... , or have turned, into prisons."" Discuss. In order to discuss the morphing of doll house' into prison' in A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler one must first examine what makes their domestic situations doll houses' in the first instance. In A Doll's House Ibsen is quick to present Nora as a playful and almost hysterical child' by having her character move around the stage like much ... be in and was practiced at and therefore one may say she was doomed the day she left the church on her wedding day. Hedda brought up by her father, the general, takes on the role as Hedda Gabler - her father'...

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... stage of the play the audience knows nothing about, sits on the bed and stares at the audience in silence for '30 seconds'. Traditionally in realist drama such as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler characters use simple exposition through language and non-verbal elements to 'let the audience in' and enlighten them on what is happening on the stage and the results and reasons ... ...

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