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The ways in which confinement in its various forms such as psychological, social, financial, and emotional are thematically repres...
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 compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...
standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...
has been troubled for some time and they, at that instant, feel they would do anything to change it if only she would stay. But, t...
shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...
"Two years later the masterpiece Brand was produced and shortly after, he left Norway, spending the better part of his life in Ita...
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 ...
When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...
an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...
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...
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...
In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences in wifely roles between Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Oth...
hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...
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...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
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...
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...
than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...