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Making a Movie Out of Henrik Ibsen's Play A Doll's House

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

Child Fantasy and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In six pages this paper examines how the play of children is metaphorically depicted in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Three sou...

Literature and Free Will v. Fate

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...

Feminist Ideology in Henrik Ibsen's, A Doll's House

This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...

Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House and the Theme of Confinement

The ways in which confinement in its various forms such as psychological, social, financial, and emotional are thematically repres...

Reflections of the Storyteller and Author in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages this paper discusses how in The Yellow Wallpaper the storyteller reflects author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Three so...

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and its Themes

faded by the slow-turning sunlight" (Gilman PG). Obviously, the wallpaper is not soothing and so the wallpaper, its color, and its...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Justice and the Law

In ten pages this paper discusses issues of blackmail, abandonment, marital rape, and divorce within the context of the role justi...

Insanity in Literature

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

Making a Difference Through Storytelling

who finds themself trapped with a, almost willingly, woman going insane. Twains "Huckleberry Finn" takes the reader with him along...

Suitability of the Title A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

coincidence and picturesque contrast" (A Dolls House) punctuated by his use of language plays a significant role in identifying No...

Nurture, Nature, and Gender Roles

a male, well, a male. There is no arguing with biological facts and figures in this context. However, having stated that, it is al...

Symbols and Themes in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In seven pages Ibsen's views on social morality as conveyed by the symbols and themes used in A Doll's House are analyzed. Seven ...

Marriage in the 19th Century According to Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages 19th century marriage and the woman's role within it are examined in a comparison of Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an ...

Suicide as a Result of Betrayal and Loss of Trust

In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...

Literary Sense of Time and Place

In five pages the images of time and place are explored in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett, 'My Antonia' by Willa Cather, '...

History and Literature

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

Madness and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

of this era, stereotyping the average female as prone to "hysterical" nervous disorders and the entire gender as "economically a n...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

Feminism as Seen in Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper

to appear more frequently. Eventually she locks herself in her room and tears the paper from the walls (Gilman, 1996; Yim, 1996). ...

Analysis of Five American Short Stories

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

Literary Psychological Growth and Spiritual Transformation

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

Successful Short Story Characteristics

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

Analyzing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper

to see that it is just the opposite, for she needs intellectual stimulation, something other than marriage and motherhood to help ...

Insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

a dutiful wife, but there is clearly no connection between the two, and in this one can see one of the most powerful foundations f...

Feminist Interpretations of Two Short Stories

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

"Indissoluble Matrimony" and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

in pay and in intimate relationships, is a fundamental part of feminist thinking; it is equality in personal relationships that wi...

American Literature: Realism

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...