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Essays 61 - 90
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, ...
as "little skylark twittering." Her husband calls her "little featherbrain," "little scatterbrain," "squirrel sulking", and "song ...
She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...
she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...
she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...
the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...
This essay asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...
This essay indicates that Barry Witham and John Lutterbie's Marxist analysis of "The Doll's House" is accurate and provides insigh...
This essay pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...
with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...
are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...
her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...
One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...
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 ...
than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...
and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the works by Henrik Ibsen and Franz Kafka in a consideration of each author's pres...
The common theme of keeping secrets links these two characters in this five page paper. There are no other bibliographic sources ...
in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
This essay consists of six pages and compares the social oppression the wives in each story experiences. There is no bibliography...
This paper consists of five pages and considers Victorian masculinity in Ibsen's characterization of Torvald Helmer and Modernist ...
In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...
In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences in wifely roles between Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Oth...
hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
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...