and Mrs. Linde’s arrivals. It is Christmas Eve. Nora Helmer enters the house with packages and a Christmas tree. She pays the porter double what she owes him and eats some macaroons. Her husband‚ Torvald Helmer‚ comes out of his study and addresses Nora with tenderness and authority‚ calling her his "skylark" and his "squirrel." Nora tells Torvald that she wants to show him what she has bought‚ and Torvald teases her for being a spendthrift. Nora replies that she and Torvald can afford to be extravagant
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from‚ and Eunice lets her into the Kowalski’s two-room apartment. Stella arrives and expresses happiness in seeing her sister. Blanche asks for a drink‚ and Stella prepares it. They chat‚ and Blanche tells Stella how terrible the neighborhood is. Stella responds positively about her home. Blanche explains why she left her teaching job‚ an explanation that proves to be false. She expresses a concern that Stanley may not like her. Stella reassures her but also tells her not to compare him to men they
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play demonstrates an allegory for women’s roles because it shows how Nora is treated like a doll by her father and husband; she is even treated like a doll in society. Women such as Christine Linde and Nora‚ during this era‚ have lifeless lives. “Miss Sweet-Tooth” one of the many pet names used by Torvald for Nora shows how this names diminish the status on women compare to men. The pet name “Miss Sweet-Tooth” is used to refer Nora as if she is a child instead of Torvald’s wife hence the word “Miss”
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and how one could soon become very obsessed by it. Both Jane and Nora are strong broadminded woman but are put into positions that represses these natural mannerisms. This is mainly due to the people that surround them and their thoughts on how they should act and be seen throughout society’s eye. In A Doll’s House Torvald Helmer‚ Nora’s husband is very obsessed with reputation and appearance‚ he has a respectable job and classes Nora as a trophy wife‚ thus resulting in a lot to lose that could humiliate
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2012 Final Research Paper: A Streetcar Named Desire Draft Blanche Dubois is a character in Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire. She is a rather important person in the play‚ as the plot is largely centered on her and Stanley Kowalski. Her character is challenging and controversial because she has a shocking past but portrays herself to be a classy and sophisticated woman. Blanche arrives at her sister Stella’s apartment in New Orleans‚ Louisiana on a streetcar named Desire
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Summary Stella and Blanche are in the bedroom on an August afternoon. Blanche breaks out in laughter at the untruthfulness of the letter she has just finished writing to Shep Huntleigh‚ prompting Stella to ask her about the letter’s contents. Blanche gleefully reads the letter aloud. In it‚ she suggests that she visit Shep in Dallas‚ and she claims that she and Stella have been amusing themselves with society parties and visits to luxurious country homes. Stella finds no humor in her sister’s stories
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To understand the relationships and the differences between two stories‚ one must analyze the story from beginning to end‚ noting which direction each story heading from the beginning. The plot must be closely looked upon as well as the actors and their actions. Antigone and A doll’s house are very similar stories as they both tragic stories of betrayal and mind games. In Antigone‚ King Creon makes a statewide decree stating that Polynices‚ the traitor is not to receive a formal burial and is left
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play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the theme of violence is very frequent in the character Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is a married‚ young man‚ who comes across to the reader as quite an enraged person with animalistic attributes. A prime insinuation of Stanley’s difference to regular humans is when Stella DuBois (Stanley’s wife) explains to her sister that Stanley is of “a different species”‚ foreshadowing that Williams may be warning the reader that
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the children. They were expected to find a suitor; this man would take care of the family financially. Women were submissive to their husbands back then. They didn’t stand up for their rights or voice their opinions. Women catered to their husbands. Nora is submissive to Torvalds’s needs. The play is about Nora’s behavior to her husband. She submits to him and is a mother to their children. She is unhappy as a caretaker. She over enthusiastic personality throughout the play seems forced. She feels
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is placed in the picturesque French Quarter in New Orleans. The play starts when Blanche DuBois comes in New Orleans to visit her sister Stella after she lost the family plantation Belle-Reve because of money problems. She then meets her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski‚ a World War II veteran. As soon as they meet each other‚ a mistrustful rivalry starts between them. A Streetcar Named Desire depicts the conflict between two opposing views as a poker
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