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the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...
In five pages this paper examines how the characters of these plays are influenced by their fathers and paternal sins. There are ...
Culture is the sum total of characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people. Our culture tells us what is acceptable...
of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...
This essay pertains to Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and discusses the character of Nora. Five pages in length, four sources are cited...
normal and average. Nora is a woman who is seen as nothing more than a simple creature. Her husband often refers to her in cond...
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 ...
The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...
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...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
This essay offers analysis of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun" according to the principles of Gordon ...
with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...
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 ...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...
organizations unconscious beliefs, perceptions, thoughts and feelings. Changing culture cannot be done by edict, but estab...
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...
leaves, but in Hedda, both Eilert and Hedda die. In his introduction to The Feast at Solhoug, which came in for its share of cri...
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 ...
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...
colorless and so the arrival of Hilda is compared to the arrival of a "radiant apparition" (Herford, 1909, p. 283). Hilda, says He...
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...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...