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husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...
an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
in this case. The setting of the plays could also be associated with the setting that relates to money. In both plays one of the...
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 pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...
her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...
her husband, but she commits fraud when she signs her fathers name to the bond (Ibsen, 2004). (We can assume that her father was w...
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...
her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
society (Books and Writers). "He did not much believe in the possibility of individual freedom but emphasized the importance of ex...
he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...
House shocked audiences when it first appeared with its depiction of a woman who refused to live by societys "rules." This paper d...
the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...
when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...
of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...
in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...
Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...
with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...
This essay presents a summation and analysis of Donald Margulies's two-act play "Dinner with Friends." Eight pages in length, one ...
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 society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...