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    The Cherry Orchard: Reality‚ Illusion‚ and Foolish Pride Chandler Friedman English 231 Dr. Clark Lemons In the plays The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov‚ A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen‚ and Galileo by Bertolt Brecht‚ the protagonists’ mental beliefs combine reality and illusion that both shape the plot of each respective story. The ability of the characters to reject or accept an illusion‚ along with the foolish pride that motivated their decision‚ leads to their personal

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    1099). Again Nora tries to justify her reasoning for having to borrow the money for the trip. When Torvald learns of the loan that Nora took to pay for their vacation trip he becomes enraged over this issue saying‚ "You have ruined all my happiness. My whole future-that’s what you have destroyed" (Ibsen 1133). During the whole play he emphasizes the importance of not being in debt to Nora. Torvald talks to Nora as a father does to his daughter. Nora was able to make an easy transition from being

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    What will Torvald ask her to dance for him in? She picks out two dresses and lays them out on the bed. She stares at each trying to picture her playful day. She lifts the first up to her body‚ turns and looks at herself in the mirror. With one hand on her hip and her

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    It is never to late to become a person you were meant to be. God made men and women to be different yet equal. However‚ throughout the centuries‚ women faced and struggled many challenges to be accepted as equal as men. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is considered as the father of modern prose drama. Most of his major works reflect the social issues that provoked controversy in the nineteenth century. “ A Doll House” is one of the clearest portraits of women’s lives in this era in which they have to struggle

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    ENGLISH 120 MID-TERM Alice Miller explored several themes in her book Banished Knowledge. The main idea of the book is the effect of childhood trauma‚ such as‚ emotional blindness and disconnection from one’s real self and feelings and the need for an enlightened witness in order to begin the healing process. In Banished Knowledge‚ Alice Miller states that trauma suffered in our childhood is remembered by the body and is manifested later in the abused child’s adult life often in a destructive

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    their work. Wives daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants. Ibsen focused on portraying these Gender Roles and Separate spheres between the relationship of Nora and Torvald‚ and the opposite roles of men and women of the victorian era between the relationship of Mrs. Linde and Krogstad. The two sexes in that time period adapt to what Victorians thought of as “separate spheres”. Separate spheres refer to the man and

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    palatable. Nora‚ Torvald‚ and Dr. Rank each express the belief that a parent is obligated to be honest and upstanding‚ because a parent’s immorality is passed on to his or her children like a disease. In fact‚ Dr. Rank does have a disease that is the result of his father’s depravity. Dr. Rank implies that his father’s immorality – his many affairs with women – led him to contract a venereal disease that he passed on to his son‚ causing Dr. Rank to suffer from his father’s misdeeds. Torvald voices the idea

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    Genders In his play entitled‚ “A Doll’s House‚” the creator Isben exemplified the theme of women and the role they played in society. In this play‚ you should pay great attention to the lack of inequality between women and men. How may you ask? Torvald‚ who was Nora’s husband‚ believed that women had simple‚ but specific duties to tend to. He believed that it was a women’s duty to not only honor and serve their husbands; but‚ also to raise the children with manners and instill pivotal lessons that

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    Krogstad (controlling himself): Listen to me‚ Mrs. Helmer. If necessary‚ I am prepared to fight for my small past in the Bank as if I were fighting for my life. Nora: So‚ it seems Krogstad: It is not only for the sake of the money; indeed‚ that weighs least with me in the matter. There is another reason---

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    Explore the presentation of Nora Helmer as a deceitful female character in “A doll’s house.” Compare and contrast your findings with the way Wilde presents his female protagonist Mrs. Arbuthnot in “A woman of no importance.” By Gheirey Mulliken Both “A doll’s house” by Henrik Ibsen and “A woman of no importance” by Oscar Wilde were about Nora Helmer and Rachel Arbuthnot (protagonists) and their role as; mothers‚ wives‚ and new women. They were written and performed in Victorian times‚ for a Victorian

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