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  How does Ibsen deal with feminism in the doll's house? What was the need for feminism? Henrick Ibsen Introduction:  Henrick Ibsen is a famous Norwegian playwright and theatre director. He is considered one of the fathers of modernism. In this play, he adopted a feminist approach. He highlighted various issues faced by females in a patriarchal society. In A doll's house, he describes the hardships faced by females. The story of this play revolves around a housewife Nora Helmer. She is married to a person named Torvald helmer. Nora is controlled by Helmer; she can not do anything on her own. Nora always tries to make her husband happy. At the end of the play she is deceived by her husband and she comes to a realization and leaves her home. Ibsen wrote this story because in his time there was a need for awareness against the set norms of the society. In the victorian era females were restricted to their homes and would serve their husbands. Explanation:   A doll's hou...

Analysis, Interpretation and Summary of Ezra Pound's poem  An Immorality  " An Immorality"   Sing we for love and idleness, Naught else is worth the having.   Though I have been in many a land, There is naught else in living.   And I would rather have my sweet, Though rose-leaves die of grieving,   Than do high deeds in Hungary To pass all men's believing.   Critical Analysis: To unlock the hidden meaning of the poem we need to understand the narrative framing of this poem. It seems that there are two narrators in this poem. The first narrator is the author himself who gives the title “An Immorality” to the poem. This title further reveals that what follows after the title is considered immoral by the poet, Ezra Pound. The second narrator is the one who sings the song of “love and idleness”. He is of the opinion that there is nothing worth to live for, only “love and idleness” are worth living. The narrator claims that he has traveled around the world ...

“In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound, analysis and interpretation. Imagism:(1912 and 1914) Imagism was an early 20th-century movement born in England and America. It was a reaction to romantic and Victorian poetry. During modernism, the writers tried to experiment with writing so imagism was the product.  Ezra Pound was the father of the imagist movement. The aim of the imagist movement was to create concrete images with words. Ezra Pound wrote an essay about imagist poetry  Few Don'ts by an Imagiste in this essay Ezra pound defined an image “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” Ezra Pound was inspired by Japanese Haiku; therefore, in this essay, he said,  a poet should use fewer words and write concisely. He further said that if rhyming and meter are part of your work and they are compromising the quality of your work then you should avoid them.  The poem “In a Station of the Metro" is the best example of imagist poetry...

  The Second Coming The second coming is one of the celebrated poems of Willam Butler Yeats, written in 1919. It was written in aftermath of world war 1. The destruction and chaos of war had a profound effect on social life and literature. W.B Yeats, in this poem, talks about the downfall of human civilization. This poem has multiple interpretations, but I will try to be as accurate as possible.  Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere    The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity. Analysis: Stanza 1: In the first line, Yeats is talking about a gyre. A gyre is a whirl or a spiral. Different scholars and theorists have different opinions about history. Yeats considered history as two interp...

Explain the following extracts with reference to the context: Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Reference: These lines have been taken from the poem “My Last Duchess” written by Robert Browning. Context:  Robert Browning has written this poem in this poem in the form of a dramatic monologue. In the poem, a duke is addressing an emissary(messenger) who came to talk about the duke’s second marriage. The duke is showing him the palace, they reached a point where there was a panting of the last duchess the duke starts the description of panting. He then talks about the personality of his wife. The duke says that she was a very Jolly person and she would easily become happy. Duke further says that how cheap or expensive a gift you gave her, her reaction would be the same. The duke was uncomfortable about her behaviour. He wants her t...

  Explain the following extracts with reference to the context: (15) And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland, Of child, and wife, and slave; but evermore Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar, Weary the wandering fields of barren foam. Then someone said, "We will return no more" Reference : These lines have been taken from the poem “The Lotos Eaters” written by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Context:  Alfred Lord Tennyson in his poem, “The Lotos Eaters”, is describing a scene or an event from odyssey. The sailors or mariners were returning to their home from a long voyage they lost their way due to a storm and reached to an unknown island. the inhabitants of that island were called locus eaters. When they reached, the locus eaters came there and gave them Locus they became intoxicated.  Explanation: The effects of locus started to appear and they began to appear and they began to fed as if they were dreaming. In these lines, they are talking about their family. They are und...

  Purpose of reviewing literature review: Literature review or review in literature is a crucial step in research there are many advantages of review and literature which are given below. Reviewing literature helps the researcher to develop background information. The research learns about the concept theory and problems related to his topic. The researcher also gets the idea about the previous research is conducted in that area.  The research is able to find gaps and difficulties related to his area of study. The researcher is able to notice trends followed by other researchers while conducting research.  Review in literature also helps the researcher to find gaps in his area of study. Also helps the researcher to develop a research question into a more specific problem statement. The research also notices the methodologies used in his area of study. The researchers also get information about the research design.  Review literature shows the credibility of the resea...