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A 4 page paper which examines how Woolf sees women and whether Henrik Ibsen’s Nora, from A Doll’s House, would be a powerful and important woman in Woolf’s mind. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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is a work that delves into the inability of many women to be important in the world of literature and poetry in the past, especially during the 16th century, and
a work that speaks of how women are, however, incredibly prevalent in the work of men. The following paper examines her work as it relates to particular women she mentions
and discusses whether Woolf would consider Nora, from Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, as a powerful feminist figure. Virginia Woolf and Ibsen In the work of Woolf she
notes the following, which essentially sets the stage for the examination that follows: "Shakespeares women do not seem wanting in personality and character. Not being a historian, one might
go even further and say that women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time--Clytemnestra, Antigone, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Phedre, Cressida,
Rosalind, Desdemona...Indeed, if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance" (Woolf 42-43).
She illustrates how such women were varied, sordid and splendid, hideous as well as beautiful, and mean as well as heroic, much like a man.
When she is speaking of the characters of Desdemona and Antigone, which is important to examine in order to compare to the character of Nora, one sees that both women
were very different. Desdemona was a woman who was brave and stood strong despite her husbands doubts, even to the point of standing still so her husband could kill her.
She was not an incredibly powerful woman and really seemed to be an example of how women were brave in the face of victimization, noble and possessed of integrity.
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