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... Alving's mother and aunts , when advising her on marriage , had stopped thinking about Alving's money and social position and had told her about the joys of love instead , Helene could have nurtured Alving's vocation in their connubial ...
... Alving's mother and aunts , when advising her on marriage , had stopped thinking about Alving's money and social position and had told her about the joys of love instead , Helene could have nurtured Alving's vocation in their connubial ...
Page 73
... Alving believes to be her final act of ridding herself of the physical past . She has built the Orphanage with a sum equal to Alving's fortune when she married him . By giving the Orphanage to the town she will dispose of the Alving ...
... Alving believes to be her final act of ridding herself of the physical past . She has built the Orphanage with a sum equal to Alving's fortune when she married him . By giving the Orphanage to the town she will dispose of the Alving ...
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... Alving's greatest existential choice . This theory is persuasive and , unlike Brandes's , is neither self- contradictory nor unwisely hyperbolical in its claims for Helene Alving . Like many other readings , however , it implies that ...
... Alving's greatest existential choice . This theory is persuasive and , unlike Brandes's , is neither self- contradictory nor unwisely hyperbolical in its claims for Helene Alving . Like many other readings , however , it implies that ...
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