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Bryan Burrough was previously a writer for the Wall Street Journal, and won three John Handcock Awards in financial journalism. As an author he wrote six bestselling books before The Big Rich, including Days of Rage and Public Enemies. Burroughs grew up around the families of the Big Rich and was amazed by them. He wrote The Big Rich in response to the lack of knowledge about the families who were once considered Texas nobility. The book focuses around the lives the Big Rich, Roy Cullen, Sid…

The question of whether it is better that you feared or loved is very interesting and many people have their own opinions on this matter. One of the people who analyzed this question was Niccolo Machiavelli – one of the most famous Italian thinkers and political leaders of the Renaissance period. When the Medici family gained power in Florence, during the Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli, who was back then a civil servant in the Florentine Republic - was accused of conspiracy and imprisoned. To…

Men are superior to women. This controversial statement forms the basis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, an 1879 play characterizing the journey of self-discovery, self-identity and a search for independence and freedom. The main character Nora struggles to free herself from the strict societal norms and a masculine-dominated household (Al Suhaibani 16). The story is contextualized in the 19th century when societal norms about marriage and familial relationships were litigious. Furthermore,…

Analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, a realistic drama, exemplifies not only the chauvinism most prevalent during the late 1800s, but also the notion of humanity’s problems as a whole. Dramas, like poetry and fiction, utilize literary elements that allow it to resonate with its readers while eclipsing simple storytelling. In A Doll’s House, Ibsen uses characterization, symbolism, and setting to immerse the reader into his world and unravel the corruption that hides…

Societal norms can be a brutal dictator. Throughout “A Doll’s House,” the audience sees how societal normalities are not necessarily a good thing. In this play, written by Henrik Ibsen in the 1870s, the ideas of gender roles, reputations and love are explored artfully. The play follows the lives of Nora and Torvald Helmer, as well as several of their friends and acquaintances: an old doctor, a young widow in need of a job, a bank employee, and a nursemaid. Torvald treats his wife, Nora, as a…

own business and bought her freedom by her herself. Keckley became well known because of her skills in dressmaking, and it landed her in the white house and that was how she started making the first lady’s dresses and became close with Mary Lincoln. Not only did Keckley talk about her life in her autobiography, she also talks mostly about the white house and the Lincoln’s family most especially, Mary Lincoln. Elizabeth Keckley wrote her autobiography, “Behind the…

work for: An Analysis of Kristine's Heroism in Ibsen's A Doll's House “I must have work or I can’t bear to live...” (Ibsen 33) In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, Mrs. Kristine Linde emerges as an empowering and self-sufficient hero by challenging societal and familial roles in 19th century Norway. Kristine did not necessarily follow societal expectations as she was looking for work and had nobody to care for. In A Doll’s House, Kristine searches for a “purpose in life” by looking for a job…

In A Doll’s House Ibsen uses the doll metaphor to develop the theme of entrapment and by extension to illuminate the social backdrop of the time period that gives rise to the many issues and conflicts between the characters in the play. Nora serves as a wife and mother, but not as an equal to Torvald; rather a majority of the protagonist’s stage time is spent as a doll: a weak obedient character with little individuality, her existence a compound of societal norms and the expectations of others,…

The play a dolls house has been written by Henrik Ibsen in the 19th century when women were seen as weak and feeble in comparison to men; women during this time period had very little real power and because of this Henrik Ibsen was criticised a lot for making the protagonist of his play a woman. Henrik Ibsen was a feminist and was against the very ideology that domestic work was meant entirely for women and that money matters was the man’s domain. Daily life in the Victorian era was very…

In Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, family, specifically the father, plays a significant role on the heroines, Elizabeth Bennet, Catherine Morland and Anne Elliot. The father held the most power in his daughter’s life because he has control over important life decisions such as her marriage proposals and relationships. Throughout all three novels, Jane Austen utilizes fathers, who have influential power over the heroines, to guide the heroines’ development and decisions.…