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…Plot Overview ADoll's House opens on Christmas Eve. Nora Helmer enters her well-furnished living room--the setting of the entire play--carrying several packages. Torvald Helmer, Nora's husband, comes out of his study when he hears her arrive. He greets…

…The element of fire is a very powerful and destructive force to those who encounter it. It is often interpreted as an evil symbol as fires tend to be violent and uncontrollable towards anything in its path. This strong, devastating element of fire can…

…For most of my life I've lived in the city in a Northeast Philadelphia row house. Having grown up in one smaller than the one I eventually bought, I felt reasonably comfortable, until my wife and I had our second child. We recently moved from the city…

…The play “A Doll House” is a story about a woman’s debt conflicting with her marriage. Nora, the wife, borrows money from a friend to take care of her sick husband, Torvald Helmer. She plans on paying Nils Krogstad, the loaner, back, but he uses…

…“The House Decision” An important decision for me was, when we were choosing a house to live in for the remainder of our time. My brother would one day move out, but this would be my parents’ final house. It was not a light decision, as you see. My…

…As I approach the island on which my dream house awaits, I catch a quick glimpse of it. It is huge, and is the most noticeable building in the area. My private plane lands on the air strip next to the house. I get out of the plane…

…House on Stilts Some houses are sometimes built on stilts over the seas. It may seem difficult to understand how these houses stay up as long as they do, but a house on stilts can sometimes last for about 20 or 30 years without having to replace…

…A Doll's House In the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen shows us what marriage was all about during the 19th century. In the play Ibsen creates a character by the name of Nora Helmer who at the beginning of the play is the prototypical 19th…

…" To Build a Fire " is the title of a story written by Jack London. This story is an example of Naturalism; which Nature is conceived as the world of objects, actions and forces which leads their being to objective scientific inquiry. It is a story…

…The significance of the words 'dying and death' in Jack London's 1910 novel, 'To Build a Fire' continuously expresses the man's dwindling warmth and bad luck in his journey along the Yukon trail to meet 'the boys' at camp. London associates dying…