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The Doll's House
The upper-class Burnells consider the fact that the father of the Kelvey children is absent and rumored to be in prison the most "awful" thing about them. In Katherine Mansfield's story, upper- and...
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Literature
Considering that Aunt Beryl's character denotes a high degree of bias against the Kelvey sisters, it is likely that her story would have been less about a doll's house and more about "the incident"...
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The Doll's House
Snobbery is depicted in Mansfield's "The Doll's House" with the social stratification described in the narrative and with the spoken words and actions of the Burnells. After "dear old Mrs. Hay" has...
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The Doll's House
The Kelvey girls are from the lower class, whereas the other girls in the story are from families of a higher social status. It is important to note the setting of this short story is a small...
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The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield's story "The Doll's House" has an omniscient narrator who enters the minds of different characters at various points in the story. With this technique, Mansfield intently...
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The Doll's House
The answer is that Else, who is the younger sister of Lil, felt happy because she was able to see the famous, miniature oil lamp that was part of the decoration of the Burnell sisters' doll's...
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The Doll's House
The narrative point of view of Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Doll’s House” is third person omniscient. This means that the narrator tells the story without including herself in it,...
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The Doll's House
Aunt Beryl comes from the Burnell family. This family is of a certain income level, much higher than the Kelveys. Aunt Beryl believes that class distinctions are important. She doesn't think the...
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The Doll's House
The lamp in the story “The Doll’s House, ” by Katherine Mansfield, stands out in the eyes of Kezia as something so unique that it is worthy of telling everyone about it. In turn, Kezia’s...
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The Doll's House
For me, the most important cultural contexts to keep in mind when reading Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is the patriarchal norms and standards concerning female agency and the institution of...
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The Doll's House
The characters in the short story "The Doll's House" are the following: Lil Kelvey- the older of the two Kelvey sister. She is often seen in a protective role, as Else Kelvey always follows her...
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The Doll's House
In Mansfield's "The Doll's House," the Burnell children are not allowed to associate with the Kelvey girls. The Burnell girls are members of the upper-class and a family friend (Mrs. Hay) has sent...
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The Doll's House
At first sight, the doll house dazed the Kelveys, especially Lil, who was utterly amazed. “There it is,” said Kezia. There was a pause. Lil breathed loudly, almost snorted; our Else was still...
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The Doll's House
The two social class descriptions that are present in Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Doll's House" are the upper class, which is represented by the Burnell sisters, and the very poor, lower...
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The Doll's House
The story "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, shows several instances in which the girls at the school are quite cruel and humiliating to the Kelvey sisters. The first evidence of this is...
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The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Doll's House" shows that people will always gravitate toward those who are considered social or financial "betters". The Burnell girls, who are rich and come...
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The Doll's House
The Doll's House is a beautiful short story written by Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield is the best artist in portraying the trivial activities of men. In this story she reveals the cruelty of...
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The Doll's House
In the story "The Doll's House," by Katherine Mansfield, the reactions of the school teacher toward the Kelvey sisters essentially describe someone who has very little compassion toward those who...
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The Doll's House
Kezia stands out from her two sisters, Isabel and Lottie, in many ways. We notice early in the story that she possesses a deeper sense of aesthetic susceptibility in that her immediate focal point...
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The Doll's House
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The Doll's House
In Katherine Mansfield's story "The Doll's House", the characters are divided into two groups: those who are innocent to social class and status, and those who are not. Since the prevalent theme in...
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The Doll's House
The setting of the story "The Doll's House" is very influential to the plot. The story is set in New Zealand during the early 1920s, when the country was still a British colony. As such, the...
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The Doll's House
The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield is a short story with a familiar theme. The reader recognizes the superior tone and the hypocritical behavior of the opinionated Aunt Beryl and the rest of...
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The Doll's House
A story that depicts the cruelty of class distinctions, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield presents the archetype of the Innocent in the smallest Kelvey girl, called our Else-- a tiny...
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Miss Brill
One noteworthy thing about all of Katherine Mansfield's writings is that she is generally less concerned about plot than she is about her characters and the themes she wants to convey. The themes...
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The Doll's House
"The Doll's House", by Katherine Mansfield, is a story that treats the topics of social inequality, injustice, money as a tool of power, the shallowness of human dynamics. Social inequality,...
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The Doll's House
Your argument on how the Burell's doll house represents the upper class society is certainly accurate. There are several examples from the story that we can extrapolate to demonstrate exactly how...
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The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield's short story about the unfairness of social classicism, "The Doll's House", features as main characters two poor and socially disenfranchised little sisters, named Lil Kelvey...
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The Doll's House
In "The Doll's House", the character of Lil is described through the point of view of a third person narrator omniscient that explains with somewhat of a "personal" touch how different Lil looks in...
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The Doll's House
When people suffer from social alienation, as it is in the case of some cultural groups for example, the observable tendency is that those who have been alienated will come together, using their...
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The Doll's House
The attitudes that are regarded as those of typical adults are those that come in direct conflict with those of the children. Despite of being rich and privileged, the Burnell sisters bypass social...
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The Doll's House
The doll's house is a symbol of class division. It is so because it is a unique gift which is expensive, detailed, and mostly appreciated by those who can afford such a gift. The importance lies on...
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The Doll's House
In Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Doll's House", the character of aunt Beryl epitomizes the classicist nature of a society where the comforts and luxuries of the upper classes are...
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The Doll's House
The difference in Kezia's character from her two sisters focuses on the way that she, unlike her older two sisters, has yet to learn of the sharp social divisions that divide her society from...
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The Doll's House
"The Doll's House", a story by Katherine Mansfield, treats the topic of social injustice and class distinction under the scope of two different children, Kezia and Else, reacting to something that...
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The Doll's House
It is clear that this story is written in response to social and class divisions that leave some people shunned and excluded from the rest of their community. This is clearly shown in this story...
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The Doll's House
The inciting incident in this brilliant short story is outlined to us in the first few lines of the tale, when we see the way in which a gift can be used to heighten social divisions and...
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The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield’s 1922 short story, The Doll's House, replicates the title of Ibsen’s famous play. The Burnell girls are given a doll’s house and their schoolmates wish to see it. Because...
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The Doll's House
The oil lamp in the story "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, is the object entirely catches the attention of Kezia Burnell: A privileged young girl who receives the gift of a doll's house...
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The Doll's House
This is an interesting idea. However, I must be honest. The fact that the dolls are only mentioned once in the entire short story and that they are given a very cursory description suggests to me...
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The Doll's House
I would want to refer to the way that the other girls in the school react to Isabel's anouncement that she had something special to tell them at playtime. It is clear that the response to this and...
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The Doll's House
Katherine Mansfield's story "The Doll's House" depicts life in two separate and distant social classes: The very wealthy rich and the very unfortunate poor coexisting as children in a school. The...
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The Doll's House
Central to understanding the story is realising how Mansfield is using the Kelvey sisters and the way they are treated to point out how cruelly class distinctions lead others to treat those who...
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The Doll's House
Genre is a word that refers to any category or identifiable type of literature or art form. Of course, there are many different types of genres around, and you might like to think about the way in...
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The Doll's House
Most definitely. I cannot think of any work of literature that does not actually have some form of conflict that drives it, and this excellent short story by Mansfield is no exception. As with many...
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The Doll's House
This excellent story is as much about social division as it is about anything else. The doll's house, which becomes the status symbol for the Burnell girls, emphasises that, even amongst children,...
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The Doll's House
One of the central themes of "The Doll's House" is how society operates and how some are included and others excluded. Clearly, in the story, it is the Kelvey's that are excluded in this world -...
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The Doll's House
One of the ways in which the central theme of "The Doll's House" is established and confirmed throughout this fascinating tale is through the use of names. We are presented in this short story with...
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The Doll's House
In this excellent story there are actually very few round characters. Remember that a flat character can be compared to a paper doll - they are two dimensional, with only one or two key personality...
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The Doll's House
Central to understanding this excellent short story is that Kezia and Else are part of the same society, but also come from two different worlds in terms of their class. This is why the Burnells...