Comparative Analysis of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

53). However, when he discovers Nora and her involvement in certain business matters, he is forced to realize that she has done fa...