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Greek Drama and the Modern Production, 2002.
A paper which examines the Aeschylean, Sophoclean and Euripidean styles of Greek Drama and how the relate to modern drama productions.
884 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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The paper examines and analyzes three distinct styles of Greek drama, focusing on the Sophoclean style by giving several examples in drama history such as "Oedipus" and the modern movie, "A Few Good Men". By comparing these styles to what a modern audience expects of a film or play, the paper shows that the Sophoclean style is the most suitable for a modern production.
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"This shows the main aspect that makes the Sophoclean approach the most suitable style for a modern audience, the character focus. The Sophoclean styles focuses on the main character as the driving force of the play. This is the same approach taken by modern films and plays, where the plot of the play is based on the struggle of the main character. This usually involves a likeable character being presented with some problem and ultimately either overcoming this problem or learning from it. Importantly, the audience forms a relationship with the main character, with this involving the audience in the action. The film Titanic is a good model example of this. As history shows, the main event the movie is based on is the sinking of the ship and the drowning of hundreds of people. Yet, the film does not focus on this to engage the audience and drive the plot. Instead, the plot focuses on the story of Rose and Jack."
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"Taming of the Shrew", 2002.
This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the play "Taming of the Shrew," by William Shakespeare.
1,525 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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The paper shows that the play "Taming of the Shrew" is a classic Shakespearean comedy in every sense in that it is not only funny and amusing for the audience, but also it contains themes they can connect with such as love and beauty. It shows that in Shakespearean Comedy, a shallow, often narcissistic type of love at the start is not only grounded too heavily in ?beauty? of the conventional sort, but also leads to a mistaken notion of what beauty really is.
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"Love of course is a central theme in the play, but from the first, Shakespeare shows this is not your "typical" love match. "At times Petruchio behaves like a bully and a brute, and his tactics with Katherine can be read as gratuitously severe and prolonged tormenting of her" (Brown, 1995, p. 286). Kate does not want to marry, and Petruchio seems to be more interested in the lands he will acquire than specifically in Kate's hand. Yet, he sets out to tame her, and is taming her, he falls in love with her."
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Giuseppe Verdi?s "Otello", 2002.
This paper discusses in detail Giuseppe Verdi?s opera, "Otello," based on the play by William Shakespeare.
2,115 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses that, unlike the Rossini version of the same story, Verdi and Boito's opera "Otello" keeps the plot of the original Shakespeare story intact. This paper presents the opera in detail and denotes that the music and operatic forms are in keeping with the nature of each character. The author believes that the music and the drama are perfectly balanced in "Otello" because Verdi uses the music to further the drama and to create tones for each shift in dramatic emphasis.
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"Act II begins with an orchestral introduction that mirrors Iago's energy. Iago delivers his famous soliloquy "Credo in un Dio crudel" and expresses his credo of evil. Continuing to find ways to express Iago's shifting energy, Verdi orchestrates the credo in a way that hovers between arioso and aria, "its devious harmonic and formal twists continuing to the last." When Otello arrives, the two sing a duet that continues to the end of the act, lining the action and words of the entire act around this specific confrontation and the way Iago manipulates Otello during it."
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Medea, 2002.
A study of Medea, who is a tragic heroine of Aristotle.
820 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 2 sources, $ 29.95
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This paper illustrates the characteristics inherent to the protagonist in plays of Euripides: Medea that was conceived in 431 B.C., as they collaborate to Aristotle?s concept of tragedy and tragic protagonists. It describes plight of an unhappy wife, which creates the pity of reader, as her husband finds another wife and her daughters are murdered.
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"In order to effectively understand the topic of this paper, it is imperative that we first take a look at the character who is supposed to analyzed in the light of her fulfilling the criterion of that of a tragic heroine; Medea: the Wife of Jason, who has deserted her at the beginning of the play for the daughter of King Creon, subsequently creating a scenario that is prevalently tense and regretful, particularly in aspect of the effect that his departure to another wife has had on Medea. The occurrence of Medea?s link to Jason as his wife comes about as the Argonauts, a group of Greek set under to command of Jason in order to locate the legendary Golden Fleece; a mythical fleece."
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On ?Everyman?, 2002.
An analysis of medieval morality play ?Everyman?.
915 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 30 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper examines the fifteenth century English play "Everyman" by Casey. It describes the theatrical guilds of the medieval England and their types of productions: miracle (faith and bible) and morality (life) plays. The paper discusses the play's theme of death and what happens to an individual?s soul.
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"?Everyman? is one of the classic examples of a medieval morality play. Morality plays evolved in conjunction with the medieval mystery plays. Both were acted out by trade guilds and often traveled around the land, although morality plays were composed individually and not in cycles. (Knapp ?Everyman Lecture?) Unlike the miracle plays of the period, which usually depicted scenes from the Old or New Testament, medieval morality plays primarily focused upon illustrating the difficulties of ordinary men and women in making their lives complimentary with the morality of such Biblical characters, as depicted in the Bible."
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Horatio, 2002.
This paper is an analysis of Horatio?s Character in ?Hamlet? by William Shakespeare.
640 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 22.95
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This paper discusses Horatio's character in Shakespeare's "Hamlet". The author illustrates how Horatio served as an active and important character in the play, although he may well be treated only as a secondary character in the play. It is shown how as well as being the narrator, his participation and Hamlet?s trust in him made Horatio an essential character.
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"Horatio is only a secondary character in the play ?Hamlet? by William Shakespeare, but his character plays a vital role in confirming the murder/killing of Hamlet?s father?s death and helping out Hamlet to device and plan out a ?trap? that will confirm both Claudius and Gertrude?s guilt in killing King Hamlet. In fact, Horatio becomes the catalyst that triggered Hamlet?s suspicions about his father?s immediate death. Also, he serves as the narrator of the story, particularly the events that happened prior to the play itself, when King Hamlet was still alive and the tragic death of the King happened. Lastly, he served as Hamlet?s confidante and co-conspirator, as he helped Hamlet concoct his plans in entrapping Claudius and Hamlet?s mother Gertrude about their involvement on the King?s death. This paper will support these important points in the play ?Hamlet? by William Shakespeare. The main points in this paper regarding Horatio?s character will be pointed out through quotes as excerpted from the play."
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Arthur Miller: Analysis of Themes, 2002.
This paper compares and contrasts themes in Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible".
1,894 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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Arthur Miller revelled in exposing the frailties of society and human nature. In his plays "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible", he explores American society and what drives its citizens. This paper endeavours to compare and contrast the themes posited by Miller in "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" and how these themes are conveyed by the plays? characters and plot.
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""Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" both explore how individuals define themselves by the society they live in. However, the definitions that emerge are different among the leading protagonists of each play. In "Death of A Salesman", the themes of success and failure are explored through the dialogue and actions of the main character, Willy Loman. "Death of a Salesman" relates the tale of a man facing failure in American society, known for inculcating amongst its citizens the importance of success."
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?A Doll?s House? and ?Death of a Salesman?, 2002.
A comparative analysis of the plays ?A Doll?s House? by Henrik Ibsen and ?Death of a Salesman? by Arthur Miller.
1,187 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper provides a compare and contrast analysis of ?A Doll?s House? by Henrik Ibsen and ?Death Of A Salesman? by Arthur Miller. It discusses how both plays are about fallen families and how, in both cases, the fall occurs in proportion to the deception that the family members opt for themselves. It examines how both families try everything to tune up with society?s expectations and their own wishes and dreams and how both plays tell us that most of us choose to play roles and deceive, not only those immediately and distantly around us, but also ourselves. Although the two plays end with voluntary self-annihilation, or suicide, they also end in the characters? getting released. It is only their respective deaths that put an end to their inner torments.
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"There is greater ease in reading ?Death of a Salesman? than ?A Doll?s House.? In the former, the struggle is towards confronting the reality of failure and compensating for it. Although Willy destroys himself to enable his son to have the money that can insure his own success, his suicide results in the release of everyone in the family, including himself, from the brunt and pain of unfulfilled ambition and financial lack. As Linda, his wife, says at the end of the play: ?We?re free...? She feels redeemed from the clutches or Willy?s all-consuming desire to be economically comfortable and free of unpaid-bills. His death even comes directly to pay those debts and make possible the wife?s and sons? making it better in their own pursuits."
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Love as a Theme "In King Lear" And "The Faerie Queen", 2002.
This paper discusses the theme of love in the two plays "King Lear" by Shakespeare and "The Faerie Queen" by Edward Spenser.
1,103 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 38.95
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The paper details the themes of false love and true love in both plays and gives the definition of love as well as the lesson of love according to each play.
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"False Love is embodied primarily by Lear's two daughters, Regan and Goneril. When their father demands a declaration of love, the two girls offer grand declarations of love, which are also however false. These declarations win them the promised prize of land and marriage to foremost members of society. The love of their husbands is also false, since it is based upon how much the girls can offer in a material sense.
The further romantic pursuits of the sisters also prove their love to be false. When Regan's husband dies, she competes with her sister for Edmund's love. This not only shows her romantic love to be false, but also her love for her sister. This is also proved by the fact that they ultimately turn against each other in their conspiracies."
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"Romeo and Juliet", 2002.
This paper discusses the language of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
3,630 words (approx. 14.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 101.95
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This paper discusses how it is it is Shakespeare?s masterful use of language that makes "Romeo and Juliet" a remarkable play. It shows how Shakespeare?s language is used to create characters, to add emotion and to express meaning in the play. The author explores each use of language, how the different characters speak, the use of imagery and how Shakespeare uses language to add emotion and heighten the romance of the play.
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"The first consideration is how Shakespeare uses language to create characters. The characters in the play come from many different classes and backgrounds and have different characteristics. The challenge for Shakespeare was to capture the characteristics of these characters without having to describe them. Shakespeare manages this by paying careful attention to how characters speak. It is noted here that the importance is on not just what they say, but how they say it, a factor many other works are not as aware of. As one author says, speaking of Romeo and Juliet, ?the character is discovered through the verse? (Van Tassel, xvi)."
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Federico Garcia Lorca's "The House of Bernarda Alba", 2002.
This paper presents a critical review of Lorca's play, focusing on the influence of the Spanish Civil War on the work.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 109.95
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The paper begins with a review of the plot. Following this, the paper looks at the underlying meaning of the play. The intention of the play to be an image of reality is discussed and the role of women in the play is explored. A detailed synopsis of the build-up to the Spanish Civil War is given and the paper then relates these events to parts of the play. The meaning of the title is analyzed and the symbolism within the play is studied. The social divisions evident in the play are brought up and the theme of illusion versus reality is investigated. The various settings and sounds of the play are also mentioned and the paper concludes with the messages on leadership suggested by the protagonist, Bernarda Alba.
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"Federico Garcia Lorca's final published play was The House of Bernarda Alba, written in 1936 just before the start of the Spanish Civil War. The play mirrors many of the tensions then besetting Spanish society, and the plot of the play also reflects the situation developing and in some ways foreshadows what is to come. The basic themes of the play relate to universal concepts of life and death, family unity and disintegration, and social conflict, but they have a resonance in this play because they also are connected to events then taking place and a conflict about to become much greater and more damaging than could then be seen."
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The Despair of Macbeth, 2002.
A review of the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.
805 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 28.95
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This review discusses the role of Macbeth as a tragic hero as opposed to a true villain. The feelings of the reader are analyzed as sympathetic toward Macbeth instead of disdainful.
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"In the play by William Shakespeare that bears his name, the hero ?Macbeth? emerges as tragic hero, not a villain. This is not because the play is called ?The Tragedy of Macbeth.? Rather it is because the play?s action is driven by the moral failure of the central character rather than the horror the viewer feels at the murder of Duncan by the central character. The tragedy is not that Duncan is dead; it is that Macbeth becomes a tyrant. (5.6.8)"
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The Consequences of Marriage, 2002.
This paper uses three different literary works, Anton Chekhov's ?The Lady with the Pet Dog," Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" and Leo Tolstoy's ?The Death of Ivan Ilyich," to discuss the role that marriage plays in society.
1,725 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper examines the role that marriage plays in society, both past and present. The author uses three different literary works, "The Lady with the Pet Dog," "Hedda Gabler" and "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" to illustrate how marriage has maintained itself as an institution of society over the years. The main characters in these three stories demonstrate how societal pressures often lead people to marry for the wrong reasons and how loveless, or meaningless marriages often occur for different reasons. Hedda is forced to marry because she is a woman, Ilyich marries only because society expects him to take a wife and Gurov finds himself in a loveless marriage that leads him to an affair and his finding true love. The author uses these characters to send the message that marriage without thought can often have serious consequences that destroy lives.
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"In the play Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen also makes a comment on the institution of marriage in society. Just as in ?The Death of Ivan Ilyich,? marriage is a requirement of society and something people must accept. Ibsen offers his views on the implications of this by focusing on the impact on the woman in the marriage. It is noted that the woman has the least control in a marriage, the woman being seen as inferior and powerless to the man. The main character, Hedda Gabler, is aware of this, with the play being her story of how she reacts to these controls. Hedda is a female with a character that is difficult to contain. She is not the character who accepts restrictions placed upon her, but is fiercely independent. The fact that she has no choice but to accept marriage shows just how certain the role of women is in society."
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"The Glass Menagerie", 2002.
An analysis of the play, "The Glass Menagerie" by American playwright, Tennessee Williams.
956 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, $ 33.95
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The paper discusses the play 1944 play "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams whose plot draws loosely on autobiographical material from the writer?s own life. The paper shows how the play describes the main character (Tom Wingfield)?s anguished struggle between the call of duty towards his mother (Amanda Wingfield) and sister (Laura Wingfield) and his desire to ?live his own life.? Tom is also the ?narrator? in the play who often moves in and out of the action. The paper discusses how, apart from the use of a narrator, "The Glass Menagerie" is notable for the use of music, screen projections and lighting effects that helped to create a dream-like effect that is appropriate for a ?memory play.? This was unusual for the time and challenged the naturalistic convention of plays of the period.
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"The play is divided into seven acts and opens in the run-down St. Louis apartment of the family sometime in 1937 with the narrator Tom reflecting on his past memory. By speaking directly to the audience through the narrator the playwright makes a deliberate departure from the naturalistic convention of plays at the time. The essential characteristics of all the characters in the play are established quickly at the beginning with the use of this technique. Amanda is a loving but nagging and meddlesome mother who annoys Tom by her demanding ways. She is also apt to live in the past and far removed from the present realities of her life as she often recalls the days when she was a young Southern belle and a single evening in her past when seventeen gentlemen suitors came calling on her."
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?Julius Caesar? and Elizabethan England, 2002.
A discussion of William Shakespeare's ?Julius Caesar? and life in Elizabethan England.
1,855 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper reviews William Shakespeare's play ?Julius Caesar? and examines how it was accepted and performed at the time in Elizabethan England. It provides a history of the Globe theatre where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed beginning with "Julius Caesar" and examines life in the theatre district of London at the time. It attempts to analyze why the play was so popular when it first came out and why a subject such as tyrannicide was presentable in a country governed by a monarch. It looks at how it contained all of the political and social intrigues necessary to make it a timeless classic and all the puerile blood and gore that was needed to entertain a group of theater-hopping commoners in what was considered London?s seediest neighborhood.
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"The play was written and performed in 1599 at the Globe theater in Southwark, London. Southwark is located on the south bank of the Thames river, and was traditionally considered the vice district. This section of London was home to 10% of its population, and more than its share of the city?s beggars. In 1594 the Lord Mayor, Sir John Spencer, asserted that parts of Southwark were "very nurseries and breeding-places of the begging poor" who swarmed the streets of the City. He estimated the number of these beggars at 12,000, and requested a meeting of several local magistrates in an attempt to banish them from the City or prevent them from crossing the Bridge."
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?Miss Julie?, 2002.
A proposal for the theatrical production of August Strindberg's play "Miss Julie".
2,190 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper analyzes the Strindberg play, "Miss Julie" and describes how to present it in theatre production. The paper describes the character dialogue of the actors, the nineteenth century setting for the stage and props. It further illustrates the lighting effects, which allude to observing something that the characters want hidden from the audience.
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"In August Strindberg's Miss Julie, the use of setting helps advance the theme and conveys meaning to the audience not only through the visible setting but also in terms of off-stage space. For the current production of the play, the basic description in the text will be followed, though the set need not be as naturalistic as originally intended. What is important is that the set suggest a large kitchen in an aristocratic home at the end of the nineteenth century. The script says that the roof and side walls of the kitchen are hidden by drapes and borders, so they need be little more than suggestions of walls and ceiling. To the rear, on the right, is an arched exit porch, and through this can be seen a fountain and trees, which can also be suggested rather than naturalistic in design. The important kitchen props are a large stove, a kitchen table, some chairs, an ice-box, a sink, and some shelves. Prominent in the side wall is a large speaking tube, which becomes an important symbol of the master of the house and so which should be given special emphasis through size and position."
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Taming of Katherine, 2002.
Character analysis of Katherine in Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".
1,487 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper examines the character of Katherine; discussing the various techniques used by Shakespeare to establish the theme of the play "Taming the Shrew". It also answers the question whether Katherine was tamed eventually or not.
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"Taming The Shrew by William Shakespeare is a comedy play tactfully and purposely divided into five entertaining acts (Plot Structure). The induction highlights the possible reasons for the play?s existence followed by an introduction all the characters playing a vital role in developing the theme of the play and the development of the gist of the story, in the first act (Plot Structure). The taming (the main purpose of the play) of the female lead begins in the Act II and III with Katherine getting married to Petruchio. The climactic act is the act IV when the aim of cultivating and changing Kate to a productive human being is accomplished (Plot Structure). The final Act V establishes the connection and creates harmony between all the characters of the play and brings forward the implied meaning of Katherine?s portrayal (Plot Structure) as a shrew."
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?A Doll's House?, 2002.
An analysis of the character of Nora in Henrik Ibsen?s ?A Doll's House?.
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper examines Ibsen?s ?A Doll?s House?, the story of Nora Helmer, a woman who has been given a certain role in society and has never had the opportunity to question that role or determine who she really is. It evaluates how one of the major themes of the play is self identity, versus the role that society places upon people and how this theme is expressed through the changing character of Nora. It discusses Nora?s character and her transformation through the story showing how her transformation is really just a change in the role she chooses to play and not a change in her actual character.
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"These events are the ones that change Nora?s character so that she begins to become aware of herself. At the beginning of the play, Nora is a child, by the end she has become aware of the situation and has matured enough to understand that she needs to find out who she is It is in the play itself that we see her grow up, when her beliefs about her husband are finally shattered and she comes to a new understanding. She then comes to see that her father and her husband have seen her as a doll to be played with and that she is not seen as someone with her own opinions or her own will. She realizes that her whole life has been based on illusion, not reality. It is this realization that forces her to make her brave choice at the end and decide to leave her husband."
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