Essays 61 - 90
husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...
than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...
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 ...
than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...
"Two years later the masterpiece Brand was produced and shortly after, he left Norway, spending the better part of his life in Ita...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...
the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...
society (Books and Writers). "He did not much believe in the possibility of individual freedom but emphasized the importance of ex...
an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...
if it was straightened, which is viewed as an "act of self-hatred or conformity" (Negron-Muntaner 45). Within this cultural framew...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
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...
he looked at the possibility that a woman, finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was ...
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...
normal and average. Nora is a woman who is seen as nothing more than a simple creature. Her husband often refers to her in cond...
and changes his mind. He will not sacrifice his only daughter because of Menelaus unfaithful wife. (The impetus behind the Trojan ...
serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...
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 ...
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...
has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...
She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...
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...
standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...
laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...