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own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...

In six pages this paper examines how the play of children is metaphorically depicted in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Three sou...

In ten pages this paper discusses issues of blackmail, abandonment, marital rape, and divorce within the context of the role justi...

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 analyzes casting within the context of the plays A Doll's House, Antigone, The Cherry Orchard, Three Tal...

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...

first of all, the deep love of Othello and Desdemona, as well as the villainy of Iago. Desdemona establishes her love for Othello ...

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...

In six pages the deceptiveness of appearances is examined in a consideration of the journeys each of these short story protagonist...

before. When she was 17 and he was 20, he asked her to marry him. Thrilled, she said yes. But there was another man in the househ...

great asset, but his personality is even more charming. He is very open and outgoing, not because it makes people trust him or ope...

if it was straightened, which is viewed as an "act of self-hatred or conformity" (Negron-Muntaner 45). Within this cultural framew...

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

she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...

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

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

serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...

She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...

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...

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

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

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

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

yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...

and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...