Strange as it may seem, August Strindberg wrote both the characters of "The Stronger" with his wife Siri von Essen in mind. ... However, Strindberg wrote the play in anticipation of touring the show throughout Scandinavia meaning that Siri, who could only speak Swedish, would play the role of Miss Y abroad. Rather than learn the role of X in Danish, Siri played the seemingly weaker of the two, Miss Y. ... When Strindberg tells his wife that X is stronger it seems more of a push to get her to PLAY the role stronger than Y. ...

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He wrote his first song at the young age of 4 and went on to write his first opera at the age of 12. He played for people who were very important, like high priests. ... While other children were playing in the streets, Mozart was either practicing or playing in front of people. ... The people he used to play for, started to think he was a spoiled brat and immature. ... I think that he should of took his gift more seriously and not be so big headed, he should be greatful that he can play like that and compose music as well as he could. ...

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In the two plays, Oedipus and Hamlet are unconsciously exposed to incest. ... Although both plays are different, they both meet a tragic end. Shakespeare and Sophocles both wrote their plays to incorporate the long battle between good and evil. The events that occur in both plays show the power of fate, greed, and madness. ...

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In the two plays, Oedipus and Hamlet are unconsciously exposed to incest. ... Although both plays are different, they both meet a tragic end. Shakespeare and Sophocles both wrote their plays to incorporate the long battle between good and evil. The events that occur in both plays show the power of fate, greed, and madness....

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In the final scene of the play, wife and mother Nora leaves her husband and children in order to find herself. ... In response to criticism and fears surrounding the play, Ibsen wrote an alternate, "happy" ending, in which Nora sacrifices her own freedom to stay with her family. ... The play begins with Nora making preparations for Christmas. ... To have the play end with Nora staying home would not make much sense. If anything, the play seems to be building to Nora's suicide. ...

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Henrik Ibsen wrote a play in 1879 entitled "A Doll's House". ... During the play, you see Nora taking many roles in her quest to become her own person without belonging to anyone. ... The roles she plays are essential for her to make the move to leave her restricted lifestyle behind. ... Another one of Nora's sides we unveil as the play goes on is that of a mother to her three children. ... We see Nora playing the role of a friend to Christine Linde. ...

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Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House, a dramatic play, in 1879.The play takes place in a Norwegian town. ... Yet when it is discovered that Nora only plays the part of the good typical housewife who stays at home to please her husband, it is then understandable that she is living not for herself but to please others. ... Nora had to understand that she could not rely on Torvald for her identity the rest of her life, and Torvald too had to understand that Nora was a person and he had to treat her as an equal Doll House - symbolizes the tendency of the characters to play roles. ... Chr...

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Nanda explains how family reputation comes into play and how marriage has a big role in it. This friend also goes on to show superficially how looks also play a part. ... Looks certainly play a large role in arranged marriages. ... Nanda wrote this at the end to show us how important the matter of marrying into a good family is; to show that her friend took so many years to find her son a good wife because it had to be done absolutely right. As one can see, arranged marriage plays a very important role in the culture of India. ...

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Tertullian wrote in the year 200 that he violently condemned Christian women who married pagans, describing them as slaves of the devil. He also wrote two angry treatises condemning Christian women's use of makeup, hair dye, fancy clothes, and jewelry. ... The plague played a substantial role in the decline of the Roman population, of far greater importance was the low fertility rate of the free population in the Greco-Roman world and the extremely low fertility of the large slave population. ... Many facts show that Christian fertility played a large role in the rise of Christianity. ...

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When William Shakespeare wrote it. ... That would have been the climax of the play and no one else would have died. ... If you read through the play, you will always find something to take from it. ... The indecisiveness decisions that many characters faced throughout the play added to the meaning of the play. ... The decisions made throughout the play were a key point to how the play ended....

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William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage in his mind, and to his honors and valiant parts..." refusing the attempts of other suitors such as Roderigo. ... When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... She is aware of th...

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Strong Women of Othello William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage in his mind, and to his honors and valiant parts..." refusing the attempts of other suitors such as Roderigo. ... When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power...

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In what ways does the Industrial Revolution affect the opportunities and constraints in women's lives in the 19th century? In the 19th century women were expected to live in the home and be constrained to the affairs of the household and family (children, her husband). The average woman had ...

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"The Storm" In the short story "The Storm" the major components that are emphasized are plot, character, and setting. These components work together in order to make the reader visualize life from the characters" point of view. The author, Kate Chopin, tells the story in a unique way that help...

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All of Jack London's stories are baser on personal experiences, which shows that he is fascinated by pain and nature. He was the child of Flora Wellman and William Henry Chaney. However, Chaney refused to acknowledge London as his own. Afterwards, "Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran, ...

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He is very much a person who plays people according to his best interests. ... Although people could have probably felt more sympathy towards him in the time period he wrote it in mainly because the Old Testament philosophies were much more accepted. ...

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Its heroine, Katherine, is such a strong willed and overpowering character in the beginning of the play, and when Shakespeare wrote, that was not as common. ... It is the changing of the roles that makes the play unique and keeps the audience interested in the play. ... "Rebellious women- were a concern for Englishmen during the time that Shakespeare wrote his plays (Detmer, Shakespeare Quarterly, 273). ... Katherine was indeed a great source of energy in the play and she was also the play's most complex character. ... He plays mi...

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On surface, this could be a simple story about two friends playing pool while one complains about his wife. ... As a result he says that he stopped playing pool to take care of his wife. ... In addition to Mae"s crying spells, she becomes frantic when her husband goes to play pool. ... If he tells her that he is going to go play some pool she gets angry and starts yelling at him. ... Because the writer, John O"Hara, wrote with such vague clues and hints, it is the reader who creates the story and supplies the characters" motivations. ...

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These two concluding lines of Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew", summarize each side of the question we are left to answer as the play closes; whether or not Petruchio has succeeded in taming Katharina. ... Critic Ruth Nevo wrote, "The man she has married has humor and high spirits, intuition, patience, self-command, and masterful intelligence; and there is more than merely a homily for Elizabethan wives in her famous speech: She wins her husband's wager but the speech bespeaks a generosity of spirit beyond the call of two hundred crowns "(Nevo, Shakespeare for Students, ...

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The Heroics of Women Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is a play about a young wife and her husband. ... Ibsen wrote the characters of Helmer and Nora for a very particular reason. ... While he does hide his own views in the play itself, he does not force them upon the audience. ... In fact, Ibsen often wrote about an individual fighting against! ... Nora's faults that are present throughout the play are evidence of her childlike nature. ...

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Before the 1990's, men alone wrote and directed all the movies, and the movies were written for men. ... In the few movies that were based around women, a man wrote the woman's character, and the woman was portrayed as a sex symbol. ... In the movie Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts plays a hooker in Los Angeles, California. ...

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Wilde studied the classics at Trinity College, Dublin, with distinction (from 1871 to 1874), and at the Magdalen College in Oxford, (1874-1878).He wrote "The importance of being Earnest- in 1985. ... In the play nine actors take part: John "Jack" Worthing: Jack is the play's protagonist; he is the most sympathetic, plausible character, whose love for Gwendolen is far more believable than the other desires we witness. ... Lady Bracknell: Lady Bracknell is the major antagonist in the play, blocking both potential marriages. ... You can read this play without problems. ... She shows hi...

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Menander wrote over 100 plays only eight of which won awards at the Athenian dramatic festivals. ... Love is the powerful emotion that dominates the play "Dyskolos.... The main female character in the play, in which the play is ultimately centered around posses the name of Girl. In the play she is addressed as "the girl" or "free girl" throughout the entire play by both her father and the man who loves her. Even though the play is centered around this girl the playwright feels like it is not important to give her a name in the play. ...

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Of course any thoughts on these plays stems from Ibsen's own designs and one must ask why Ibsen has written his drama thus. Had Ibsen written these plays to deliberately catalyst the feminist movement in Norway? ... When she wrote a novel about her unhappiness and oppression Ibsen refused to publish it - he also declined to help her pay off the loan. ... In both plays there is hope for the husbands left behind. ... Soon after this the audience sees Hedda first attempt to hide or deny her pregnancy which is carried on through out the play - "it would kill me- she says. ...

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Edmund is a character worthy of study, as he seems to be the most socially complex character of the play. ... Early in the play, we realize that his brother Edgar is just the opposite, though later he grows wiser due to necessity. ... By the end of the play we see that their plots are going to hinge on his course of action and that they are both doting on him. ... This is a shallow view, given the level of intelligence displayed by Edmund throughout the play and his concern with legitimacy. ... Though occupying a small niche in the play, Edmund is the most complex character of all. ...

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