YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Social Power and Gender Themes in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Essays 61 - 90
husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...
laboratory tests!"(Ibsen, 71). This constant tearing down of Nora, it can be assumed serves several purposes for Torvald. Firstly,...
In 9 pages the feminist manifesto characteristics of this social drama by Henrik Ibsen are analyzed. There are 3 sources cited in...
In five pages this paper examines the social dramas of August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen in a consideration of modernism classifi...
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 ...
In five pages this play in three acts is analyzed in its representation of themes emotional warfare, power, and sex....
In 5 pages this paper analyzes the different stress reactions of protagonists Willy Loman and Nora Helmer in these social dramas b...
follow; and without irony, there would exist no sense of the dramatic. II. CHARACTERIZATION In Ibsens A Doll House, the characte...
In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....
same as if it were a dolls house, it is built on illusion and fantasy. Within the dolls house Nora become the doll, possibly livin...
intuitive sense of a subject, but keep it to himself for fear of being made to feel "girly"-intuition is after all supposedly conf...
of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
of the manipulative nature of Hedda and how she uses those around her for her own selfish purposes. She wants to live a comfortabl...
In five pages this paper discusses how in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and in Ibsen's Ghosts the playwrights are able to convey so...
In ten pages this research paper contrasts and compares the neuroses that characterizes the protagonists Edna, Hedda, and Emma in ...
In five pages this paper examines how the characters of these plays are influenced by their fathers and paternal sins. There are ...
In five pages this paper examines how humiliation is used as a theme in Ibsen's play and Hawthorne's novel. Two sources are cited...
In 5 pages this paper examines the feminist aspects of these plays in an analysis of the plot structures of each. There are no ot...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...
In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...
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...
should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...
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...
In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...
This paper addresses the ways in which Ibsen's social, literary work, A Doll's House provides a retrospective of feminist ideology...