Reflective Statement on a Doll’s House How was your understanding of cultural and contextual (literary) considerations of the novel developed through the oral exercise? When I first started reading the play I was prepared for it to be a little backward since I had the knowledge of it been written in the 19th century and set in Norway;in which time day to day life and the culture was very closed and what it’s called now is backwards. In the beginning of the play‚ I felt really bad for Nora when
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I] was quite beyond most of us‚” writes George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) in the preface to his extraordinary Heartbreak House‚ one of the playwright’s most important pieces. The play is the featured work this year at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake‚ Ontario‚ celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011. Written and set immediately prior to the First World War‚ Heartbreak House is a quasi-Chekhovian dark comedy about a society on the edge of a precipice. Shaw delayed the production until the war’s
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in Sandra Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street” inevitably leads to disappointment; however fulfilling these dreams is still a possibility despite of its non-actuality. Esperanza lives out unfulfilling life disappointed by the uninspiring house she lives in‚ a worthless music box‚ and the dream of eating in the canteen. Esperanza had hoped for more‚ even believed in more than what she received; a shabby‚ broken-down house on Mango Street. The description of the house Esperanza’s parents provide
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Afro-American religions. Africans‚ from what is now called Yorubaland‚ brought Yemaya/Yemoja and a host of other deities/energy forces in nature with them when they were brought to the shores of the Americas as captives. She is the ocean‚ the essence of motherhood‚ and a fierce protector of children. This is an excerpt from the article Yemanjá from the Wikipedia free encyclopedia. A list of authors is available at Wikipedia. From the House of Yemanjá From the House of Yemanjá By Audre Lorde 1934–1992
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and faith. Candles may symbolize for hope. This story was focused on a ten-year old unnamed boy. His character is torn between being a child and being a grown up. He is a picture torn between either to act responsibly or irresponsibly. His lack for a father figure‚ influence how his character acts and thinks. In this story‚ he is the one who stands as “the man of the house”. This is reflected in the line‚ “It’s a funny thing about women‚ the way they’ll take orders from anything in trousers‚ even
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NAME: Liban Hussein Film Review: Life as a House George Monroe is a lonely and sad man. Divorced for ten years‚ he lives alone on the Southern California coast with his pet dog in the same run down shack he has lived in for twenty-five years‚ the shack which his father passed down to him. In the intervening years‚ ostentatious houses have sprung up around him. He’s been at the same architectural firm for twenty years in a job he hates‚ which primarily consists of building scale models. On the
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growing that Esperanza was writing in the beginning of the chapter and she sounds like six years old because she loves to write about her houses that she described many things about her homes that her family and she didn’t always live on Mango street. Before that‚ they lived on Loomis on the third floor‚ and before that‚ they lived on Keeler. She writes‚ “The house on Mango Street is ours‚ and we don’t have to pay rent to anybody‚ or share the yard with the people J downstairs‚ or be careful not to
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Because of Nora’s appearance‚ she has been able to accompany and aid her husband’s voyage to the top of the social ladder. She has gained a personal nanny who essentially lives half of her live. She takes care of the children‚ cleans up and around the house‚ even cooks for the family. This profit would undeniably never been in Nora’s options if she had never married such a powerful man. Alongside her husband‚ Nora also rose to some degree of social dominance‚ being looked up on and respected because of
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The Fall of the House of Usher is a tale about a sickly man‚ Roderick who reaches out to his childhood best friend to come and help. When the narrator arrives to the house he notices that it is a very gloomy area and the house itself looked very sick. He goes in and tries to lighten the mood of Roderick and make him feel better but nothing is working. Roderick has a twin sister named Madeline who has also fallen very ill and the has Roderick feeling down as well. Later‚ Madeline dies and Roderick
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A Doctor in the House Henrik Ibsen’s character‚ Dr. Rank‚ in "A Doll’s House" is an important component of the play‚ though he is not a lead character. Rank enhances the story in his own right as a character‚ but mainly serves a greater purpose as an accentuation of Nora’a character. Nora’s relationship with Rank is equal‚ and perhaps it implants in Nora’s mind the idea that relationships should be equal. Their relationship brings up questions about social correctness and even the values necessary
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