In reality, she saves his life and proves that women in this era are not helpless. ... In A Doll's House, Nora saves Torvald's life by getting him the proper medical treatments in Italy. ... Without a man's knowledge, Nora she deals with money very well, and in addition to household chores Nora finds ways to earn money. ... Nora is driven to earn money: "I have had to save a little here and there, where I could, you understand. ... Torvald gives Nora money, but instead of spending it on frivolous things like expensive clothing and shoes, she saves it. ...

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Much like a young girl would, she is quick to spend her money, knowing it's going to come with consequences. ... Much like a father would to his daughter, Torvald explains to her that she must learn to save her money and spend it wisely. ... There's always something unpleasant, about a home built on credit and borrowed money." ... Torvald finds out what Nora had done to get the money for their trip. Even though it saved Torvald's life, he disapproves of Nora's actions, going behind his back to borrow money in order to save her husband. ...

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Nora is caught in a situation where in order to save her husbands life she has to borrow money and throughout the play you see her evolve as a character and a woman. ... Isn't a daughter entitled to try and save her father from worry and anxiety on his death bed? Isn't a wife entitled to save her husband's life? ...

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Their objective was to save the lives of the injured. ... For example, Olivia, sacrifices her own life in order to save all the other nurses. ... Davidson runs in trying to save her fellow nurse. ... Phyllis poisons Neff into killing her husband all for insurance money. The plot of a train accident to increase the insurance money tells how greedy they both gotten. ...

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We pay good money to see movies in the theater, television is no longer free (not the good channels anyway), and then, of course, you can pay extra for pay-per view channels on top of your regular cable bill. ... In Miss Congeniality (2000), Sandra Bullock plays an FBI agent that saves the lives of 49 beauty queens. ... Then, there are the men who paid money to watch these men, who are board, beat each other to a pulp. ... All of these role models were damsels in distress, saved by the handsome young prince, who conquers someone. ... Her father was to go, but he was ill, and in order for h...

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She thinks that what she has done, in borrowing money to save her husband's life, is a meaningful accomplishment. ... Borrowing money from a stranger does not make Nora's life meaningful. Yes, she did help to save her husband, but she could have done so through safer means, such as talking to her father. ... She was determined to save him, no matter what the costs. ... She borrows the money from a criminal and signs her fathers name on it. ...

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She has the attitude that money is the key to happiness. ... When Nora took upon herself to borrow money to save Torvald's life, she was taking the first step to realizing that she can be in some control of her life. ... This is evident in Nora's meeting with Krogstad regarding her borrowed money. ... In her opinion, it was no crime for a woman to do everything possible to save her husband's life. ... She cannot possibly comprehend the severity of her decision to borrow money illegally. ...

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The Inside Always Breaks Through The story, The Jewels, appealed to me because it really made me think about how well you really know someone. "Madame Lantin seemed the perfect example of the virtuous woman to whom every sensible young man dreams of entrusting his life". (1034) She was pure and ...

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This is evident in Nora's meeting with Krogstad, regarding her borrowed money. In her opinion it was no crime for a woman to do everything possible to save her husband's life. ... It is only when we get to know about her first secession from society, when she broke the law and decided to borrow money to pay for her husband's treatment. ... Now when Nora committed that act of borrowing money she proved herself not to be helpless as Torvald implied: "You poor helpless little creature!" ... Alving that she must save Osvald from sin, it is unclear whether he is motivated by a pu...

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In "The Wife of Bath's Tale" the knight asks old woman what women in order to save his life, want but in return he had to marry her. ... Soon they had another mission, how to get the money back to the town without looking like robbers. ... The other two would stay and guard the money. While the two men were left alone they began to think that they would have a lot more money if there weren't three of them to split it all with. ... She saved his life. ...

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He also desires to be her protector "like a hunted dove that I have saved from a hawk's claws; I will bring peace to your poor beating heart" (65). ... The repetition of money throughout Act 1, "Money!... You might give me money, Torvald.... Nora borrowed money with authorization and committed forgery out of love for her husband. ... She has the right to the money she earns and does not have to hand it over to a man. ...

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She told him of when she and his dad were little kids he was a nice boy, and he saved her life twice, once when her father died and they were stuck in the woods. ... He decides to give her money instead. ... Milkman life has been saved from deaths because Hagar is clumsy in her homicidal rages. ... Reba sells her diamond and they give her all the money they have. ... This message is too little/ too late to save Hagar. ...

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In order to save her husband's life, Nora forges her father's name on a promissory note. ... She works hard, and saves every penny of her pin-money to pay back the amount she borrowed on the forge check. ... And yet it was splendid to work in that way and earn money. ...

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Linde about how she had forged her father's name to borrow money to save her husband's life and how she had been secretly paying off this debt. ... "Has the little spendthrift been out throwing money around again? (Ibsen 1569)" He naturally assumes that Nora, being a woman, is out frivolously wasting money. ... He gives her extra money for Christmas time expenditures and also seeks to give her some luxurious. ... By natural design, women are not good with money, with planning, or with complicated thinking. ...

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One major controversy that Nora faces is what she has done to save her husband's life. While Torvald was deathly ill in Italy, Nora was willing to do anything to save her husband's life, after all that is what a good wife would do. And so, Nora borrowed money, knowing that this was the only way that she could save her husband. ...

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It starts off by Torvold getting sick and needing to take a long vacation, which is the only thing that can save his life. ... They didn't have the money to do such a thing so Nora had to secretly borrow money from a man by the name of Krogstad. Throughout the play, Torvold finds out that Krogstad had borrowed money in the past. Torvold didn't think it was right to spend money you didn't have or that wasn't your own and had said that it made him physically sick to be around such people. ... At this point she becomes very self sufficient and is on her own as far as paying...

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She bought many tiny bottles of alcohol, which she could have bought much cheaper for just one big one, we can see that she doesn't take into mind the situation that she doesn't have a lot of money to waste. ... After DJ takes all the money that Louise has saved and depends on to get to Mexico, Louise becomes the one in charge, and has a drastic character change, because now she knows that it was her fault for leaving the money on the table with DJ who is a thief, when Louise has repeatedly told he to guard the money. ... As Thelma knows that she was the one responsible for losi...

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AIDs is a risk Fridaus is willing to take if it means feeding her and giving her money. ... El Saadawi does a great job of putting the story into words that get us all fired up and ready to go out and save women just like Fridaus. ...

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On the other hand, Edward the wealthy business man was portrayed as a hero because he drove a fancy car and came from money. ... Money is power, which makes our society flawed. In today's society, it is believed that a person with money is above others without. ... Edward is found desirable wherever he goes because he does come from money, is good looking, and well educated. ... Edward is looked to as the dreamy millionaire hero because he saves Vivian from her life as a prostitute but I feel as though he ruined her and Vivian rescued Edward from himself. ...

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In today's society, advertising is showing little girls contradictory messages, to be the "sex pot" but to still stay at home and spend money but not too much money, basically to be every mans perfect woman. ... Unfortunately, the way advertising is promoted is marking children for money. ... We need to teach our children women are just as naturally talented and can be as educated as men and to look sexy in a classy way to save themselves from being stereotyped in the working world, and as in their domestic lives and from being victims of their sexuality. ...

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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. ... Her understanding of the business details related to the loan she took out to save Torvald's health indicates that she is intelligent and possesses capacities beyond mere wifehood. ... His willingness to allow Nora's torment to continue is cruel and this culminates with her contemplating suicide in order to save her husbands reputation from the incinerator. ...

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The first introduction to La Senora and her life style is possible due to Huberto Naranjo who brings Eva into her apartment in order to save Eva from the hardships of living in the street. ... 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). ... When the crucial letter written by Melesio led to massive arrests in Calle Repuclica and ultimately to the Revolt of Whores, La Senora running to save h...

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He doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know that Nora, herself, can earn some money. ... He doesn't care that Nora did this because she loves him very much, and she did this to save his life. ...

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With this new money came a desire to look successful and aristocratic. ... With new money available and interest in Europe at a peak, this era also witnessed a boom in American tourism in Europe. ... Her intentions are to save her dignity "so that the world may see she is not running absolutely wild- (305). ...

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They made clothes and did nettle work, and Nora wrote letters for people to make some extra money. ... She goes out and borrows money so that they can take a trip, that Helmer needs to take because he gets sick. ... Linde what she has done this to save her husbands life. ...

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