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of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...
two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...
when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...
and demure, that he will take care of her. But as the play goes on, it becomes clear that she is far stronger than he is. She has ...
of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...
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...
he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...
William Shephard described his horror at witnessing this. "Thud-dead; thud-dead;...sixty-two thud-deads" (Leap for life). Shephard...
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...
works, that Ibsen had a unique take on women. In fact, Baker-White notes that Ibsens realist plays had been subverted due to the u...
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...
This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...
In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
In 5 pages this paper assesses the realism of the premise of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and its conclusion. There are 4 sourc...
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...
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...
relate to the inquisitive Alice who illustrated that an adventurous spirit was not limited to the male gender. Three years later,...
eye-opening realization that throughout her life, the men that ruled over her, first her father and then her husband, never actual...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...
of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...