Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House Term Paper

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Nora's life has been made economically easy by her husband, but that subordination is what takes the ease out of her life of comfort. Torvald is the dominant partner in their marriage. Without his consent, she cannot make major decisions, like make a loan, without her husband's permission. "Frankenstein" is also about parental and filial obligation and relationship. Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the creator and father of the monster, but this creator and father immediately abandons his creation the moment he beholds this ugliness. As a child pursues its parent, the creature pursues Victor for his care, protection and instruction. When unable to satisfy these basic needs, the creature of ignorance, ignominy and intelligence turns to the dark and hidden part of him in calling the attention of his creator and displacing the energy his creator infused him with. He begins to destroy the people close to Victor's heart and for which Victor all the more repels and hates his creation. Victor can only try to escape the consequences of his mistake by running away from his grave error.

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The monster pursues Victor as a child would pursue an abandoning parent.

A third theme shared by these works is the unreliability of appearances as an index of what lies within those appearances. Ibsen's Nora pictures her as a happy, complete and sweet wife and loving mother in their comfortable home and a society, which accepts and admires them as an ideal family. But behind these nice appearances are the great rift between Nora and her husband, her lack of personal happiness and worth, and an uneasy conscience about an illegally secured loan from the bank. She, however, manages to denounce and walk away from these false appearances when she confronts and bravely responds to her true difficulty. But Dr. Frankenstein's monster does not have the innate skills to evaluate the reactions of his maker and of the other people who can only judge him for his hideous looks and acts of destruction as a creature not worthy of life......

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