Henrik Ibsen

After being assigned to practice All Quiet on the Western Front duties for chapter two as homework, Mr. and Mrs. Davis set out to perform thorough checks to ensure that everybody has done their jobs. The assignment was honestly quite tedious, but it has given students a firm grasp on the understanding of the book. Mrs. Davis gave a clear explanation of what was going to transpire while they went around class for any time All Quiet on the Western Front work was due. While they checked, the…

Professional Ethics Vs. Morals In some cases, people have to ignore their personal morals in order to remain ethical in regards to their professions. When I was a young girl, my mother married a very well known and successful attorney. My step father had a prideful way about himself. He had a stern voice and stood tall, as if he was balancing a stack of books on his head. I thought as if this man could be made of stone, that was until one day he came home from a long day of court. My new…

The characters in the play Othello by Shakespeare depict different attributes from revenge to love. The behavior of Lago is the subject of analysis of the essay. Lago’s attitude towards women and Othello is appalling. He feels an obligation to serve Othello while also accusing him for having an affair with his wife. In Act one, scene three, Lago believes that Othello has slept with his wife. He states; “it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets/ he has done my office” (1.iii.286). Lago is the…

being soley and completely dependent upon the husband leaves Nora to be underappreciated and oppressed. Nora is only able to break away from the depreciation of her character when she flees the Helmer household in order to “learn to be competent” (Ibsen, 1758). Nora’s abandonment of her wifely duties to Torvald and motherly duties towards her children free her up to discover herself, allowing her to tend to her duties to herself as a human being. If Torvald instead treatsNora as an equal human…

In our small world, there is something you can do to improve things. In the story “Thank you Ma’am” it talks about how Mrs.Jones a working class woman who helps Roger, a boy that stays alone in night and steals. She takes him in her apartment and tries to improve him. She helps him to choose a better path in life. The author compares two people that are in poverty. He describes that even two people of the same class can help each other and they can show kindness, honesty, sincerity and other…

Abstract Anton Chekhov, the Russian Dramatist delineated the texture of everyday life in his plays. He articulates for people the still small voice of the heart rather than the fanfare of great historical events. His preoccupation with individual joys and sorrows is not divorced from his intense awareness of the social realities that birthed them. Chekhov's basic theme in his plays is the twilight of a social order in decay, the malaise that precedes great social changes, the disintegration…

Should there or should there not be a social class system? That is the question at hand in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion; even though Shaw does not directly state this question, nor the answer to this question in the play’s five acts. It is blatantly made clear, though, that one of Shaw’s primary goals was to influence society to question itself for what it had developed for a social class system. Shaw himself states: I am, and have always been, and shall now always be, a revolutionary…

Foreshadowing is using something earlier in the play to let the audience have an idea what the play will lead to. Ibsen does not waste any time to use foreshadowing as we see it in the very first line. “Hide” is the very first of the line. As the play goes on, Nora has taken money out of the bank and hides it from Torvald to keep him from getting mad. The moment Torvald…

In The Wrysons, the parents co-exist in a life without true honesty, which is centered around society’s predetermined gender roles. Donald and Irene Wryson are content with their lives, but there are difficulties that Donald experiences that interrupt his ideas of a jubilant life. Cheever’s short stories are set in the mid 1900s, which is an era that centers around gender expectations. Men are not expected to know anything about cooking in the kitchen or cleaning the house, yet Donald knows how…

Les Belles-Soeurs is a story of the struggle of the lower-middle class. Les Belles-Soeurs is a play about a group of women in Montreal who are just trying to get by in their mediocre lives. The women take advantage of each other, and seem to be friends only because of their proximity to each other. The women interact as though they are all just there because of their circumstance, not because they chose to be in their situations. This causes the women to act selfishly, ignoring common courtesy,…