Through Nora in A Doll's House, Ibsen shows how women at the time had to appear economically dependent, in order to appease the fragile male ego, though many secretly harboured a desire for financial independence. ... Through the setting of A Doll's House, a single room in which all events take place, Ibsen may be showing the reader here that, as society expected women to remain in the house, as dolls' to be played with by men, they are often kept in a locked box', this suffocating atmosphere causing women to feel isolated from outside society, and become desirous of free...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire- and Ibsen's "A Doll's House-: Dramatic Conflict in the Male/Female Relationship In any narrative, the development of the plot and the creation of compelling characters depends on a single literary element: the presence of conflict. ... It is the masterful portrayal of this age-old conflict between the sexes that serves as the dramatic centerpiece in both Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire- and Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House."" ... In "A Doll's House,"" Henrik Ibsen similarly centers the dramatic conflict...

• Word Count: 2278
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Men are masculine because they hunt and fish, while women are feminine because they take care of the house. Men are masculine because they fix the things the women break when they are taking after the house, and women are masculine because they play with the children to distract them from the words the man is uttering when he cannot fix what is broken. ... Young boys play with cars, play war, play fight, and like taking things apart, while girls like to play with dolls, imagine they are somewhere else, like to be social and like to look cute. ...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bouchard was immediately taken back and later expressed on social media her outrage for her athletic accomplishments being overlooked in the interview and for her being treated like a doll on display instead of a respected athlete. ... For example, young girls are supposed to play with dolls and play house where they take on maternal roles. ...

• Word Count: 2215
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The representation of women as being dominated, lacking independence and tied to the role of motherhood carried on through the rest of the 1800's in the form of plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A Dolls House, written shortly after what was considered to be the mid-Victorian period, 1879, it tells of Nora's fight against her husband's dominance, and her struggle to break the chains of social standards and rules, this was a period when women were expected to get married and raise children, they did not have a say in, or responsibility outside the home, this situation was typical ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Eva Luna noticed, the life in the house of La Senora was like "floating on a cloud-; days and nights changed places, sweets substituted regular meals, smell of perfumes successfully covered the truth about where the money was coming from (126). ... I think that almost in every aspect of her life La Senora was a bit superficial, and even her affection for Eva reminded me of the way she treated that Spanish doll that they kept on the bed in the apartment. ...

• Word Count: 2213
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate