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- 851: Dollshouse
- ... through other means; either the lottery or other indiscreet means. It wasn t expected that women with a little business know-how could derive ways to earn or borrow money. Torvald treats Nora like a doll. He calls her by all manner of names: squirrel, silly child, lark, songbird. The names he uses directly relates to how Torvald feels about her at the time. He tends to treat her views and ... any threat against me, only for what might damage you when all the danger was past, for you it was as if nothing had happened. I was exactly the same, your little lark, your little doll that you d have to handle with double care now that I d turned out so brittle and frail. Torvald in that instant it dawned on me that I ve been living with a stranger ... Even her husband views it that way. In the nineteenth century if a wife deserts her husband, the law frees him from all responsibility. Nora states on page 1610 When a wife deserts her husbands house, just as I m doing, then the law frees him from all responsibility. In any case I m freeing you from being responsible. Torvald and society s expectations of women in the nineteenth century ...
- 852: Ernest Miller Hemingway
- ... Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his ... and was given a medal for his heroism. Ernest returned home after the war, rejected by the nurse with whom he fell in love. He would party late into the night and invite, to his house, people his parents disapproved of. Ernest's mother rejected him and he felt that he had to move from home. He moved in with a friend living in Chicago and he wrote articles for ...
- 853: Developement Of Europe
- ... inside themselves. This rejection of the material excess is embodied by many of the authors and artists of the time. For instance, the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsens character of Nora in his play A Dolls House is the perfect example. Noras rejection and leaving of her loveless and oppressive marriage shows the shrugging off of the will of the society in exchange for ones own happiness. Another good example ... The Weimar Republic attempted to make Germany democratic. Unfortunately, hard economic times make it harder for political changes to take hold. Weimars political system, a bicameral parliament and a chancellor responsible to the lower house, appear similar to that of Britain. However, many people felt nostalgia for imperial glory and a contempt for parliamentary politics. The far Right had the support of the wealthy landowners and businessmen, white-collar ...
- 854: Creative Writing: A Sunday
- ... Think. Thinks. -In a bank. He works in a bank. -Yeah? Grins. Proud of me Jack. Can still do it. Think on the spot. Forget how to in there. Jenny Oliver with her faded blue doll eyes and pale pouched face. Standing still like she's suddenly remembered something and there is a thin stream of urine slowly slowly running down her legs making a skant dark yellow puddle on the ... from her bag and wraps it around her head. It is almost finished. Now the last part. She finds the taxi stand beside the memorial and she directs the driver. She will tell him the house. Visiting-my-son. On the orchard. Lovely day. And soaring over the familiar road. Nearly. Nearly home. Around the curves and past the pines and the school and the store and the pub and here ... She likes to walk. Somebody is expecting me. Somebody is waiting for me. She waits until the car turns and then she begins to walk down the gravel road. She doesn't look at the house. It is not the same any more and nobody is there. This is her home, this is the place that she loves. Here, where each season is sharp and so defined it is a ...
- 855: The Stone Angel and The Fifth Business: Analysis of the Main Characters
- ... Business, for whom the snowball was intended, feels extremely guilty because he knew that Percy Staunton with whom he had earlier a fight, would throw one final snowball at him before he goes into the house for supper. To avoid the coming snowball he dodges around pregnant Mrs. Dempster who at the same time gets hit on the head, causing her great pain. Dunny is just reaching puberty and listening to ... snowball incident as Hagar couldn't stand the fact she was the cause of her mother's death. Hagar didn't like mentioning that subject and when she did she quickly changed to another, "Auntie Doll...had been with us since my birth." (Davies 4) She didn't like to tell anyone about her mom's death, "He did not marry after our mother died..." (Laurance 14) Hagar was ashamed of ... what he had done to her, "I hadn't much of a heart for this selection, being at the time too angry with Father either to mourn his death or want the stuff from his house." ( Laurence 55) She blamed herself for not forgiving him while she could. Ramsay could not mourn his parents either, he felt even happy that they were dead, "It was years before I though of ...
- 856: Gender Socialization
- ... may wear a bow in their hair and flowered pajamas. As the boy begins to grow, he is given a miniature basketball and a hoop to play with. The girl is given dolls an d doll clothes to dress them up in. Even going further, eventually the boy may play with Legos and Lincoln Logs and the girl gets a PlaySchool oven and a plastic tea set with which to play house. Sounds pretty normal right? Why? As illustrated in the not-so-fictional scenario above, gender socialization begins very early in life. Society has accepted such stereotypical things as baby boy blue and baby girl pink ... the boys only perform three household chores to earn their weekly allowance whereas the girls are performing twel ve or more. Why are the girls expected to do four times as much work around the house than the boys are? Chodorow writes that a young boy is usually unable to identify with his masculinity through his father. The father isnΥt as readily available to th e boy as the mother. ...
- 857: Creative Writing: A Sunday
- ... Think. Thinks. -In a bank. He works in a bank. -Yeah? Grins. Proud of me Jack. Can still do it. Think on the spot. Forget how to in there. Jenny Oliver with her faded blue doll eyes and pale pouched face. Standing still like she's suddenly remembered something and there is a thin stream of urine slowly slowly running down her legs making a skant dark yellow puddle on the ... from her bag and wraps it around her head. It is almost finished. Now the last part. She finds the taxi stand beside the memorial and she directs the driver. She will tell him the house. Visiting-my-son. On the orchard. Lovely day. And soaring over the familiar road. Nearly. Nearly home. Around the curves and past the pines and the school and the store and the pub and here ... She likes to walk. Somebody is expecting me. Somebody is waiting for me. She waits until the car turns and then she begins to walk down the gravel road. She doesn't look at the house. It is not the same any more and nobody is there. This is her home, this is the place that she loves. Here, where each season is sharp and so defined it is a ...
- 858: Fahrenheit 451
- ... and imaginative seventeen-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She tells him of a time when firemen used to put out fires instead of making them. After that, Montag and the other firemen burn a house filled with books and burn its owner. "They crashed the front door and grabbed at a women, though she was not running , she was not trying to escape." (38). This incident makes Montag start to ... is in a book."(80). In doing this he gets wiser and learns more about famous poets and writers. This changes his out look on life. His secret gets discovered and the firemen burn his house which is where the books are thought to be. The climax is when Montag turns to Captain Beatty with the flame thrower and says " We never burned right" and then sets him on fire, killing him. "Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent."(119). Montag then barely escapes the fire station's deadly mechanical hound, by jumping in the river and floating down stream, disguising his scent. "Then he dressed in Faber's old ...
- 859: Audens Dystopia - The Merchant
- Auden, W.H. "Brothers and Others." "The Dyer's Hand" and Other Essays. New York: Random House, 1948. In a casual but seminal essay on the play, Auden calls The Merchant of Venice one of Shakespeare's "Unpleasant Plays." The presence of Antonio and Shylock disrupts the unambiguous fairy-tale world of ... world. Portia sits there weary and bored, waiting for the brave suitor who would agree to risk all for her. She is the perfect woman, wrought of both intelligence and beauty; she is like a doll trapped in Wonderland. In addition to those materialistic qualities, she is also a faithful daughter. She dutifully holds true to her father's dying wish and allows her suitors to be chosen by a lottery ... would not choose the right casket, and thus might lose all. Dear Portia is innocently waiting in Belmont for love. In Venice, daughters do not have deep faiths in their fathers. Tired of her "hell" house, Jessica elopes with Lorenzo. Perhaps she does so to ameliorate her status in the orthodox world; she seeks conversion to Christianity in order to justify her hated past Jewish life. Semitism is despised in ...
- 860: Earth 2 Puzzle
- ... Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. She was a dreamer who was upset at anything which disturbed her perception of the world as beautiful. She hated dirty diapers, upset stomachs, and cleaning house; they were not fit for a lady. She taught her children to always act with decorum. She adored the singing of the birds and the smell of flowers. Her children were expected to behave properly and to please her, always. Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his ... and was given a medal for his heroism. Ernest returned home after the war, rejected by the nurse with whom he fell in love. He would party late into the night and invite, to his house, people his parents disapproved of. Ernest's mother rejected him and he felt that he had to move from home. He moved in with a friend living in Chicago and he wrote articles for ...
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