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hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

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...

the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...

to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...

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...

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

Nora Helmer and Hedda Gabler are contrasted and compared in 5 pages in terms of life perceptions, relationships, intellect, and pe...

they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...

In 5 pages this paper discusses Henrik Ibsen's obscure play and considers how this theme is reflected in the drama's characters. ...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

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

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...

of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...

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 paper examines the reasons behind Nora Helmer's actions and how they revolve around the constrictions of the patriarchal soci...

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...

This 5 page paper discusses the portrayal of marriage in three plays: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen; The Marriage of Olype by Aug...

In five pages this paper examines how the audience is represented by the chorus in Sophocles' tragic play Antigone. Four source...

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...

This essay pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...

little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

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...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...