Transition And Reintegration In The Antelope Wife By Enridrich

Nora is introduced as a housewife who believes the true meaning of marriage revolving around obedience. She demonstrates the true definition of a respectful daughter, a faithful and obedient wife, and a dependable mother. It wasn’t unusual for Torvald to throw his weight around towards Nora. He attempts to limit her macaroon intake “Hasn’t nibbled some pastry,” (Ibsen 788) she replies, “You know I could never think of going against you” (Ibsen 788). In the eyes of Nora, he is considered a confident, powerful, and successful businessman since he is receiving a promotion as a bank manager after the New Year. Torvald’s sense of marriage can be summed up that he is the king of the castle “This is the way it should be my darling Nora. What-ever comes, you’ll see: when it really counts, I have strength and courage enough as a man to take the whole weight myself” (Ibsen 814). Torvald’s view is she is just a “doll” in his doll house. To him, it was important to stress there was no such thing as equality in their partnership, he

In the article “A Change of Heart About Animals”, Rifkin asserts that humans are treating animals in the most atrocious way, and he claims that in order for their lives to improve, we need to definitely adjust ours. He uses great amount of logos, and several experiments done with different animals and tries his best to closely relate animals to us, humans. Rifkin although, never inserts a call for action to this problem throughout his article. Instead, he puts the emphasis on the pathos of the argument. In the world we are living in today, there is about 8.7 million different living species. Whether they are land or marine animals, they do play a big role in our community such as being apart of the food pyramid, assisting handicapped people wherever they go, or being a transportation for people living on farms and fields. With this being said, the ranking of animals in our community has brought up a heated argument in connection to their rights and welfare. Eight legged, four legged, or two legged land or sea animals do not comprehend the concept of rights. If we, humans, give animals “rights”, we are basically inferring the fact that we are like animals, and they have the entitlement to share our rights. Although they don’t understand rights, the fact that many of these animals are being treated inhumanely is wrong and animal welfare should be ingrained into this community rather than the massive inhumane treatment.

Nora is trapped in her own house, in her own society as being a woman and the role they have. "I shall not allow you to bring up the children; I dare not trust them to you" (line 242). Torvald says to be own wife, taking away her most prized possession and the ones she loves the most and since she's a woman and Torvald is the man of the house, he is allowed to do it. One of Nora's friends, Mrs. Linden just married a man who recently passed away just for the money because women in that time aren't allowed to own the money that the family brings in, thinking Mrs. Linden would get all the money she got nothing. Then she meets Mr. Krogstad again and she's willing to sell her body once again for money and a way of living. "What a difference! Someone to work for and live for--a home to bring comfort into" (line 84). The book is complete brilliance, it shows that women are imprisoned inside their homes how Mrs. Linden has willing played a large part in this role towards the end of the

As Kingsolver predicted that readers would feel most sympathetic to this character, she chooses to have Leah marry a Congolese man from the village where the family lived. Kingsolver wrote this plot twist in an attempt to bridge the gap between two cultures, to show readers, and society as a whole, that while the cultures are different there is a common ground and there can be happiness, but it is not always so simple. The attempt to bridge the gap was evident in Leah ’s description of her and Anatole’s wedding, “At my request we were married in that room by the village chief, in a ceremony that was neither quite Christian nor Bantu. I asked for God’s blessing and carried red bougainvillea flowers for my mother. Aunt Elisabet draped around our shoulders the traditional marriage cloth called mole, a beautiful double-sized pagne that symbolizes the togetherness of marriage” (Kingsolver 221). Thought it was not the traditional marriage every white American girl dreams of having, for her it was everything she could have hoped for. With the flowers representing her culture, and the cloth representing Anatole’s culture, the two very different cultures are able to intermingle and readers are then able to see it as though they were there. Multiple chapters throughout the novel illustrate the struggles Leah and her Congolese family still experience while the rest of her American family had already left the Congo and moved on to easier living

The different activities during Isben’s time of staying in these countries are acted out into his plays, with one of them being “A Doll House,” resembling his time spent in Norway. He wrote plays that secretly described his own personal relations, including his relationship with his wife. Nora and Torvald’s relationship is a parallel to Isben and his wife’s. Isben and his wife faced difficulties of being honest to one another, and a reader can imply that Isben shared this with the audience through the use of the characters Nora and Torvald. In “A Doll House” Nora takes out a significant amount of money in loans in order to save her husband. This reveals how Isben’s wife “had troubles with the debt she owed for a trip, which she had dared to tell her husband about,” comparing to exactly how Nora handled her finances in the play (Koht 314). Nora somewhat symbolizes Isben’s wife being that his wife “hoped to pay off the loan with the money she found elsewhere without her husband finding out,” just like Nora did with signing her fathers name secretly without Mr. Helmer knowing (Koht 314). Isben’s found out that his wife “had wrote a forged note” and soon divorced her (Koht 315). We see the same thing happen in “A Doll House” when Nora decides to leave her family and husband behind. Isben’s work

The traditional standard of gender roles changes throughout the Novella. The first instance of this shift occurs once Edna meets Robert Leburn in Grand Isle. Edna and Robert’s relationship starts off friendly but soon shifts into a more passionate and intimate relationship. Throughout the summer, Edna begins to fall in love with Robert. Robert helps to fill the void left from Edna’s distance husband Leonce. Her marriage with Leonce is estranged, to the extent where Edna considers the marriage an “accidental marriage.” Leonce treats Edna as property and he spends most of his time traveling as part of work for his brokerage company. When Leonce is home, he prefers to go to the Klein Hotel to gamble instead of spending time with his wife and children. Leonce and Edna do not understand one another, as their relationship is more materialistic than passionate.

It is Nora as an individual cheated of her true rights that the dramatists first depicts, for her marriage, as she discovers in the crisis, has been merely material and not that spiritual tie Ibsen insists upon as the only happy on in this relationship. (Huneker 64)

Nora plays the part of a slave in her subservience to her husband, for she is supposed to

Betrayals of the husband in each story lead to the actions of each wife leaving. Both females did absolutely nothing wrong in their situations, but had the consequences put upon them and were forced to leave their homes. The husbands in both stories were able to remain home; with no shame from the public put upon them. In “Desiree’s Baby” the feeling of abandonment, from her husband, ended with a lack of love for her and their child by him. When

Animal science is a very broad topic. Form General Animal Science class I have learned that animal science is concerned with the science and also with the business to produce livestock such as cattle, horses, sheep, swine and poultry. In this course I have also learned that the scientists apply various genetic modifications on animal to increase production and management of livestock. To supply for the demand of animal in worldwide the industries of livestock are responsible for maintaining the well-being of the animals. The three concepts that I learned after taking this class are choosing the right breed of animal is necessary for mass production, genetic selection, and food safety.

Nora is treated like a child by Torvald, but she is accustomed to it and believes he loves her dearly. However, an important component of a successful and true marriage is trust, which is lacking in the Helmers’ marriage. Nora keeps a secret from Torvald while he is reluctant to trust her with money, let alone his reputation (Ibsen 2, 3, 13). When Torvald discovers that Nora has kept a secret from him, he is furious and takes away her right to raise the children without a second thought (Ibsen 83). However, while Torvald was throwing a fit, Nora comprehends that he has never loved her and that she was forcing herself to believe she loved him (Ibsen 87). Like Nora, Edna knew that she and her husband, Leonce, never loved each other; she thought he was her ticket out of her old life while he thought of her as his possession (Chopin 8, 29). Both Edna and Nora were raised to be obedient wives, but Edna, after her awakening, felt like marriage was “one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth” and did not try to save her marriage (Chopin 100). Love was sometimes not a factor that determined marriage; money and image was usually more preferred.

Marriage is a lot of work for two individuals who do not have the qualifications mastered. A marriage must be full of steady communication and cannot contain a spouse to be selfish. The attitudes portrayed among the couple determines a lot in their relationship. Throughout A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, readers can see how the lack of communication and honesty tore a marriage apart. Throughout the entire play, Torvald is treating Nora as if she is a child. He viewed her as nothing more than a beautiful yet fragile women. Torvald saw himself as the “king leader” of the household resulting in him not having much communication with his dear wife. The story gradually shows the fate in their marriage as Nora begins to

In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House play things was not what it seemed. It also teaches us a lesson on the consequences of having a marriage lacking trust and poor communication. The marriage of Torvald and Nora seemed normal like any other marriage in that time period. Torvald was the bread winner Nora was a house wife and she took care of their two children. Nora thought that the only thing she was missing to be the happiest person on earth was money, and all her problems were going to disappear. Since her husband was going to start a new job she believed that soon her dream was going to come true. All Nora wanted was to have a good life with her family, but what she did not know was that her secret was going to destroy her marriage with

Walter Ingram, Inez’s fiancé, visits Bianca and seeks her in marriage. Mr. Ingram is sketched thus: “He was a rather handsome young man of about twenty-four, with a frank countenance, fair hair, and pale blue eyes; his lips were full, but they lacked firmness; in stature he was of the middle height.” (Bianca, p.271) Bianca tells him plainly that she can give him nothing more than sisterly love and tires to console him. They meet a common acquaintance, Margaret Moore, the daughter of the widowed Lady Moore, who resides in the chief house of the village. Margaret, or ‘Maggie’ as Bianca calls her affectionately, urges Bianca to visit her home, and the latter agrees to this. In the evening, Bianca asks her father’s permission to go to Moore’s, but he is unwilling to consent to this visit until he hears that the grown up son of the house, Lord Moore, is away to London. Mr. Garcia is a self-respecting man and does not want that his daughter be accused of ‘husband-hooking’. But Bianca is already in deep love with this young

Her final goal was so important to her, protecting her family, she knew she had to do whatever was necessary, even if that meant not being true to her husband or society. In the end, she realizes that it was more important to her husband his reputation, than what it had meant to Nora, all she had done for the love of her family, concluding to the raw truth that her husband didn´t really love her: he loved what she represented before society, a loving, faithful wife that compelled to all his expectations. She knew that to love her children, she needed first to understand and love herself, a thought way beyond and ahead of time, for a woman in the late 1800´s.