Analysis Of ' Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

The teenage rebellion, which most of people experience during the puberty, always worsens the relationship between parents and children. Written by Joyce Carol Oates, the short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” describes the condition and consequence of a family whose child is rebellious. Through the characterization, plot, and dialogue, Oates successfully exhibits the thesis that Connie’s bad ending is the consequence of her parents’ attitude and actions.

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol Oates is about a young woman by the name of Connie. Connie is a beautiful teenager who is concerned with her appearance. She behaves one with her family and another in the public eye. The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is about a narrator who succumbs to his madden desire to murder his friend, an elderly man because of his pale blue eye. The narrator murders the old man with uncontrollable rage, dismembers the body and hides in the floorboards. After police arrive due to a scream that a neighbor heard the narrator is driven to madness when he supposedly hears the heartbeat of the old man. Driven to madness, he confesses to the police that he murdered the old man. The Diamond As Big

“Feminine Alienation” Women in today’s society strive for equality. However, a century ago, the female gender is treated very differently. People believed in patriarchy, where women are solely dependent on men. The two plays, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, sparked controversial opinions on the position of women striving for conventional respectability in society. Nevertheless, if they stand out from their cultural norm, these female characters are often alienated from their society.

The Doll House takes place in the late 1800s, in which things were way different than they are now. During this time, men were basically the ones running the place instead of woman. Society expects women to be the ones who will stay home to cook, clean, and take care of the kids. During that, men will be able to do almost anything they want and they basically bring in the income to the house. The play taught us how women are treated and how they can redeem themselves by finding their own virtues and values. Nora was basically treated like the “squirrel” she was by Torvald, in which he didn’t think nothing was wrong at all.

Torvald is a very controlling and ignorant man; everything is done by his approval. Torvald reveals that his personality is assertive. Throughout the play, Torvald exposes his real emotions and feelings for Nora. In his mind, he thinks that he is a good husband by controlling Nora. Torvald maneuvers Nora’s actions and feelings like a doll; hence the title A Doll’s House. “It’s as though it made her his property in a double sense: he has, as it were, given her a new life, and she becomes in a way both his wife and at the same time his child” (Ibsen 78). At this point of the play, Torvald is forgiving Nora for committing fraud. After he forgives Nora for what she has done, he tells her to not worry because he has everything under his wing. “Don’t

In the play, The Doll House, towering acts of deception are shown as main character Nora stages a vigorous battle between her heart and her mind to save the life of her husband Torvald, while simultaneously performing acts of embezzlement towards her father. Throughout to timeline of the play, Nora is triggered by the constant thoughts of losing her husband, Torvald. Without a source of income or money laying around, Nora is forced into action. Upon initially asking for a small loan from her father, she was quickly dismissed.

In Henrik Isben’s play “A Doll’s House”, the protagonist, Nora Helmer is the most intriguing characters in the play. Nora is the typical 19th-century wife and mother. Her husband, Torvald is a successful bank manager, who is the breadwinner and main leader of the family. Torvald has obtained a higher education than Nora, which makes him rule over Nora and become more dominate toward Nora. Although Nora may have act like she is innocent in her childish manner, she is fully aware of who she really is as well as what people have turned her into, but she will be come to terms and allow her true self to come out.

     A Dolls House represents a women’s marital life from many years ago. The central theme of this play is Nora’’s rebellion against society and everything that was expected of her. Nora shows this by breaking away from all the standards and expectations her husband and society had set up for her. Women were not considered of importance to their husbands and that made women feel like in a “dolls house”, such as with Nora and her husband Helmer. In her time women were not supposed to be independent. They were to support their husbands, take care of the children, cook, clean, and make everything perfect around the house. Nora had two main rebellions; her taking out the loan, and when she left

Through every character and every lie in the play, Nora realizes that she has lived a sheltered life. She had always lived under a man's roof where she was dependent on that man, first her father, and then her husband, Torvald. Nora realizes she is sheltered from the world and dependent on her husband, first when she talks to the maid, who left her children to get a job, then when she talks to Kristine, who is an independent woman seeking employment. Also, the conflict of Nora borrowing money made Nora realize she is Torvalds’s doll that he bosses around and plays house with. She does not think that borrowing money to save her husband's life could be a crime, which leads her to realize that she does not understand the world outside the walls of her house. This all leads up to Nora’s decision to leave her husband and children behind so that she can grow into an independent woman.

In the case of Nora in A Doll House, she dealt with the conflict of being her own person. During the Victorian period many women were necessitated to depend on their husbands anything they may desire. For instance, in act one when Nora was having a conversation with Torvald about finances, he got upset that she was spending money. During that conversation Torvald told Nora, “You can’t deny it, my dear little Nora. It’s a sweet little spendthrift, but she uses up a deal of money. One would hardly believe how expensive such little persons are!” (1360). Moreover, this is a great example of how women were treated when it came to money. Torvald had strict restrictions on Nora and her spending, he did not allow her to spend money without his permission. Which in turn leads to conflict between Nora and Torvald. Nora felt that she should not need her

Nora discovers her capabilities and true self worth by the end of the play, leaving Torvald and the unsatisfactory life that she led with him. Nora is finally able to relieve herself from the doll’s life she has had and admits this: “I’ve been your doll wife here, just as at home I was Papa’s doll-child” (226). When Torvald not only questions her abilities as a woman, but also as a mother, the sole purpose she held in life, Nora realizes that nothing can ever truly satisfy Torvald and there may not be a point in staying in this prison-like household. Nora decides it is high time that she begins to take care of herself before she sacrifices her life for her husband and children. From the mistakes that Nora has made in her life, she discovers that the only way to improve her is through education: “There’s another task that I must finish first – I must try to educate myself” (227).

A Doll’s House revolves around the lives of Nora and her husband Torvald and their relationship. The play uses man vs. man conflict to illustrate the expectations of a Victorian society. In Act I, Nora and Torvald’s relationship appears happy, loving, and caring. The reader learns of Nora’s secret of how she borrowed money to save her husband’s life and is now trying to pay it back without Torvald’s knowledge. During this time period, “a woman couldn’t legally borrow money without her father’s or husband’s consent” (Mays and Booth 878). Krogstad, another character who works at the same bank as Torvald, is the one who lent Nora the money and discovered that Nora forged her father’s signature. Krogstad is now blackmailing Nora, threatening to expose her secret if Nora does not save his job at the bank. Nora begs

Nora is a captivating character in Ibsen's A Doll's House. She swings between extremes: she is either very happy or immensely depressed, prosperous or completely desperate, wise or naive, impotent or purposeful. You can understand this range in Nora, because she staggers between the person she pretends to be and the one she someday hopes to become. Throughout the play, Nora is portrayed as subordinate to her male counterpart, Torvald. As most other men during this time, Torvald believed that women were not capable of making difficult decisions, or thinking for themselves. As the play progresses, Nora faces a life changing decision to abandon her duty as a wife and mother to find her own individuality. Even though Torvald is responsible

When Torvald’s stunning words reveal a harsh truth to his wife, Nora, she immediately closes the door to her marriage and family. In A Doll’s House, we find Nora rebelling against her husband Torvald and the institution of marriage due to the secrets that Nora kept from her husband for his sake, because she realizes her marriage was nothing but a false devotion for one another, and because she faces a reality that now is time for her to discover her own path in life and examine some of her newfound ambitions.

In the doll’s house at the beginning of the play we see Nora being classified as an obedient, money loving, and childish wife. Nora and the women of the 19th century were treated a lot different of what women now are used to now. In the doll’s house Nora was supposed to Cook, Clean, take care of the kids, etc. which she didn’t do that. The marriage vows of the 19th century is different than what we would say because The money in the 19 century is the man’s money and woman don’t have no say so about it, but Nora challenges that Role of what a woman should be when Torvald which is the man asks her what she wants for Christmas and which she replies “you can give me money, Torvald. No more than you think you can spare; then one of these days I’ll. That textual support to me mean that I think she already knew she was getting tired of the way she been living which proves it at the end “That our life together would be a real