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In nine pages this play analysis examines how the major characters' sense of duty is represented by their choices. Four sources a...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...
those who do not stop to examine their existence. For example, Americans do not often think of their historical past save as somet...
In five pages this paper considers the way these playwrights revealed social criticism through the irony of their respective plays...
intensity of a hurricane, which dramatically sets the plays tone. Shakespeare recognized the importance of the ghost, which essen...
societal reminders from kith and kin on what she should have done. In the end the audience is left with the same awful sense of de...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
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...
Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...
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 ...
her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...
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...
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...
in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...
This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...
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...
In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...
This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...
the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...
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 ...