... lawyer who has just been promoted to manager in the bank where he works. The other characters that appear include Dr Rank, a good family friend who comes to the house at least once a day; Nils Krogstad, a lawyer who works in the same bank as Torvald; Christine Linde, a school friend of Nora's who has come to ... visit Nora, hoping to find work; the nurse and Nora and Torvald's three young children. The entire play takes place in Torvald's house over the Christmas period. The relationship between Nora and Torvald is a very uneven one. Torvald's tone is that of a father talking to a young ...

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... intrusion of a few words; in the case of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House we witness the complete contradictory. The title of the play, A Doll's House is a reminiscence of a small plush doll, which does not move nor talk. Dolls are inanimate figurines used to amuse the bored and in this context they are used ... to metaphorically represent the main character Nora. As people play with dolls to escape means of reality, Nora ... a puppet with Torvald as her puppet master, Nora eternalizes her life to be a game of dressing up Barbie. Just as the little children's dolls we once had, we find Nor...

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• Grade Level: High School

... by the Wingfield women, but Toms" love for his sister will keep things altogether for the family. Tom had becomes tired of seeing his sister sitting around playing with glass dolls that represent a real world to her. Therefore, Tom decides to bring home a friend from work, Jim. Now if the two were such good friends then Tom would have known that ... on the walls and the fine tablecloths are brought out as well to entertain the guest to the extreme. The play ends up going along with the women readying the house for the caller, but when Jim does finally arrive with Tom, Laura is afraid to...

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• Grade Level: High School