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Essays 91 - 120
In seven pages this paper analyzes Ibsen's social play in terms of its dualities represented in plot and characterization. Six so...
particularly like the characters of Christine and Krogstad, especially since Krogstad is essentially blackmailing Nora, we see tha...
beginning of the story she is simply a doll, a pretty thing that plays her role as the good wife and mother. As one author notes, ...
as "little skylark twittering." Her husband calls her "little featherbrain," "little scatterbrain," "squirrel sulking", and "song ...
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...
and changes his mind. He will not sacrifice his only daughter because of Menelaus unfaithful wife. (The impetus behind the Trojan ...
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 develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...
"Two years later the masterpiece Brand was produced and shortly after, he left Norway, spending the better part of his life in Ita...
She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of ...
the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...
she is essentially immersed in her role. But, as the story develops we begin to wonder if all of these characteristics of being ch...
of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...
for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...
and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the works by Henrik Ibsen and Franz Kafka in a consideration of each author's pres...
This essay indicates that Barry Witham and John Lutterbie's Marxist analysis of "The Doll's House" is accurate and provides insigh...
with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...
the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...
She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...
society (Books and Writers). "He did not much believe in the possibility of individual freedom but emphasized the importance of ex...
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...
In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...
House shocked audiences when it first appeared with its depiction of a woman who refused to live by societys "rules." This paper d...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...
The common theme of keeping secrets links these two characters in this five page paper. There are no other bibliographic sources ...
with that described in her "Vindication". Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Dolls House" in 1879 during a time when womens rights were ...