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When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...
In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...
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...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...
beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...
who went before, without any question as to why things are accomplished in any certain order, the time for the Enlightenment symbo...
of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...
In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....
In five pages this paper considers the way these playwrights revealed social criticism through the irony of their respective plays...
seriously ill and needs a change in climate to regain his health, Nora is forced to take drastic measures in order to finance such...
her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...
overlook the intimate clues that illustrate the wife killed him. The women, who have accompanied the men, slowly put the pieces to...
to represent his wifes ideal, and she was expected to follow his lead without question. In societys view, a woman was incapable o...
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 ...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
in this case. The setting of the plays could also be associated with the setting that relates to money. In both plays one of the...
after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...
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...
her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...
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 ...
is a social climber; and she has no respect for her husband or his scholarship, finding it and him both incredibly boring. She is ...
of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...
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...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...
In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...
are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...