The texts I have chosen are How Many Miles to Babylon by Jennifer Johnston (HMMB) and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (ADH). The theme/issue of relationships and power is clearly evoked in the relationshios between Alicia and Alec in HMMB and Nora and Helmer in ADH. Both texts and relationships show the use and abuse of power. In the opening scene of HMMB‚ we get our first glimpse at the relationship shared between Alec and Alicia. Alec writes that he loves ‘no living person’. He will not write to
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The Use of Symbolic Language in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: A Feministic Perspective Abdul Baseer‚ Ph.D. Candidate Sofia Dildar Alvi Fareha Zafran‚ M.Phil. English Candidate ==================================================================== Language in India www.languageinindia.com ISSN 1930-2940 Vol. 13:3 March 2013 ==================================================================== Abstract This paper is a feministic analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in Julia Kristeva’s perspective of semiotic
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society thinks. These two women come from different homes and lead very different lives yet‚ these two women share similar situations- both are victims; both are seeking individuality‚ and initially‚ both women end up alone. There are many ways that Nora and Mrs. Wright differ first; both come from completely different households… A Brief Synopsis of “Trifles”- The sheriff Henry Peters and the county attorney George Henderson arrive with the witness Lewis Hale‚ Mrs. Peters‚ and Mrs. Hale at John Wright’s
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majority want it to be‚ notwithstanding whether it is right or wrong. Henrik showed this in his drama‚ “A Doll House.” “A Doll House” includes Torvald Helmer‚ a lawyer; Nora‚ his wife; Dr. Rank‚ Mrs. Linda‚ Nils Krogstad‚ Anne-Marie‚ Helena‚ a delivery boy and the Helmer’s three children. Initial in the play‚ everything seems fine and okay in the Helmer family‚ but as events began to unfold‚ it became obvious that things were not as fine as initially portrayed. Torvald was initially portrayed as loving
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the identity resemblance of characters from one play to the other is nothing short of astonishing. Moreover‚ one cannot help but feel that their personal identity correspond with those of the characters in these plays. Blanche Dubois with Iago‚ Stella Kowalski with Desdemona. Although the dissimilarities of their identities from other characters in their respective plays are unequivocal‚ when carefully examined in the aforementioned pairs‚ striking similarities tend to emerge. A Streetcar Named Desire’s
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1888‚ married women in Norway were finally given control over their own money‚ but the Norway of Ibsen’s play predates this change and provides a more restrictive environment for women such as Nora Helmer. In 1879‚ a wife was not legally permitted to borrow money without her husband’s consent‚ and so Nora must resort to deception to borrow the money she so desperately needs. Ibsen always denied that he believed in women’s rights‚ stating instead that he believed in human rights. The issue of women’s
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Doll House‚ written by Henrik Ibsen‚ Nora Helmer spends the entire play trying to keep a big secret from her husband‚ Torvald Helmer. This secret is that she borrowed money to pay for Torvald to get better‚ but she told her husband that she got the money from her father. After consulting her friend Kristine and lawyer Krogstad‚ Nora allowed Torvald to find out the truth‚ which leads to her leaving him and their children. Throughout the play‚ it is obvious that Nora has different characteristics‚ some
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Austin Green-Paxton TDA-English 4A 6/10/13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream A and B) THESEUS‚ Duke of Athens: Engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order throughout the course of the play. He appears only at the beginning and end of the story‚ and seems to be removed from the dreamlike events of the forest. EGEUS‚ Father to Hermia: Egeus has given Demetrius permission to marry Hermia‚ but Hermia‚ who’s in love with Lysander‚ refuses to marry Demetrius. Egeus’s insists that
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Throughout the play‚ Williams demonstrates a number of different themes that some of the main characters portray. One of these themes is a primitive theme‚ which the one of the main characters dominantly shows‚ Stanley Kowalski. Tennessee Williams uses the primal actions of Stanley Kowalski to really depict the time frame in America to the reader‚ the 1940s‚ where man was certainly the head of all families and always in control. Stanley’s primitive behaviors grow more and more noticeable as the play
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A Doll’s House Author: Henrik Ibsen MAJOR CHARACTER: *Norma Helmer - Wife of Torvald *Torvald Helmer - husband of Nora *Dr. Rank - Rich family friend‚ who is secretly in love with Nora *Kristine Linde - Nora’s
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