House of Plantagenet

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.…

CS- CENTRE STAGE CRS- CENTRE RIGHT STAGE CLS- CENTRE LEFT STAGE USC- UPPERSTAGE CENTRE USR- UPPERSTAGE RIGHT USL- UPPERSTAGE LEFT DSC- DOWNSTAGE CENTRE DSR- DOWNSTAGE RIGHT DSL- DOWNSTAGE LEFT SCRIPT: ACT Scene 1 Setting: Backyard of Anil’s house Characters: Narrator 1, Narrator 2, Anil, Mother (Light is on. Enter Narrator 1 and Narrator 2. They go to DSL and sit on a bench. A sound of wind whistling can be heard. A backdrop of a field is shown. Sound continues until both narrators…

Arousal of Political Realism in Mahasweta Devi’s “MOTHER OF 1084” Abstract Political realism has generally related to the actual or correct picture of events and most classically in the region of literature, art, and film. In Mother of 1084Sujata, the central figure is a misfit in her own family. Though she is well aware of the corrupt degenerated values represented by her husband Dibyanath, she fails to disconnect herself with them and leads a compromising life. She loves her younger son, Brati…

Susan Glaspell, born in 1876 was an American play writer, novelist, journalist, and actress. In her time, she wrote many short stories and plays which began appearing in magazines and journals. One of Glaspell’s best works was a one-act play called Trifles written and performed in 1916. While working as a journalist for Des Monines Daily News, she covered the 1900 murder of John Hossack which is where she received the inspiration for the loosely based play and in 1917 was turned into a short…

of the universe to every guy she didn’t marry “gracious you talk as though all of my admirers had turned up their toes to the daises!” (Menagerie, 9) and that she should be treated like that by everyone. She believes that since she’s an old single house wife she must be taken care of by her children. This is shown on how she how she hopes to get her daughter Laura married of to someone with wealth. Amanda is so set on this dream for Laura that she forgets about her issues when gets Tom to invite…

happened to you these days? You sit at home all day. Never go out. You’ve forgotten all your swimming and sports. . . . (116) Being disenchanted with Devadatta’s body, Padmini craves for Kapila again. She goes out of Devadatta’s house and arrives at Kapila’s door. She has been appositely compared to a river which “only feels the pull of the waterfall” (127). Padmini is spontaneously drawn towards Kapila. She can hardly control herself. When Padmini quite emotionally…

During the book The Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens presented us with many themes throughout the novel. I decided to incorporate the central themes Fate, History and Sacrifice, because those select themes stood out the most to me during this novel. I chose sacrifice as a theme due to the fact that Dickens presented it to us as a necessity to achieve happiness. During the novel the revolutionaries prove that a new french republic can come about with only a heavy and terrible cost and emotion…