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        <title><![CDATA[Henrik Johan Ibsen began writing seriously in 1848 and wrote his first...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Henrik Johan Ibsen began writing seriously in 1848 and wrote his first play in 1849. He was twenty-one. Because of family misfortunes, Henrik Ibsen was apprenticed as an apothecary at age sixteen and moved from Skien, Norway, to Grimstad where he had a wish to enroll in the university to study medicine. It was in Grimstad, inspired by the 1848 European revolutions, that Ibsen began to write seriously, composing satire and poetry. He was about...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:17:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When in his life did lbsen decide to become a writer?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When in his life did lbsen decide to become a writer?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:43:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Characterize Noras decision to leave: is she justified? how do the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Characterize Noras decision to leave: is she justified? how do the children influence this decision?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nora was unaware of Dr. Rank's love for her for several reasons. Perhaps...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nora was unaware of Dr. Rank's love for her for several reasons. Perhaps first and foremost is the structure of society at the time. In the society in which Torvald and Nora lived, it would have been unthinkable for love to be demonstrated between people with no right to love, as is the case between a married woman and another man. It would be equally unthinkable for Nora to entertain the possibility of another gnetleman being in love with...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:49:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why was Nora unaware that Dr. Rank was in love with her?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why was Nora unaware that Dr. Rank was in love with her?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:06:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In A Doll's House Nora's experiences about being a wife are not being...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In A Doll's House Nora's experiences about being a wife are not being able to become independent. This is the way she is overpowered by her spouse. In the play, Nora remembers a lot about when she had to work to earn money.  She was happy then she felt like a man. During this time in history good women were not permitted to work.
In addition, the bank owner discriminates against Mrs. Lind.The bank owner asks Mrs. Lind if she is married. She...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:25:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How are woman overpowered by their men in the novels “One Hundred...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How are woman overpowered by their men in the novels “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “A Doll’s House”?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:57:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think the gender of males plays a huge part in this play. Men in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the gender of males plays a huge part in this play. Men in the 19th century valued three basic things: beauty, value, and money. Torvald is the picture perfect 19th century man.  He expected everything to be beautiful. His wife had to always look nice, so she could not eat chocolate. The house had to always look put together. And status was so important to him. That is why he could not let Nora get caught. He could not risk his pride...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:27:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #1: I disagree. I believe he plays a hugely important role...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #1: I disagree. I believe he plays a hugely important role in the play. He is a symbol for the life Nora yearns for. If she could be free and independent, she would be with Dr. Rank. He represents Nora's freedom. He also has important traits himself. He is a vulnerable character, who locks himself up to die. He is a nice counterpart to Nora, who is actually very strong as we can see when she leaves in the end. He helps Nora see...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:15:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nora did not have to leave. She did not have to leave her children and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nora did not have to leave. She did not have to leave her children and husband. Torvald made a mistake; he is human. He seemed that he had changed at the end of the play. Nora could have stayed and worked on her relationship. They could have acted as mature adults and talked through their problems. She abandoned her children just to be selfish. What are her children going to do know? Today, they would have to go through a lot of counseling...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:55:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My suggestion is: "Nora, No More" representative of her newfound...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/dolls-house/q-and-a/can-anyone-suggest-good-title-name-doll-house-an-101645</link>
        <description><![CDATA[My suggestion is: "Nora, No More" representative of her newfound independence. It encompasses the fact that she is not the same person she used to be. OR "The Rebirth of Nora" for obvious reasons. When you're trying to come up with a title, think about including some aspect of the character's personality or a word descriptive of what the play is about. Good luck! Hope you like my suggestion as I'm a free-lance writer/playwright. If you need...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:10:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #1: The ending of The Doll's House marks it as a then modern...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #1: The ending of The Doll's House marks it as a then modern day tragedy: There is no good ending. And that was part of Ibsen's point.
The Doll's House makes vividly clear that--human rights versus womens's right aside for the moment--women in that era had no legal rights and no rights to personhood outside of the auspice of a male figure, be it husband or father.
The tragedy is that if Nora wanted to continue the independence she...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:11:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[how does Nora in the short story a doll's house epitomize the ID in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how does Nora in the short story a doll's house epitomize the ID in freudian theory]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:41:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You could title the essay "The Prisioner Doll" or "The Doll in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You could title the essay "The Prisioner Doll" or "The Doll in the Porcelain Prison"  considering that she was trapped among her bric a brac, kids, servant, and all the material possessions she so valued. But if you want to just go straight to the point another good idea would be to call it "Nora: A Victim of Circumstances" which is exactly what she is by literal standards.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:12:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The letter box is the anchor of the story's foreshadowing of "something"...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/dolls-house/q-and-a/what-significance-letterbox-106201</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The letter box is the anchor of the story's foreshadowing of "something" that will be filtered through the everyday life of Nora and will change her forever. The moment we find out that she has been blackmailed, the letterbox becomes the center of attention: It is the potential agent of chance that Nora is dreading so much, and which will change the course of the story, and of her life.  Considering that letterboxes are the main key of...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:10:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I can assure you that I have seen enough cases which sadly show that a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I can assure you that I have seen enough cases which sadly show that a woman such as Nora still exists somewhere out there. In my case, I work closely with many young military wives. There have been many cases when they are forced to marry very young because they do not want their boyfriends (who are about to join the service) to leave without them. Fair enough. However, we encounter two persons about to undergo a major change: One will be a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:01:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Would any woman who is totally dependent on her husband's salary not be...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Would any woman who is totally dependent on her husband's salary not be similar to Nora?  I don't think you'll find a character/caricature like Nora in our world, but you will find elements of Nora and her situation in many relationships.  The violence in DH is not physical, but emotional; would some of the physically/abusive relationships not resemble Nora's?  And what about trophy wives? 
The play MAY be dated in the sense that Nora...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The fact that Torvald monitors even what Nora eats shows the degree of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/dolls-house/group/discuss/nora-macaroons-63873?start=10#18</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The fact that Torvald monitors even what Nora eats shows the degree of his obsessive control. That she feels it necessary to pretend to follow his orders rather than standing up for herself shows how thoroughly he has intimidated her. For her to continue to eat what she wants, however, shows that she may be intimidated, but he hasn't broken her spirit entirely or destroyed her identity entirely. Nora still owns enough of herself to eventually...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:57:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Of course it is Torvald's fault.  It was destined to be Torvald's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Of course it is Torvald's fault.  It was destined to be Torvald's fault.  It has to be Torvald's fault.  Torvald embodies everything that Ibsen protested.  He fully accepts the social pressures of Victorian society without question.  He dehumanizes women by treating them as pets, as something to be owned.  He overemphasizes the importance of material objects. Torvald is Victorian society.  In order for Nora to break away from these...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:12:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I believe Ibsen wrote the play more as a commentary or criticism of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I believe Ibsen wrote the play more as a commentary or criticism of the pressures and mores of Victorian society than as an outright feminist discourse.  The feminism that arises comes simply from Ibsen's protest of Victorian society.  To say that it was the sole or even the primary focus takes away from the plight of Dr. Rank, Korgstad, and even Torvald.  Each of these characters is, in some way, restrained or severely subjected to the...]]></description>
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