Victoria Weaver – Madame Bovary and A Doll’s House. Torvald was the stereotypical dominant male and
towards the end, he becomes weak. With Madame Bovary, Charles becomes weaker than he originally was. The focus will be chararacterization.
Maya Dartiguenave- In both plays, Antigone and A Doll’s House, the leading female characters are characterized
by a loved one in a dire situation when the women try to help them, and find themselves in trouble. For Antigone, it was giving
her brother a proper burial, and for Nora, from A Doll’s House, it was borrowing money to save the life of her husband.
Kourtney Williams –
Madame Bovary and A
doll’s house, how the antagonists and the husbands of the protagonists
are used to characterize the protagonists.
Madame Bovary and A
Doll’s House- authors use of foreshadowing to signal the departure and
abandonment of children by leading female characters.
Madame Bovary and Antigone,
the author’s use antithesis to show the characterization of women using the characterization of men in the society.
Both Antigone and A
Doll’s House share a common theme of whether to follow one’s one rules and morals, or whether to follow those
formed by others of authority.
The archetype of unfaithfulness of Madam Bovary and Antigone
used to show the weakness of women.
and Ibsen dynamically characterize the “antagonists” (Krogstad and Lheurex) to bring about the downfall of the
husbands in the household.
How does the author
use foreshadowing to develop the characterization of Antigone and Emma Bovary
The role reversal of
the dynamic characterization of Emma/Charles Bovary and Nora/Helmer
A study of the authors
use of strict societal influence to develop the characters in Sophocles Antigone and Ibsen’s A Doll’s
use of foreshadowing to develop the relationship of husband and wife in Bovery/Doll’s House
The hasty generalizations
of Antigone and Madame Bovary that lead to their suicide.
Both authors use situational
irony to bring the women to power and use the women to bring the downfall of the men.
A study of the characterization
of Emma Bovary and Antigone and how
they both are self destructive and are driven be their emotions.
Both Madame Bovary
and Nora in Doll’s house were indirectly characterized as selfish individuals
which led to situational irony.
An examination of Iseme
is Anitgone by Sophocles and Charles Bovary in Madame Bovary by Flaubert reveals that both authors examine the role of foils
to emphasize their attempted influence over the protagonist which eventually leads to their own downfall.
The use of purchases
and debt and the contrasting views of those between the characters of Madame Bovary and Doll’s House to show the pitfalls
of a mismatched marriage
of family relationships to develop character in Madame Bovary and Antigone.
characterized against the mores of societies, they end up hurting those who love them.
How their past led
to the characters ultimate destruction.
How in Madame Bovary
and in A doll’s house, how the husbands were foil to their wives and lead to the wives destruction.
Antigone and doll’s
House uses characterization to characterize antigone and Nora to establish the theme of loyalty.
The theme in Antigone
and Doll’s house that by believing in what you want instead of going with society the result is the resolution of freedom.
How the family dynamics
in Antigone and A Doll’s House impacted the theme of the work.
between the life Antigone and Madame Bovary wanted to live, and the life society expected them to live and how this led both
women to strike out; eventually leading to the downfall of their families.
How the author uses
situational irony to further deceitful characteristics among the protagonists and antagonists in A Doll’s House and
use of dramatic irony in A Doll’s House and Madame Bovary to characterize Nora and Emma
The theme in Madam
Bovary and Antigone that focusing on idealistic lifestyles rather reality leads to self destruction.
The use of foils to
highlight flaws in the male leads of Madame Bovary and A Doll’s House: Dr. Rank for Torvald Helmer, and Homais the pharmacist
for Charles Bovary.
How the author uses
slippery slope to characterize the lives of the main characters in Madame Bovary and Antigone
How the author uses
antithesis between the husband and wife characters in Madame Bovary and A Doll’s House.
Motif that powerful
men fall when confronted with powerful women to establish theme.
The author uses the
characters uses strictly the characters emotions to characterizes them.
The author uses irony
to develop the theme of if a man throws himself at a woman, he will be rejected, whether or not he is right for her (Bovary
and Doll’s House)
Use of Mrs. Linde and
Ismene as voice of reason and a foil to the main women characters in the drama who then ignore them due to a cloud of emotion.
The authors use of
Nora and Antigone to state that moral rules are greater than rules as set by the law.
The symbolism of a
blind man who is able to see the truth yet is reviled in Madame Bovary and Antigone.
The theme of how parenting
effects adults in Madame Bovary and A Doll’s House.
use of indirect characterization of the antagonists Creon in Antigone and Torvald in A Doll’s Hose to establish the
theme that in order for a leader to be successful one must have compassion and humility.
Mary Cole Christopher
development of the motif of feminine independence and selfishness.
Ibsen and Flaubert
use dysfunctional marriages as a metaphor to describe and criticize their contemporary societies.
The author characterizes
Emma and Antigone as rebellious and stubborn to develop the motif of women’s suppression.
Ibsen and Flaubert
both use letters to symbolize the destruction of the husbands’ world, and bring about their downfall.
Through their interactions
with other people, Creon and Charles represent a theme of masculine arrogance.
Use of Symbols to reveal
the consequences of over romanticizing a marriage
The use characterization
of the guard and Krogstad as selfish people to develop the theme that the oppressed will do anything to thrive.
Madame Bovary and a
Doll’s House share a common theme of money being the road to destruction (or self- destruction).
The use of symbols
to show the main characters in Madame Bovary and a Doll’s House as dynamic
The view of the main characters Nora in A Doll’s House and Antigone archetype as martyrs creating
change on what they feel is the unjust.
The use of debt to
characterize Emma Bovary as cold hearted and vain ,and Nora Helmer as compassionate ,and caring .
use of symbolism in Madame Bovary and A Doll’s House create an atmosphere and mood of oppression.
use of imagery on social classes and the way they dressed to characterize Nora
Helmer and Emma Bovary as false
The portrayal of the
societal view of women in the works of Flaubert and Sophocles through theme, established by the characterization of Emma bovary
use of the husbands as foils to the major characters, Nora and Madame Bovary.
The use of death of
the characters in Madame Bovary and Antigone to establish a theme of the dramatic ramifications of death and how a person
influence extends beyond the grave.
use of characterization of Creon and Torvald being oblivious to what’s happening in front of them (the main characters’
actions) to develop themes.
How the houses in Madame
Bovary and a Doll’s House are used as symbols to represent prisons, and how this helps develop the theme of a house
becoming a prison when its normally a place of refuge and how this affects the women.
use of dynamic characterization to show that a change in nature dooms a family in A Doll’s House and Antigone.
The authors use the
class structure in both bovary and a dolls house in order to “imprison” the mmain characters.