Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is largely a story of the sacrifices of women in his society. There are three female characters in the play and it is no coincidence that they each represent a certain amount of female sacrifice in particular the sacrifice of some happiness in life for economic reasons. ... Although Anne-Marie is a minor character in the play her background is yet another example of the sacrifices faced by women throughout the story. ... Ibsen seems to send a message about the children of corrupt parents turning out with terrible flaws, and his ...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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