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beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...

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

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...

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be ...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

her husband, but she commits fraud when she signs her fathers name to the bond (Ibsen, 2004). (We can assume that her father was w...

the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...

This essay offers analysis of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun" according to the principles of Gordon ...

works, that Ibsen had a unique take on women. In fact, Baker-White notes that Ibsens realist plays had been subverted due to the u...

In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...

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 ...

eye-opening realization that throughout her life, the men that ruled over her, first her father and then her husband, never actual...

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

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

that she has thoughts and ideas that are not necessarily normal for a simple woman. She has a fire, and that fire is the element o...

as "little skylark twittering." Her husband calls her "little featherbrain," "little scatterbrain," "squirrel sulking", and "song ...

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, ...

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 ...

he looked at the possibility that a woman, finding herself in a loveless marriage and living a life as an overprotected wife, was ...

"Two years later the masterpiece Brand was produced and shortly after, he left Norway, spending the better part of his life in Ita...

particularly like the characters of Christine and Krogstad, especially since Krogstad is essentially blackmailing Nora, we see tha...

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

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...

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

In six pages this essay considers the connection between Nora's self esteem and the bird imagery Ibsen employs in A Doll's House. ...

In five pages this paper argues that love is not always a marriage prerequisite as portrayed in A Doll's House. There are no othe...

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...