... Mary was when she started her affair with Stephen, and continued to keep it quiet. It may even be possible that Crystal was keeping quiet to merely shield Mary from the painful truth. All Mary does is devote her life to hurt Crystal, using anyone she can to gain momentum in her fight to someone who hadn't even directly done anything to ... and cold nature of Mary; of all times, when her best friend need her the most. At the end of the play, she tells off Crystal Allen, telling her that she is nothing but a tramp and smugly goes to her ex-husband when the servant calls for the "Mrs. Step...

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... to secretly do things without their husband's permission. I think that this made the women feel important, or that they could do things by themselves. If the truth ever came out it could ruin the relationship between husband and wife, it make s the man feel less of a man when his wife doesn't come to him ... songbird must never do that again. A songbird needs a clean beak to warble with. No false notes. That's the way it should be, isn't it? (1015). Nora lies to Helmer about someone coming to the house and he make sure to tell her that she must never lie to him again. It kind ... to your ...

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... having kids, supporting them and finally looking after them. "The ideals of manliness found in these places in the Mediterranean see to have three moral imperatives: first impregnating one's wife, second, provisioning dependents; third, protecting the family." (Gilmore 285) Gilmore's term may be apply to Adrienne Rich's essay "Women and Honor: Some notes on Lying" because it contains similar ideas about how women ... are expected to behave according to the society they live in. According to society's expectations women's role should display femininity and ... men in town wanted to belie...

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... to worry about this one...don't forget your asthma medicine." She has taken notes on a script he left for her to read, and promises to put them in his briefcase. As he leaves the room she reaches for the briefcase, but her attention is distracted by his jacket, lying on the chair above the briefcase, and an open envelope in its pocket; surreptitiously, she removes a piece ... their meeting must needs remain a mystery. Or perhaps, once again, it is deliberately left unexplained, so that what Tibor deems the central point and sustaining event of their relationship is in fact silently expo...

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... characteristics were attributed to women, great responsibility was put on them as regarding the raising of their children. It was commonly assumed that fatal flaws in the characters of men were adopted from some defect in the mother's own character. Helmer comments on this fact and notes that "every lawyer is quite familiar with it (Ibsen 1587)." In this viscous cycle having anything close ... things to her advantage by molding herself to fit his tastes. While Nora may find nothing wrong with these names the average viewer will notice that the real Nora, the Nora that managed to save he...

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... . Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them."" (Woolf, 4) The word "but" might be instructive for suggesting something about the subject of the book itself. "Butting in," one might say, is very much a focus of this work. The reason that a woman needs a room ... about women and fiction is simply to speak about certain women writers, "A few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Bronte's, and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow; some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George E...

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