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

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...

in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...

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...

Trembling clearly demonstrates the fact that faith needs to go beyond such an ethical system in order to be legitimate, an attribu...

In five pages this essay provides a comparison of two passages in Fear and Trembling regarding Kierkegaard's Abraham theory and co...

by Kierkegaard as the individual who lives in response to God, no matter what appearances may be. As an example of the Knight of F...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these men's concepts regarding personal development, selfhood, despair, and fait...

his or her own singular importance. "The ethical is the universal, and as such it is again the divine. One has therefore a right ...

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

between ethics and religion.4 Because this seems whimsical at best and cumbersome, even nonsensical at worst, Im very glad to hea...

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

sweet unto me" (II, I). It seems that Augustine wants to review the past in order to share the journey to the present, and to rem...

when he has found what he sought, he wanders before every mans door with his song and with his oration, that all may admire the he...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

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

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...

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...

chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...