YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Self Image of Women in the Works of Kate Chopin and Henrik Ibsen
Essays 181 - 210
shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...
there are at least servants that are black, if not actual slaves. This would indicate, for the most part, that the setting is the ...
husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...
53). However, when he discovers Nora and her involvement in certain business matters, he is forced to realize that she has done fa...
beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...
an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...
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...
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...
many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...
On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...
Chinese culture recognized womens inherent value. This is not to say, however, that women - even at their most esteemed positions...
feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...
his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...
"terrible grand in her ways" (Ibsen I). Hedda is perhaps everything they assumed she would be. She is arrogant and above these p...
is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...
various measures, the first step that the researchers took was to compare maltreatment items that were administered in the lab ses...
and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...
an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...
(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...
were twittering in the eaves"(Chopin). The other indication that she will be experiencing an ambivalence toward his death is...
her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...
seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...
until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...
and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...
A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...
and the people they know are not perfect. This offers us realism in a very powerful manner. At the same time, however, it is also ...
Myop finds herself in a "gloomy" little cove. This striking change in imagery foreshadows Myops discovery of a decomposing body. ...
fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...
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...