What could I say? I’m crying because I don’t know any of the dances?” Isabel also ends up sleeping with one of her bestfriend’s husband. Since she hasn’t had sex for awhile it was easy for her to fall into seduction. “And then he was in me and I was crying out, in pleasure… It was over and wrong… what would Liz say to me?” Besides the wrong she had done, Isabel is a good person at heart and tries to redeem herself by helping out the woman she hates most, Margaret Casey. “I had to cut myself off from the danger… Margaret had no manners.But I would help Margaret
I believe that when they first got married there was some kind of love in their relationship, but when they realized they could not conceive a child Don Elias blamed his wife. Even though it was most likely he was the infertile one, he treated her as if all she was good for was to take care of him like a maid. This is what made her a hard, bitter old woman. Dona Matilida believes it was her fault, and feels guilty about not being able to provide him with a child he so greatly desired. This caused her to turn a blind eye to what he was doing around town with other women.
Lena asserted, “I’ve hated ice cream almost all my life” (162). According to Lena’s mother, Ying-Ying, Lena has never liked ice cream because it seems to always make her sick. Therefore, Lena should not have to pay part of the items that she does not like. After the big fight over the cat that Harold gave Lena, she discovers the lack of emotional balance in their marriage. Harold posits, “You should pay for the exterminators, because Mirugai is your cat and so they’re your fleas.
With people tormenting her about her cousins who were teen moms, or her father who made a fool of his drunken self in public, the poor girl felt like nothing more than dirt, and she wanted to be thought of as flawless and beautiful. Edith dreamed of being a celebrity, she wished to be a perfect girl, and to live in a perfect world "in which only married women had babies, and in which men and women stayed married forever." The shacks in which Eddie grew up were less than desirable, and supposedly thought of as contemptible, by people of a higher social class. When Edith moved to the boarding house, with set meal times, she was quite ashamed to think of how people living in the shacks didn't have meal times, they simply found any food they could and ate by themselves when they were hungry. The potato-chip plant that Eddie worked at
Beatrice is cynical and witty; she doesn’t conform when it comes to the role of women in Elizabethan time. In terms of how males view females, there is a theme of cuckoldry (men who married unfaithful wives). This is shown in the first scene when Leonato confirms that Hero is his daughter, ‘Her mother hath many times told me so’, a joke at her expense, implying she is unfaithful to him. In a conversation between Claudio and Benedick, they talk about Hero. Claudio asks if he ‘noted’ her, Benedick tells him he did not, but he ‘looked on her’.
Although only one ending to the play A Dolls House by Heinrik Ibsen is widely known, Ibsen was forced to write an alternative ending, as many discontented directors wanted a happier ending to the play (Jens-Morten Hanssen). The alternate ending contains a very different message. In the original ending (see Appendix 1), Nora leaves her husband Torvald Helmer and her children behind simply to get away from Helmer’s overpowering and controlling actions towards her. This is very different to the alternate ending (see Appendix 2), where Nora feels obliged to stay with her husband for the sake of her children. This alternate ending seems to have an opposite resolution and message compared to the original ending.
He began his life liking his mother, but when she whipped him for dropping some eggs when he was performing magic, he lost all respect for her and came to thoroughly dislike her. She was very controlling and had bad mood swings. Because of her controlling and manipulative ways, Dunstan became isolated from and untrusting of Fifth Business .... out of disagreements. In the book Fifth Business written by Robertson Davies, Dunny can be called a neutral person. He tells us .... (690 3 ) Fifth Business ....
A Doll’s House In Henrick Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the main relationship we see is Nora Helmer and her husband Torvald Helmer’s. Their relationship is seemingly influenced by their era. When first reading the play, one may suggest that the women in this play are victims of this era. As the plot develops, we see that the relationship is also influenced by Nora’s lies, which suggest she was also a victimizer in her relationship, aside from her era. By the end of this play, we see how Nora’s secret changes the relationship between the couple, as she violates the stereotypical role-play as a wife and mother in her era, which generates her inspirational growth.
Through quotes from the book, the observation of womanhood is negatively seen by men in the play. It is true in history, women in royal families are somewhat sold to other nobles of state to aid their relationships diplomatically. Marriages by politics are common during thetime. It is used as a bond secondary to sending fortunes to increase the bond between nations and furthermore alliance. As Cordelia is sent to Duke of Burgundy as being banished from England, it is likely to say that she is banned from her father and her nation.
The author has expressed his own thoughts and ideas through the play and has presented a story of a woman using some characters. This play had aroused great controversy at that time because of its crucial attitude towards the marriage norms. There are many authors and people who have argued with the statement and play of Henrik Ibsen. This paper focuses on the views and ideas of different authors regarding the play “A Doll House” written by Henrik Ibsen (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dollhouse/themes.html). Author Henrik Ibsen was one of the best and major writers and directors of the 19th Century.