YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House and Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopins The Awakening
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In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...
hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
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. ...
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...
the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...
honesty, no such thing for anyone. She seeks happiness in many avenues of pursuit but she may well be unrealistic in all she pursu...
when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
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, ...
She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...
more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...
the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...
believed that "Authority, coercion are what is needed" as the "only way to manage a wife," and seemed unaware that the may have "c...
she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...
In five pages the significance of Edna to the novella by Kate Chopin and how she symbolically represents Victorian women's desire ...
In eight pages this paper considers how Kate Chopin portrayed the evolving role of women in her protagonist Edna Pontellier in The...
at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...
On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
This essay pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
In six pages this essay considers the connection between Nora's self esteem and the bird imagery Ibsen employs in A Doll's House. ...
In six pages this paper discusses the author's creation of the 'Other' soul as a way of expressing Creole political issues and how...