A Doll's House 2003 Assignment Explain how a playwright employs minor characters to establish the dominant values of a society in which the central character is marginalised. In "A Doll's House" Ibsen's bourgeois character Nora is suppressed by the nineteenth century patriarchy by which her husband Torvald and money lender Krogstad exercise against her to their advantages. ... At the end of scene three Nora expresses the truth she"d learned about her marriage, Torvald's character and her life in general. ... Linde was a revolutionary character who serves to highlight th...

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Every time a character enters or leaves a room, members of the audience can record the time of the event if they wanted to. It almost seems that the sequence of events are indexed by time and all the characters are forced to follow a set schedule. The fates of each character seem to be entrapped by a higher power, or as Gunning words it - the destiny-machine. ... In both Heidt's and Reed's cases, costume design is used to assign characters to their stereotypical gender roles, thus highlighting the power dynamics between the characters. The lighting techniques employed in this sequ...

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With the lost of independence the women of Hamlet take on the role as the weakest characters. ... Gertrude and Ophelia are minor but powerful characters in the play that Shakespeare focuses on. The women are able to demonstrate what Shakespeare believes their roles are and what kind of character they hold. ...

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However, in the tragedies of the fifth century, women were dominant major characters that were seen as heroines. ... The character of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus" Agamemnon is very masculine and is shown posses some male traits. ... Legally, an Athenian female remained a minor the whole of her life. ... Euripides Medea is one of the tragedies that shows a woman dominating the rest of the characters in the play. This female character throughout the play criticises the conditions of women and they way they were treated. ...

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The female characters are dressed in such way that they are forced to been inactive whereas the male characters' costumes are obviously made for the environment that the film was set in, as the clothes are worn and dusty and easy to move in. ... The first was Fay Wray in King Kong, a character renowned for her high pitched call of fear. ... Altaira's whole purpose of her character is that of a reward, to be fought over by the hero and the evil robot. ... In the original film, which was made in the late 1970's, the character Ripley, is part of the crew in charge of a space-shi...

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Through means of reversal, Chaucer leads his main female character down the road of maleness. ... The reader first meets the pilgrims in the General Prologue (GP), where Chaucer provides subtle indications to the type of character he describes. ... Chaucer has come under critical disapproval for not adhering to socially prescribed gender roles for feminity in his character WB. ... How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. ... The one weakness that comes forward in the WB character is when she steps out of the male role back into the fema...

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Women are clearly placed in demeaning roles, compared to the male character's, women are seen as inferior creatures that are dependant on men. ... In order to do this all the male characters exhibit cleverness, cunning, bravery and self-reliance. ... Although the traditional Folk-Tales presented woman as strong and competent, the fairytales of modern culture present the female in passive, minor roles and this in turn suggests that society only values women if they are beautiful, wealthy and appear docile and obedient. ... A passive, beautiful heroine gains reward through her suffering ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

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