Odile H Mrs. Lockman English 26 April 2013 The Treatment of Women in A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll House Although A Streetcar Named Desire (ASND) by Tennessee Williams‚ and A Doll House (ADH) by Henrik Ibsen are written nearly a hundred years apart‚ both authors have men treat women in similar fashion. Both men‚ Mitch from ASND and Torvald from ADH‚ treat women as if women are their possession‚ they get very angry at the women for not following the rules and finally‚ as a consequence
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Unmasking the Iron Veil The Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism are two very different time periods in which the persecution of others‚ based on religion or party affiliation‚ happened. These two eras occurred two centuries apart‚ yet both are very similar. The constant fear and chattering of rumors induced hysteria and paranoia within both societies. It makes you wonder if we‚ as a society‚ can accept others who are not described as normal? Or can we even accept those who are different and not judge
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American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov‚ a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark‚ New Jersey. Levov’s happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson‚ which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk." The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included
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financial conditions. For example‚ when the play begins Nora is just returning home from a shopping trip. She enters the apartment with an “armload of packages” (43) and is followed by a boy carrying a Christmas tree. Nora then tells Helene‚ one of their maids‚ to hide the tree so the kids won’t see it until it’s been decorated. When Torvald enters‚ she asks him for money so she can “hang the bills in gilt paper” as Christmas tree decorations (45). The tree symbolizes her obsession with money because she
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A theme of A Doll’s House that is present to the audience is that many of the characters wear a mask to hide their real identity. The characters use these masks as a tactic of illusion. They pretend to be someone else in public‚ instead of themselves‚ as how one portrayal is supposed to be the most important thing‚ according to this play. Although many of the main characters in this play wear a mask‚ Nora Helmer‚ is one that stands out the most. She seems to be a sprightly‚ money-hungry wife of the
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Hopes‚ Dreams‚ and Reality Graduation by Maya Angelou is an essay about discrimination. The beginning of this essay reminded me of my own high school graduation. How scared but excited I was to be taking the next step up in my life. I felt like the story paralleled my experiences at the beginning‚ but at the end I had a totally different outlook on this piece of writing. As I got further into the essay‚ I felt that there was nothing about Angelou’s life that I had ever experienced or could relate
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Describe and explain the contents of Pliny’s letter to Trajan and Trajan’s reply Pliny‚ instead of the usual Senatorial governor‚ was sent to Bithynia in 112AD to reorganise the affairs of the province‚ which had fallen into a deplorable state through the mismanagement of ‘local authorities’. Pliny was described by Mackail as being “upright and conscientious‚ but irresolute‚ pedantic and totally unable to think and act for himself in any unusual circumstances”. Pliny was investigating Christians
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An Inspector calls An inspector calls was written by J.B Priestley in 1934 and performed in 1945‚ 33 years after the war. But the play itself is set around 1912 just before the war broke out‚ the play is a neutralistic‚ mystery drama about a middle class family named the Birlings who all have a mischievous secret that involves the death of Eva Smith‚ which teaches people a lesson about social justice. When the play opens the Birling family are cheerfully celebrating the engagement of the beloved
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On the way‚ he started to recall his last visit there. It was three years ago‚ when Sir Berkeley returned to the burned capital after the rebellion (Foner 100). The city was ruined‚ and almost as much to repair as if it had been new to build. Ashes and dirt covered the streets and the walls. It was as if an enormous dark cloud had engulfed the city. Clive was summoned to attend a meeting with the rest of the ruling class‚ discussing
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bull-fighting because he yearns for the same intensity in his own life. Instead‚ his life is filled with mundane activities that never seem to satisfy him: “‘You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink
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