What does the image of the macaroons come to symbolize in
this excerpt from act 1 of henrik ibsen's a doll's house?

helmer (wagging his finger at her): hasn't miss sweet tooth been breaking rules in town today?

nora: no; what makes you think that?

helmer: hasn't she paid a visit to the confectioner's?

nora: no, i assure you, torvald—

helmer: not been nibbling sweets?

nora: no, certainly not.

helmer: not even taken a bite at a macaroon or two?

nora: no, torvald, i assure you really—

helmer: there, there, of course i was only joking.

nora (going to the table on the right): i should not think of going against your wishes.

deceit

obedience

gluttony

control

freedom

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

What is the literal meaning of alive at the village of round and square houses by ann grifalconi