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Ibsen's "A Doll's House" - Masculinity And Marriage
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12 pages in length. Gender construct, built around the patriarchal perspective, has long been a principle focus of theater and cinema. The extent to which the issues of masculinity and femininity are regularly used as central themes is both grand and far-reaching; that such depictions have become fundamentally stereotypical in nature speaks to the dilemma of truly being able to define masculinity within a social context. Ibsen's A Doll's House is one of many theatrical illustrations of this observable fact in the way it pits the dominating husband against the submissive wife and spotlights the misery she experiences from being an emotional prisoner in her own marriage. While these social constructs have changed to a great degree since Ibsen penned his play, there is still enough residual support of this patriarchal ideology to warrant it ongoing in the twenty-first century institution of marriage. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Ibsen's "A Doll's House": Suitable Title?
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5 pages in length. The irony of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House – and thereby justifying the suitability of titling his play the same – is discovered early on in the story by way of the author's shrewd use of language, as one realizes the inner conflict that resides within the main character. Nora is never quite able to find her real purpose in life, despite the fact that she spends her entire existence attempting to do so. Both "unmade [and] incomplete" (Steele 01E), Nora discovers that "everything is a lie, the whole society is a lie. She must go out and find the truth" (Steele 01E) both about herself and those around her in order to gain the courage she does not possess being locked away in her safe, secure yet stifling "doll house" of a life. Bibliography lists 4 sources
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Ibsen's A Doll's House
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The duality of life often takes unexpected turns in literature. The juxtaposition of good and evil, honest and dishonest and the real and the imaginary become the foundation for the building of a character, plot and the tension that brings an audience into the work. This 7 page paper argues that in A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, there are elements of all of these dualities in which the audience becomes enmeshed and the characters defined. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Ibsen's Nora and Sophocles' Antigone
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This 7 page report discusses the idea that there are definite similarities between the primary female characters -- Nora and Antigone -- in "The Doll's House" and "Antigone." Bibliography lists only the two primary sources.
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Ibsen's The Dolls House; A Representation of the Dualistic Nature of Society
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This 5 page paper considers the way in which this well known play demonstrates the dualistic nature of society at both an individual level as well as on the wider scale. The roles of Nora, Torvald and even Krogstad emphasise that they live simultaneously in different worlds of their own making, it is the extent to which they dominate that is the influence in their lives, not whether or not they exist. The bibliography sites 1 source.
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Ibsen’s Ghosts and Freudian Psychology
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A 3 page paper which examines the parallels that exist between Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” and Freudian concepts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Ichabod Crane vs. Brom van Brunt
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This 3 page paper explores the rivalry between Ichabod Crane and Brom van Brunt in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." It also explores their relationship with Katrina van Tassel, and contrasts them with one another. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Idealism in Eliot's "Silas Marner"
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A five page paper tracing the various levels of idealism in George Eliot's novel. The paper concludes that Silas' original idealism is warped into materialism when he is falsely accused of a crime, but then his faith in humanity returns through the help of a child. Bibliography lists two sources.
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Idealism/The Awakening & The Great Gatsby
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A 5 page essay that argues that Kate Chopin in The Awakening and F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby each create protagonists who are tragically doomed due to their idealism. Chopin's female protagonist Edna Pontellier's idealism concerns her expectations concerning her role as a woman in nineteenth century patriarchal culture. Edna cannot reconcile the reality of her life with her idealized vision of what she thinks life should be. Likewise, Jay Gatsby has an idealized perspective on reality. Putting his faith in the American Dream, which turns out to be an illusion, Gatsby can never fully achieves his vision of idealized love. No additional sources cited.
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Idealized Children In Romantic Literature
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The romantic writers of the Victorian era included such notables as William Wordsworth, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. This 10 page paper argues that, within the Romantic literature, the child became the metaphor for society, including social stratification, changing gender roles and the loss of innocence in a world quickly becoming reliant on technology. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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