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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...

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

many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

yet to come in society at large. In Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, the protagonist is a woman who has in...

and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

with his manly independence, to know he owed me anything!" (Ibsen Act I). When Torvald finds out about her deception and the sca...

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 ...

more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...

laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...

him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for his position. He puts the blam...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

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

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

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

point that in order to become complete, we must learn more about ourselves and who we are. In order to do this, we need to experi...

partner. He makes frequent animal comparisons to his wife, referring to her as "my little lark" (43) or "my squirrel" (44). Thes...

himself as child was to give puppet performances, for his siblings as well as for other children in the town. Think of how a pupp...

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

should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...

In five pages this paper examines this strong and unconventional female character. There are no other sources listed....

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

In 9 pages the feminist manifesto characteristics of this social drama by Henrik Ibsen are analyzed. There are 3 sources cited in...

In three pages this paper discusses how Nora and Torwald represent women's status in society and in marriage. There is no bibliog...

hand, is a model of blunt decorum and steadiness, a man ruled by his class and conventions rather than feeling: basically, a guy ...

In seven pages this paper analyzes Ibsen's social play in terms of its dualities represented in plot and characterization. Six so...