Renn In Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness

Nicole Renard was a major part of Heroes from the beginning where she is an innocent girl to being a corrupted character. In the book Nicole was very important, so important in fact that without her there wouldn’t be a story. Nicole is friendly and innocent in the beginning of the book. She then got corrupted and turned into a broken distressed girl who had trouble remembering the tragedy.

She gains her independence and saves her husband. However, her reputation is nearly destroyed after Torvald finds out she forged the letter. Nora asking, “It is indiscreet, to save your husband’s life,” knows that she sacrificed a lot to save Torvald (Ibsen 1029). Nora believes she saved Torvald’s life, she also believes that if he knew then their lives would never be the same. If Torvald knew Nora had taken out a loan, he would feel indebted to her and that would be humiliating to his masculinity, while disrupting their “happy” home life. However, Nora relinquished many of the things that meant a lot to her. Nora forged her father’s signature risking her and Torvald’s reputation. She also takes on all the debt herself, paying it off with her spending money. Nora will not be able to buy as much for herself with the debt revealing her willingness to sacrifice wealth for Torvald’s wellbeing. Just as Cyrano sacrifices his life to send letters to Roxane, Nora sacrifices her happiness and reputation to save Torvald. This shows Nora’s devotion and unconditional love towards Torvald. Both Cyrano and Nora are risking their lives for someone they love. As Cyrano repeatedly risks his life for Roxane, Nora feels as though her “duties to herself” are more valuable than her devotion to anyone else as she states, “aren’t they your duties to your husband and children?... Duties to myself…” (1076). Nora has gone through a kind

Nora finds strength in realizing her failure, resolving to find herself as a human being and not in what society expects of her. Nora’s recognition comes when Torvald so

While Jeannette was in New York she met new people and was bettering herself. Although, she did not live in a good neighborhood she did not let that effect her negatively and she said “I got jumped a number of times. People were always telling me that if I was robbed, I should hand over my money rather than risk being killed. But I was darned if I was going to give some stranger my hard-earned cash, and I didn't want to become known in the neighborhood as an easy target, so I always fought back” (Walls 248). #Jeannette stood up for herself in these situations and she did whatever it took to get through them. Most people would not fight back and just give the person what they wanted but she never did. She became familiar with this and used it to her advantage to defend

This quote is a flashback from an elderly Vianne, and it is the first line in the book. This quote foreshadows the effect that war has on many characters, and how such a horrible event can put everything under a microscope and show the courageous battles fought, and not just by the soldiers. War is an abhorrent event that has the ability to destroy everything. That is no different in the novel The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. The Nightingale is about two French sisters, Vianne and Isabelle Rossignol and tells their stories while living in a German-occupied France. Right from the very beginning, it seems that the two sisters have completely opposite characteristics. When Vianne was 14 and Isabelle was 4 their mother died. This is obviously a very emotional time for the two and they both cope with the death of their mother in very different ways. Vianne is forced to take over the mother role which is courageous at any age, but at 14 it is simply gallant:“You will be the mother now. Her father said to Vianne while her eyes were swollen from crying, her grief unbearable”(7). Vianne did not even have the opportunity to cope with her mother's loss before she had to fill her mother's shoes, whose shoes were not easy to fill by any means. Isabelle on the other hand is a fiercely rebellious girl who refuses to listen to anyone. She is expelled from a dozen boarding schools throughout her teenage years, and she is unwilling to settle down and be the proper lady her father so desperately wishes her to be. At the beginning of the novel, both sisters appear to have distinctive differences in regard to their personality and values.

Another function that Dr. Rank serves is that of reflecting upon the true personalities of Nora and Torvald. Rank's friendship with Nora and Torvald is thought to be the same, yet they are independently different. Nora is able to talk more seriously with Rank then she is with Torvald. This aspect of Rank's friendship with Nora becomes evident in her statement:

Another main difference between Torvald and Nora is how much their self-image matters to them individually. Nora's self-image is the complete opposite of Torvalds. From Nora's perspective she doesn't have much of an image to produce, but she does have the image of herself that Torvald can see along with her close friends. She really cares about what her husband thinks about her so she does whatever she can to make sure that his opinion doesn’t change, she gets worried by how she will look in his eyes after he finds out about the crime she has committed, this is why she tries to stop Torvald from sending Krogstad his notice, "Call it back, Torvald! There's still time. Oh, Torvald, call it back!..."(1304) Nora acts like this because once Torvald finds out what she has done, she knows that he is going to look at her a different way than what he does now. Nora doesn’t want this so she tries preventing Torvald from doing his job. On the other hand, Torvald cares a lot about the way others look at him, he thinks that once people find out what his wife has done that it will destroy his reputation and people will tend to look down upon him. When he finds out about what his wife has done

personality while comparing him to Theseus. The main characters are not the only aspect of this

A counterarguement to these examples, reveals, Noras, true determination. Her trying everything she can to confirm that her husband will not find out about the money. By going to this extent she shows her true love for him and how she willl do anything to make sure he is happy and they are together. Nora, knows once he finds out about the loan then she will not have the ability to see her kids, have a house or have a husband. She is going to an extent not many would for the ones that she

In any circumstances, life isn’t fair, but in Ren’s case he has to deal with one hand the rest of his life, struggle without a family or a mother figure, and learn how to rebel against what he was taught his whole life at Saint Anthony’s to become a thief.

ruined my whole future.?(Ibsen 916). Torvald has no compassion for her. He does not care that she took out the loan to save his life. Torvald just wants to order Nora around. His love is not true, but it is an angry petty obsession.

While everyone agrees that Robinson Crusoe is a resourceful character, some people say that Robinson Crusoe is an admirable character while others disagree. Robinson Crusoe is an admirable character for three reasons. He devotes himself to growing his spiritual life, he is resourceful and a diligent worker, and he cultivates a spirit of thankfulness and contentment.

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Marianne’s display of responsibility is not consistent, and is very different than her sister’s; unlike Elinor, Marianne lives a

That fact that she did not deny a deed that was going to get her killed is courageous and strong, however, the choice to bury Polynices and listen to her heart and the gods rather than the law of the land is an entirely different strength all together. On the same token, Nora who was a suppressed woman in 1879 took out a loan to save her husband’s life and while Mrs. Linden – Nora’s old school friend– was bragging about all her accomplishments as a woman in the later 1800’s Nora tells her “I saved Torvalds life” (Ibsen 150). This has importance because that initially shows strength. In the beginning this shows courage and even when she explains later on about the loan she still seems to be strong. To have to hide something from your husband, the man you are suppose to love and share everything with, seems courageous as well as bold especially for a woman who had basically no rights. Another bolder statement from Nora comes in the end when Nora and Torvald are sitting down to talk about the loan and how this was going to affect their relationship Nora says “That is why I am now leaving you”(Ibsen 198). Women could barely work during the 1800’s. It was hard to get hired and looked down upon for a woman to “do a man’s job”. It was the husband’s job to take care of a woman, his wife, and