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This paper discusses women's need for their own identity as considered by Anton Chekhov in Three Sisters and Henrik Ibsen in A Dol...
part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...
one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...
In six pages this paper examines how the play of children is metaphorically depicted in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Three sou...
In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...
of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...
her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...
an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
that she has thoughts and ideas that are not necessarily normal for a simple woman. She has a fire, and that fire is the element o...
husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
53). However, when he discovers Nora and her involvement in certain business matters, he is forced to realize that she has done fa...
many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
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...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...
Nora Helmer and Hedda Gabler are contrasted and compared in 5 pages in terms of life perceptions, relationships, intellect, and pe...
should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...
himself as child was to give puppet performances, for his siblings as well as for other children in the town. Think of how a pupp...
In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...
partner. He makes frequent animal comparisons to his wife, referring to her as "my little lark" (43) or "my squirrel" (44). Thes...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...
him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for his position. He puts the blam...
In 5 pages this paper examines the feminist aspects of these plays in an analysis of the plot structures of each. There are no ot...