In reading Ibsen's A Doll's House today, one may find it hard to .
imagine how daring it seemed at the time it was written one.
hundred years ago. Its theme, the emancipation of a woman, makes it .
seem almost contemporary. .
In Act I, there are many clues that hint at the kind of marriage .
Nora and Torvald have. It seems that Nora is a doll controlled by .
Torvald. She relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts, .
much like a puppet who is dependent on its puppet master for all of .
its actions. The most obvious example of Torvald's physical control .
over Nora is his reteaching her the tarantella. Nora pretends that she .
needs Torvald to teach her every move in order to relearn the dance. .
The reader knows this is an act, and it shows her submissiveness to .
Torvald. After he teaches her the dance, he proclaims "When I saw you .
turn and sway in the tarantella-my blood was pounding till I couldn't .
stand it"(1009), showing how he is more interested in Nora physically .
than emotionally. When Nora responds by saying "Go away, Torvald! .
Leave me alone. I don't want all this"(1009), Torvald asks "Aren't I .
your husband?"(1009). By saying this, he is implying that one of .
Nora's duties as his wife is to physically pleasure him at his .
command. Torvald also does not trust Nora with money, which .
exemplifies Torvald's treating Nora as a child. On the rare occasion .
when Torvald gives Nora some money, he is concerned that she will .
waste it on candy and pastry; in modern times, this would be .
comparable to Macauly Culkin being given money, then buying things .
that "would rot his mind and his body" in the movie Home Alone. Nora's .
duties, in general, are restricted to caring for the children, doing .
housework, and working on her needlepoint. A problem with her .
responsibilities is that her most important obligation is to please .
Torvald, making her role similar to that of a slave. Many of Ibsen's .
works are problem plays in which he leaves the conclusion up to the .
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Nora's Relationships The story "A Doll House" by Henrik Ibsen is about a young woman named Nora, who is trying to cope with a secret she has kept away from her husband, Torvald. ... In "A Doll House", Henrik Ibsen uses conflict to show Nora's subservient relationship with Torvald, Nora's Hostile relationship with Krogstad, and Nora's misunderstood relationship with Kristine. ... Torvald approaches Nora as if she was his doll telling her what to do and when to do things. ... In the "A Doll House", Henrik Ibsen uses conflict to show the unpredictable outcomes of Nora...
"Ibsen's ars dramatis centres on the way his heroines find that their doll's houses are turning, or have turned, into prisons."" ... 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. ... Unsurprisingly the publication of A Doll's House greatly offended and upset Laura and has left Ibsen the title of being a greater artist than man'. ... Torvald is often criticised and blamed for creating the doll house howev...
The Dedicated Husband Torvald Helmer is the breadwinner and foundation for his household in Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll House. His authoritative personality that holds the family together throughout the beginning of the play is what ends up tearing them apart in the end. His initial actions giv...
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To what extent is "The Doll's house" a Modern story? "The doll's House" to a great extent is a modern short story. ... Like every modern short story "the Doll's House" is concerned with nuances of the characters rather than the construction of a fast paced plot. ... One of the epiphany's in this story was when Lil finally spoke in the end of the story, proving to us all she needed was affection and love to make her talk; the love Kezia showed them for barely a few minutes by showing them the doll's house made her speak, may it be a little. ... Many of the situations...
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The ending pages of A Doll's House were very entertaining for me. A Doll's House seemed to lean towards using extreme drama and creating dramatic situations in order to capture the reader's attention. ... I could really sense the importance of being independent to this family in A Doll's House. ... A Doll's House stresses the significance of women during the 1800's. ...
The play A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, is concerned with the conflict between social distinctions and duty. ... Together they have a cozy house, and three darling children. ... I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll--child" (Ibsen). ... She decided that she has to leave a house. ... When Nora closes the door of the doll's house behind her, she opens a different door of new life for women. ...
