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
Perhaps, Ophelia’s most prominent trait is her propensity to be totally utterly manipulated by other characters in the play. Most obviously by her father, Polonius, as he treats her on equal rank with his own finances "Think yourself a baby/ That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay/ Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly...or you'll tender me a fool" (Shakespeare, 1.3. 105-107). Ophelia exists at his beck and call, even ending her relationship with hamlet at his whim.
• ‘You aint ruined’ – sense that she is envious that the other farm girl can be no naive (could remind herself of her). Now she is seen as a second class citizen and cannot marry or have a family because she is married • ‘You blue and bleak face could’ - unhealthy because she is unhappy because she has no life or status DIDNT TAKE WHAT THEY WERE DOING SERIOUSLY • Although the reader is like to feel sorry for the poet, ‘we played’ tells us that she saw her loves as a game. Could suggest that she liked all the attention. • She saw them as toys too, ‘my hurdy gurdy monkey men’ • Now she realises what she has done wrong and is has set in she still shows now sign of sorrow, ‘o you didn’t know I’d been ruined’ the breezy tone is heavily ironic. • ‘You aint ruined’ – suggesting she was like her and wanted all these clothes and privileges
Similarly, as a doll can’t talk or hold opinions, Nora is not allowed to show her true feelings and must pretend everything is perfect to make “Torvald darling” happy. Interestingly enough, there is a notice at the beginning of the play to not use the possessive “A Doll’s House” because “the house is not Nora’s, as the possessive implies.” She lives in a man’s world, with man’s law. She is trapped in that house, and in that false sense of reality. But the foundation of the house does have some cracks. Some ideas of what the universal dramatic action of the play might be include: the discovery of the truth, the destruction, and ultimately, the transformation.
This relates back to being an unwanted child, because flowers are beautiful and to Baby these fake nails are probably beautiful. She never had anyone tell her what was beautiful and what was not because of the fact that her father was not there for her the way a father should be, and he made her feel unwanted and not to mention, she also grew up without a mother. Conflict is a major literary element used in this novel. O’Neill makes that come to life through many different quotes, such as “I hoped that part of his therapy wasn’t to give up his interest in me” (67). This is conflict because already Jules makes Baby feel like she is not loved and that she is unwanted and to her the fact that while he is at this rehabilitation center, trying to get better, he might forget about her and make her feel more unwanted, than she already is.
He and Esperanza were in love with each other but could not marry because of the different classes. Miguel was very poor but he was hard working and caring. An example of how Miguel was a caring person was when he took all of Esperanza’s money orders from Mr. Yakotas shop and then left Los Angeles and went to Aguascalientes to bring the money orders so that Abuelita so that she can come to the United States. Esperanza is a dynamic character; she changed throughout the story from starting as a little spoiled girl to becoming a poor understanding and caring young woman. Although Esperanza was dynamic, Mama and Miguel were static characters.
Torvald’s insistence on calling Nora by affectionately diminutive names evokes her helplessness and her dependence on him. He does not not only asserts his power over Nora but also dehumanizes her to a degree. When he implies that Nora is comparable to the “little birds that like to fritter money,” Nora is like Torvald’s dol she even decorates his home and pleases him by being a dependent figure with whose emotions he can toy.In addition to being something of a doll to Torvald, Nora is also like a child to him. He shows himself to be competing with Nora’s dead father for Nora’s loyalty. In a sense, by keeping Nora dependent upon and subservient to him, 5.
He is portrayed as a very uptight man and he speaks with great eloquence, especially when in public. After Mrs. Slump invited them to go “plumming, her father replied: “we feared to taste the sacred seed lest we be constrained to dwell forever in the nether regions” (Coates 100). The small girl longs for the wild plums and has a hard time understanding why her parents have banned this fruit. She does not comprehend the reasoning for ignoring the Slumps invitations since she feels that it would be rather fun to pick wild plums and sleep outside with other children her age. In “Wild Plums,” the small girl is an incredibly reliable source because she is too young to distinguish the social barrier between her family and the Slumps.
It has been stated that Nora Helmer of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is an ignorant, manipulative, and selfish woman who cares only about spending money and having “stacks and stacks” of it (Ibsen, 798). One can argue though, that Nora is a victim of the time in which she lived, and not simply an insensitive being. It was expected of women from Nora’s time and wealth to live with their fathers until they were married and moved in with their husbands, so it is only natural that Nora would have been shielded from important monetary decisions throughout her life. Women of the 1800’s were expected to marry, be housewives and mothers with the aid of servants, and do little else with their life, and many societies would chastise any woman who tried to stray from this ideal. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is a modern, well-made play that uses realism to convey the damages done to women and their relationships by these societal expectations of women in the late 1870’s.
CHARACTER TRAITS Natella is selfish. Natella is portrayed as a very self-concerned selfish character. Her constant concern for her own needs and wants leads her to even dislike her own son for his father’s constant attention to him. On the day of the coup, she was busy packing her finest dresses and when she left she forgot her own son. In the future, she comes back for Michael, her son in order to get the estates he was to inherit.