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serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...

In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nora Helmer as featured in Henrik Ibsen's social drama A Doll's House. ...

her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...

her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...

of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...

after the stories are done. In the beginning of both of the novels the women seem to be relatively happy, and perhaps ignorant, ...

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 ...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

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...

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...

her own backbone and eventually would have left Torvald. Krogstad does not purposely cause the marital strife, some would argue, b...

the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...

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...

This paper examines concepts of paradox and passion, women's social position, and individual autonomy in the philosophy of Soren K...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

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 ...

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...

This essay asserts that Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" presents a convincing argument that a woman could be herself, that is, an au...

an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

and the people they know are not perfect. This offers us realism in a very powerful manner. At the same time, however, it is also ...

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between society and the individual as represented by the female protagonists of...

This paper discusses women's need for their own identity as considered by Anton Chekhov in Three Sisters and Henrik Ibsen in A Dol...

This paper compares how masculinity is portrayed in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and in A Doll's House by H...