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for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...
In three pages this paper compares and contrasts three major female theatrical protagonists Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Medea...
not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...
enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...
has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the charact...
hotel owners son Robert, whose role in life seems to be entertaining the young wives while maintaining a safe enough distance so n...
This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
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...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...
the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...
than an idiot, indicating that he had no real knowledge of who she was. However, as the story progresses she slowly began to emerg...
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...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
This paper discusses women's need for their own identity as considered by Anton Chekhov in Three Sisters and Henrik Ibsen in A Dol...
In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...
part of his micro-manipulation of Noras behavior. For example, he jokingly calls her his "Miss Sweet Tooth" as he grills her about...
In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....
In four pages this paper contrasts and compares how the unattainable is represented in Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man,' Henrik Ibs...
In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences in wifely roles between Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Oth...
quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...
the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...
In 5 pages this paper discusses Henrik Ibsen's obscure play and considers how this theme is reflected in the drama's characters. ...
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...
In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...