For 1: The House of Lords is unelected therefore do not represent the nation. For 2: The Lords are appointed for life and therefore cannot be removed from office. For 3: The Lords are useless and get overridden by the Commons. We need a chamber with power. For 4: It is anachronistic for a democratic state to have an unelected chamber of parliament. For 5: But it’s WRONG. Against 1: The Commons represents the nation: a second chamber in a unitary state cannot duplicate this effect
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“A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen is a play based in Norway in the 1870’s. To some extent‚ time matters to this work because it brings up the issues of roles of women in the 1870’s. Women were not very independent at that time and had to take permissions from a male authoritarian figure to make decisions related to work or finances. This issue is brought up through Nora‚ when Mrs. Linde is being told her secret of borrowing money. Mrs. Linde is shocked that Nora’s husband is not aware of this and
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Financial Struggles affecting Individuality The individuals within the society of Henrik Ibsen’s play‚ A Doll’s House‚ are prohibited from being fully developed individuals‚ due to social and financial problems. A Doll’s House is set in Norway in the late 1800s. At the time‚ Norway was just hit by a economic depression‚ making it difficult to find a job‚ and even harder to get promoted to a high-paying position. Also‚ sexism was very prominent‚ and women were precluded from their rights and
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Freedom Freedom is not available to everyone within the play‚ A Doll’s House‚ written by Henrik Ibsen. The play shows how people within the play are denied their freedom and have to sacrifice their lives for others. They live a life performing duties that restrain them from living their lives the way they want to. Nora‚ Mrs. Linde‚ and the Torvald all deal with this. Within this time period‚ women are treated as a piece of property. Nora is the property of Torvald. She abides by his requests and
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Sometimes in life you feel like you have to run away other times you feel like you have to stay.A Doll’s House at the end of the play Nora and Torvald got into a fight over the events that occurred during the play. Secrets were kept‚lies were made and emotions poured. Throughout the fight I am in the middle on whether Nora’s should leave. Nora had many things going through her mind through the play. When everything comes out about the stuff she has been hiding the letters the kept secrets and
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“History repeats itself” is a phrase often spoken. So much so‚ in fact‚ that people often understand it as tacit in many situations; however‚ while the physical actions and events of history are often replayed in some way or another‚ the societal conventions and‚ ironically the least obvious‚ the human condition flaws included also unapologetically bleeds back back into our society regardless of how much we try to expel the worst parts. Though one may assume that thought of humans being human is
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Mooney who runs the boarding house. She has had an unhappy marriage and it made her as sharp as an axe. When she gets rid of her husband she opens a boarding house. She has a son‚ Jack‚ who is "a hard case". She also has a daughter‚ Polly‚ a slim girl of nineteen who resembles a "perverse little Madonna." Mrs. Mooney is concerned about Polly’s marriage and she knows that most men are not seriously interested in her. So she decides to keep Polly in the boarding house and make her an attraction for
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Reflective Statement – A Doll’s House In the play‚ “A Doll’s House” written by Henrik Ibsen‚ there is a strong statement of existentialism throughout. Interestingly enough‚ it seems that each of the three acts in the play correspond to a stage within the concept of existentialism‚ in the order of which they occur. Act I is in correlation with the Aesthetic Stage. This is the stage where one is obsessed with their appearance‚ always changing due to a lack of knowing oneself. We see this evident
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The characters from the plays A Doll House and Oedipus‚ Krogstad and the house messenger‚ have similar dependencies‚ yet are completely different people. Krogstad‚ we all know was a man from Nora’s past. Krogstad was involved in a work scandal many years before. In result of Krogstad making a bad decision‚ his career is in jeopardy. Now if I ever did a favor for someone and it came back on me and the only way I could save myself was to tell on the other person. Its every man for himself in this
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will be leaving the way you used to live your life. Without the parents’ daily advices‚ there are of course some decisions that are hard to decide whether you make this or that‚ there are circumstances after that. The students staying in boarding houses would be a little worry of their life in a place where he or she does not know anything to a person he or she will be living with for a period of time. (Lazarus‚ 1976). According to Lazarus (1976) many college students fail to achieve the maximum
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