... has childlike tendencies and is very immature; Mrs. Linde says to her, "Nora, Nora, aren't you sensible yet? Back in school you were such a free spender," (Ibsen 1573). Nora has not changed her ways at all since her days in school, when she was a child. Immature as she is though, Nora still loves her children very ... ). She is beginning to wonder if her actions will have a negative affect on her own children and is horrified by the thought. According to Ibsen's "Notes for a Modern Tragedy," a woman cannot be herself in modern society. Nora didn't even have a "self" to be. "It is an exclu...

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... appointed "stage poet- of a local theater. After writing four plays, the theater sent him on a study tour of Denmark and Germany in 1852. Ibsen traveled Europe from 1864 to 1891, writing his most important plays while abroad. It was during this time that he wrote A Doll House in 1879, which ... Nora's decision to abandon her children, and in the second ending she decides that the children need her more than she needs her freedom. Ibsen believed that women were best suited to be mothers and wives, but at the same time, he had an eye for injustice and Helmer's demeaning ... of individual...

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... themselves and the one they truly love. The story of A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen portrays the roles of men and women in Victorian society and the problems within these roles. Ibsen uses the characters in the novel, especially Nora and Torvald, to symbolize men and women. Ibsen uses an extraordinary writing quality to show demented relationship between Nora and Torvald, or men ... written not to prove a belief, but to educate. The reader learns that women are to be treated as people and not as possessions for men to better their appearance. The book is a satire upon the views of a Vict...

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... and a highly controversial drama of nineteenth century Europe inhabit the same thematic territory. What links Antigone, by Sophocles, and A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen is their examination of relations between men and women. In both works, the major male character embodies an idea that, in turn, powerfully affects other ... himself primarily as responsible for the financial welfare of his family and as a guardian for his wife. "We can"t afford to squander money." (Ibsen 138) Money is an important issue throughout this story and Torvald feels responsible for the income. He abhors the i...

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In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora and Torvald Helmer show the possible effects of gender conflict in a marriage. When a woman faces the constraining roles of a strict patriarchal society, she may choose to step ... against. "Tell me what to do, keep me right - as you always do"(949). By saying this, Nora was actually referring to Torvald coaching her in practicing the Tarantella, but Ibsen was using verbal irony to show us Nora's vision of Torvald. She knows what society and Torvald expect of her. It is a role she plays well - until she finds that ... ...

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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. Torvald states explicitly that he ... Nora cannot find true freedom in these traditional domestic responsibilities. Nora sees that freedom entails independence from societal constraints and the ability to explore her own p...

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... have thought about many different ways to organize this paper and have come to the conclusion that the best way to approach the topic is on a book-by-book basis. My perceptions of the gender biases in these books vary greatly and I did not want to begin altering my views on each so that ... , shows a certain bias towards the supposed strength that innately accompanies masculinity. This attitude is only furthered by the fact that the rest of the book as almost totally devoid of female characters other than the witch-like caricature presented to us in the form of the warden. She comes comp...

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... . She was born in Jamaica, a small island but yet, an important mechanism to the growing Empire. Many years later, author Linda Colley explored Elizabeth Marsh's life while researching for her book, Captives. Elizabeth Marsh is an unusual figure to study; she was not wealthy or known for her successes although she did travel immensely, "visiting and exploring settlements, towns and ... history. In order for Linda Colley to write a biography of Elizabeth Marsh effectively, she needed to have plenty of sources. Colley's book The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh is solely based on an interpretatio...

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... , Mrs Clarissa Dalloway admits to herself: "It was not like one's feeling for a man. It was completely disinterested, and, besides, it had a quality which could only exist between women- (page 39 ). She appreciates Sally's presence in her life as a present, "a diamond, something infinitely precious-, for a moment giving her the "religious feeling!-, feel of revelation (what revelation?) and men in this ... of Narration in Virginia Woolf's early novels-, one can find interesting lines that also would correspondent to my personal view of V. Woolf's novel as an impressionist painting (I th...

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... characters to portray the modern day relationship between men and women. Characters are the central point in the novel and are the personality in the book. Characters are also helpful in developing the themes of the text. Themes are used in stories as a central topic, in the storyline. ... year, just when she's stressed to the snapping point, she cooks Thanksgiving dinner. We beg her not to. We plead with her, send anonymous notes. She doesn't listen." (Anderson Pg. 57) The direct quote signifies that Melinda's mother feels cooking is necessary for her to perform during Thanksgiving ... ...

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... very least, on television. Considering music videos to basically be ads, their portrayal of women affects the viewing audience in a similar manner as television ads. Kilbourne (Knutsen, 2000), p.1) notes in her first book that advertisements influence adolescents for three main reasons. One is that their money is more likely to be spent on what they want, not necessarily what they need, because ... for an adolescent to turn to music videos to understand what is going o in the United States considering MTV creates an unrealistic view of the world we live in. Aufderheide notes "with nary ...

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... : Sexing The Cherry The Flip Side Sexing the Cherry, written by Jeanette Winterson, abandons traditional literary form altogether. The main story line is very simple. At the beginning of the book, we are introduced to the Dog Woman, her adopted son Jordan and the life they lead in sixteenth century England. The Dog Woman is a large grotesque giant who has a very ... an adventurer and the king's gardener. Jordan travels with him, but his most important travels seem to be those in his mind. Sexing the cherry is unlike many novels. The book doesn't seem to set time in a linear fashion (i.e....

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... and professional correspondence." (# 3) A letter written by Master Kenneth Burke to Dear Mom and Lewis on August 8 1908 is the earliest of nearly 1,100 notes and letters by Burkes himself. Also of interest are the tiny spider like summaries in margins or on in margins or on the versos of letters, where ... from approximately 1959 until his death in 1993. Title for these materials is in the process of passing to the Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Kenneth Burkes book A Grammar Of Motives are the goal of all is works. After Burke's death in 1993 at the age of 96, the sculptor add...

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... Gooden (2001) showed that the total female count slightly edged out the male count with 51% of the population. Females were main characters 40% of the time in comparison with a 39% male representation. Furthermore, no significant difference was found between books of female and male main characters. However, while females were found more often, they were still given a lesser array of ... of women in children's books have reached a level of parity to men's roles. The lack of a significant relationship between gender and role relationship may be a reflection of today's equity in book prod...

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... when they feel the need for revenge, or to "get even," with the thing or person evoking their anger in the first place. Other scholars have expanded Aristotle's notes on anger-its use as a rhetorical tool, what causes people to get angry, and what kind of rhetoric best evokes anger. Christopher Carey ... notes that some of the most persuasive "angry rhetoric," evokes anger in a way that makes the audience feel personally offended, even though it may not have actually been a personal ... is not, indicates that rage will be aroused in females when hearing the stereotypes about domestici...

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... , is still widely maintained (184). Although the number of people against the idea that "Men should work outside, and women should housekeep" is increasing, 46.2% of men and 39.8% of women are still for the idea. Surprisingly, despite the fact that Japan is such a rich country, the ratio of people affirmative to the division of labor by gender role ... continue working after marriage. What do Japanese people think about women and work? According to Nikkei Newspaper, it turned out that one out of three women between age 15 and 39 want to be housewife after getting married, whereas one out...

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... than likely because of her domestication and not her level of intelligence. On the contrary, the Dairy Man is well-respected for his power to create poetry that heals. Leapor notes the different perceptions held of these two people, as early on in the piece Mary's writing is compared to the "rhyme- of December, insinuating something that is disagreeable and lifeless ... of King and to women, the Duchess of Dumb. Works Cited Finch, Anne (Lady Winchelsea). "The Introduction."" Quoted in Course Notes of ENGL 205*. Queen's University, Kingston: Fall Term, 2003. 14. Leapor, Mary. "The Epistl...

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... classes, but it is clear that struggling parents who work minimum wage jobs are forced to apply for Food Stamps, TANK, and other welfare programs. According to charts in the notes, a family of four needs an annual salary of $37,66l in order to get by without using welfare. If both parents are working in full-time, minimum wage jobs, which ... this class and not question my current beliefs. The Bible mentions sexuality when it states God created man and woman, but gender is never mentioned. Mankind created gender so the book of Genesis must be referring to sexuality. Without this class, ...

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... 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 of her own to make fiction is because privacy and solitude ... have. In addition, she has views about what women are like and how it affects the fiction they create. She also has views about what women writers are like. She notes at one point, for example, that the great 19th century ones were all childl...

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... a shared political priority list or even a set of issues one must espouse to be feminist inheriting critiques of sexist dominant culture and embracing pop culture that supported women" (Baumgardner, p. 39). Additionally, this Third Wave saw the rise of combining the feminist movement with the fight against other forms of oppression, especially those of homophobia and racism. Combahee explains this concept ... ...

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... and Dufour 1998) Yet, females are not non-existent in the criminal justice system because the number of women in State prisons grew 75% from 1986 to 1991, reaching almost 39,000 by mid 1991. At that time female offenders had risen from 4.7 % in 1986 to 5.2 % of prisoners in 1991 (Snell, 1994). Thus the knowledge that gender differences in crime should ... ...

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... and Stop Sign Tabulation Gender 1 2 3 4 Total Female n % 7 6.8% 49 46.6% 21 20.4% 26 25.2% 103 100% Male n % 22 18.8% 37 31.6% 33 38.2% 25 21.4% 117 100% Total 29 32,2% 86 39.1% 54 25.4% 51 23.2% 220 100% Note. 1 = No Stop, 2 = Slow Down, 3 =Stop before or after line, 4= Full Stop...

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... suggests that discrimination is less practiced than perhaps it was. The majority of American working women--63%--are on the job 40 hours a week or more; 30% work 20 to 39 hours, and only 7% work fewer than 20 hours a week, according to a recent survey.(teach) The literacy rate for women worldwide is 71.4 percent, compared with 83.7 per cent for men ... ...

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... , and every kind of weather through which You give sustenance to Your creatures Praised be You through Sister Water, which is very useful and humble and precious and chaste. (Francis, 39) In this quotation Francis identifies all male figures as peaceful providers and the female figures with beauty, humility, and chastity. These are duplications of the roles men and women played ... ...

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... salaries were more than the women's in all sports - sometimes a lot more. In basketball, men's head coaches were paid an average of $71,511, but the women's coaches made only $39,177. Even in female dominated sports like gymnastics, the men's coaches were paid more on average. And because most schools offer more sports for men than women, the average combined ... ...

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