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Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2005.
This paper discusses that, in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", patriarchal femininity is shown to be an inaccurate reflection of humanity.
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 78.95
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This paper explains that the first theme of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is the significance of money within the patriarchal family system, which reinforces the notion of the male being the member of the household in charge of earning and doling out money. The author points out that Nora eventually realizes that she has the same role, which she played in her father's home; she remains an interesting figure-piece to be put on display without receiving true love. The paper relates that Nora's abandonment of her children can be perceived as a sacrifice for their benefit because Nora believes that her false role could rub-off on her children, which will lead them to the same hollow life she has.
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"This is what prompts Nora to begin to divulge her secret dealings: she is affronted that another woman would look at her and be fooled by her role as Torvald's "little featherhead." The fact that she tells Mrs. Linde about the loan after this, reveals that she believes her experience in the real, troubling world to be more valuable than the sheltered scope of her life's apparent accomplishments--husband, children, and money. This is how the feminine role begins to crack for Nora: she encounters a woman whom, according to the patriarchal rule of society, she should pity; but instead, she is somehow envious of Mrs. Linde's experience, as well as defensive of her own."
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Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2002.
This paper is a memo supporting the production of Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House" in their school.
1,315 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, AU$ 65.95
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This paper is a presentation to a school board in support of Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House." The writer presents the report as an overview of the play and the opinion as to its merit, in order for students to see the play. Using excerpts from the book, the writer attempts to persuade the School Board to allow production of the play to continue. In order to support their argument, the writer refers to reviews of the play in order to give the board a better understanding of the message that is actually being conveyed in the play.
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"While some people might view this as a play about abandonment, play is actually about self-esteem and self worth. For several decades, this we has worked to heal the wounds it perpetuated on the female gender since the nation?s inception. Women are finally encouraged to be equal, and not base their self worth on the level of martyrdom they are willing to attain. For students who participate in the production of this play, as well as students who see its performance, there are several important lessons to be learned. The most important lesson is that people should never be treated as objects."
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Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2008.
This paper explores the literary devices utilized by Henrik Ibsen in his play "A Doll's House".
1,535 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 73.95
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This paper explains that Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is a powerful story that has several underlying themes, including but not limited to family life and women's rights. The paper further relates that Ibsen's use of symbolism and his setting are unique and helps illustrate the story for the reader. In addition, with the use of these elements, he helped paint a picture of the scenes throughout the entire story for the reader. These are just a few of the literary devices that Ibsen utilized very well, and are the focus of this term paper.
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"One final intriguing use of symbolism involves Dr. Rank, the very good friend of the married couple. Dr. Rank admits that he is very ill from syphilis (which he has suffered from since birth) and he will soon pass. Upon returning from a masquerade, the three of them discuss of the next masquerade, and of what they will dress-up as. When Torvald raises the question to Dr. Rank, he responds vigorously, "At the next masquerade I shall be invisible." he adds "There's a big black hat- haven't you heard of the invisible hat? It comes down all over you, and then no one can see you.""
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Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2007.
This paper analyzes Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", one of the most frequently reviewed plays in academic studies.
3,845 words (approx. 15.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 154.95
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This paper explains that, although much has been written about viewing Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House from purely a feminist perspective, the truth is that Ibsen's clever crafting of this play and careful development of his heroine Nora has allowed readers and critics over the years to apply many valid interpretations. The author points out that Ibsen's play is about the roles that people are willing or are forced to play: The role that Nora assumes at the end of the play is just another role - one that she has no idea how to play but feels she must. The paper concludes that Ibsen had to make Nora the explorer into a new world so that the audience might begin to understand his motive of revealing how the strict roles of society have stripped people of their human rights.
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"The other female character has also become a thinking human being through her trials in life. Ironically, Mrs. Linde because of her ability to think chooses to marry Krogstad during the course of the play. She says in regard to Krogstad's letter that she does not want him to ask for it back because "a whole day's gone by and I've witnessed things in this house that I could hardly believe...This wretched secret must be brought into the open so that there's complete understanding between them". Mrs. Linde's objective is not to destroy their marriage put to force Torvald and Nora to be honest..." with themselves and each other. Mrs. Linde has realized the necessity of this kind of honesty through her life of hardship which is why she decides to marry Krogstad. She accepts that he is not perfect and not a model man of the middle-class, but he can give her what she wants to be happy.
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Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2005.
This paper explains that, although exaggerated for theatrical purpose, Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" presents an accurate portrayal of women's status in marriage at that time.
2,075 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 95.95
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This paper explains that, at the time Henrik Ibsen wrote his play "A Doll's House", the popular culture of the day encouraged women to focus obsessively on their home and families. The author relates that Torvald's attitude towards Nora is reflected throughout the play in his use of amusing names for her, which emphasize his superior position; the only time he calls her by her real name Nora is when he is lecturing her about her careless spending, scolds her for speaking to Krogstad and essentially orders her to never lie to him. The paper relates that, while clearly Torvald sees Nora as an entertaining child who must be guided, Nora's conversations with her friend Mrs. Linde show that, to some extent, he is right.
Table of Contents
Thesis
Introduction
Women at the End of the 19th Century and the "Cult of Domesticity"
How Torvald Relates to Nora
Examples from Act I
Examples from Act II
Examples from Act III
How Nora Relates to Torvald
Manipulation
Lies
Nora's Solution
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"Finally, she lies and says that one of the children tampered with the mailbox. Nora is distressed by her lying, believing as Torvald does that her lies may somehow result in the ruination of her children. Nora's life as a wife is defined by the "cult of domesticity." Her action to get a loan to save her husband's life was a strong and independent thing to do, and in conflict with beliefs at that time regarding women. She had to hide her actions or risk looking like a woman who did not know how to behave properly."
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Henrik Ibsen?s "Doll's House", 2005.
A look at the character relationships in Henrik Ibsen's play "Doll's House".
924 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 47.95
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This paper describes the relationships between the characters in this play, the consequences of those relationships and why the marriage between Nora and Helmer is ultimately one that is shallow and based on hypocrisy.
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"Kristine Linde and Nils Krogstad are apparently two minor characters in Henrik Ibsen's play 'Doll's House'. When we meet them for the very first time, they are both surrounded by unfortunate circumstances. Kristine was Mrs. Linde windowed some ten years ago and finally returning to her town to acquire a job at the bank where Torvald Helmer is the manager. Nils Krogstad is in a subordinate position at the very same back and he is a widower with several children. Kristine and Krogstad had been close acquaintances at one time in the past. This is clear from Kristine's initial reaction at seeing Krogstad at Nora's house and her confession that she knew him."
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Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2006.
An analysis of the main character in Henrik Ibsen's famous play "A Doll's House".
2,733 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 119.95
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This paper analyzes Nora, the main character in "A Doll's House" and examines the different facets of her personality. The paper discusses both her businesswoman persona that she has kept secret and the little doll persona that she displays for her father and her husband. The paper also compares the story in "A Doll's House" to Ibsen's real life, pointing out similarities between the two and looks at similarities between dilemmas faced by today's women and the women that lived in the era of the novel. Finally, the paper concludes that Nora, in spite of the persona that she projected to her husband and father for so long, is actually a strong, flexible and proud woman.
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"In reading what other critics and readers have written about the character Norma Helmer, it appears that her character evolved or was in the process of evolving through out the play. Definitely, she like many women of the 19th Century, carefully hid her strength behind a sweet doll-like demeanor that was at best a fabrication to placate the expectations of her domineering husband and the belief by society at large, that women were weak silly creatures. On the other hand, in presenting this persona, Nora also lied to herself about her own strength and until she revealed herself, she denied her husband the right of the spouse to really know whom he really married. But then maybe Torvald did not really want to know the darker and stronger side of Nora. He was an unappreciative boor for all of her hard work in his name. So we really see the two central characters as they really are at the end of the play. Nora is strong, flexible but proud, and Torvald is a priggish weak egotistical person."
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"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, 2005.
This paper analyzes the character of Nora in Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 116.95
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This paper analyzes the character of Nora in Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" and examines her reasons for abandoning her husband and children at the end of the play. It is an argumentative paper, defending Nora's decision.
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"Ibsen's "A Doll's House" was a very controversial play when it was first written in because of the character Nora and how she abandons her husband and children at the end of the play. Ibsen dealt with the problem of women's rights, not as an activist but as a facet of reality within his play. He wanted to bring the issue to light."
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Marital Relationships in Ibsen?s "Doll House", 2006.
An analysis of the main characters in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House".
1,577 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 75.95
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This paper describes and analyzes the characters of Nora and Torvald in Henrik Ibsen's novel, "A Doll House", explaining that the marriage between the couple is based on deceit and fantasy and that the couple is not prepared to deal with the reality of their marriage or the reality of each other's true nature.
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"The relationship between Nora and Torvald in A Doll House is unrealistic and based upon each one of them playing a role that has been determined by convention and by the influence of both Nora's father and Torvald. The couple does really know each other and are unprepared to cope with adversity together. It is a relationship in which Torvald is the dominant character and Nora works in underhanded ways to get the things she wants. The title of the play has been widely mistaken for A Doll's House. But the fact that Ibsen called it a "doll house" can be attributed to two things. A doll house is a toy house where toy people live; and the house in the play is not Nora's at all. It is completely owned by Torvald, whom has all the financial and legal responsibilities of the marriage. It is truly a doll house and she and Torvald live a fantasy life there. This is the core of the plot.
When the play opens we see Nora come into the house and we hear Torvald calling to her from offstage. He speaks to her condescendingly, as if she were a child. He calls her names like "little squirrel" and "scatterbrain" that are on the surface meant to connote affection but actually reveal that he does not take her seriously and does not actually respect her. He makes a truly condescending statement when he says, "Nora, Nora! How like a woman." "
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Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2006.
An analysis of the significance of the title of Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House".
1,442 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 14 sources, MLA, AU$ 69.95
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Henrik Ibsen entitled his play "dukkehjem", i.e., a doll's home. It is the original anonymous English translator who introduced the "doll's house". This paper argues that both titles were deliberately chosen as a direct indication of the different significance that the author and the translator respectively, wished it to give to the play.
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"Nora is stereotyped to the end, and beyond: she theatrically threatens to suicide, she expects Torvald to "come forward and take everything upon [himself] and say: I am the guilty one" (70) only so that she could make another glorious sacrifice and when he doesn't, she pouts: "I had been living with a stranger and had borne him three children" (70) (not "with him", but "borne him" children). It is also the stereotyped immature-female who just runs away, giving no thought to how she will survive out there but insisting she would "receive nothing from stranger" (71), declaring she'll stay at Christine's (taking for granted she'll accept) then storming out of the house. And storm she did: the final stage direction is "the sound of a door is heard from below" - given that people have been coming and going throughout the play,and not once the door is heard, for Torvald (and the audience) to hear it from below, Nora must have slammed it, highlighting her theatrical exit. "
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Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2001.
An analysis of the characters in the play, "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, with a focus on the wife, Nora and her non-acceptance of reality.
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This paper looks at Henrik Ibsen's play "The Doll's House" and how the theme of deception runs through it. The author shows how from the start the character of Nora seems too perfect-- perfect wife, perfect woman, but towards the end the truth emerges when Nora's true character is revealed.
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"Nora is a sheltered housewife who is domineered by he husband, until circumstances force her to show her own independence. Nora was a perfect wife at the beginning of the play, but there were underlying deceptions beneath the perfection.
"From the start of the play, we realize that there was a general sense of falsehood in the Helmer house, brought on mostly by Nora's inability or unwillingness to accept the real world. Nora's desire to conceal the truth from Torvald and herself is further augmented by the patriarchal attitudes of Torvald towards her and her open acceptance and manipulation of such treatment in order to further suppress reality. Nora's departure, as well as being an escape from a house of lies is also an opportunity for personal growth and the means by which she discovers reality."
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Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2000.
A discussion of Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" and its theme of the domination of women.
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This paper examines Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" to show how Ibsen illustrates his point that women have the potential to be independent and forceful, but in a society that is controlled by men, they have to make deep sacrifices in order to achieve their rights.
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"A patriarchy is defined as a social system in which a community or society is governed by men. For centuries, women have been under the domination of men in patriarchal social systems. In these systems, women are dominated by the law and by repression. Henrik Ibsen?s A Doll?s House shows how women are paternalistically dominated in a society that is governed by men. The protagonist, Nora, is treated like a doll child first by her father and then by her husband. She is never allowed to evolve as a person, and as a result, she is considered to be delightful, ignorant, whimsical, and foolish by the other characters. Yet beneath her twittering, girlish exterior is a woman who has the potential to be independent and forceful, but whose efforts are hampered by the male characters in the play. She is a virtual captive in a lovely dollhouse created by her husband, where her husband keeps her for his amusement."
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Krogstad: Noras Foil Character In Ibsens "Doll's House", 2004.
A brief look at how Ibsen uses Krogstad as a foil character in his play.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 34.95
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This paper presents a brief look at how Henrik Ibsen uses Krogstad as a foil character in order to create more audience sympathy for Nora in his famous play, "The Doll's House".
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"The ultimate goal of drama is believed to be the audience's suspension of disbelief for the brief time that they are watching the play. That said it does not follow that works of drama do not have other purposes as well. They are meant to make the audience think about the world beyond the stage about society and about the minds of individuals. Such is the case with Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Ibsen uses minor characters and subplot ..."
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'A Doll's House' and "Sonny's Blues' Compared, 2006.
A look at the similarities and differences in the main characters in Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" and James Baldwin's story "Sonny's Blues".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper compares the main characters in Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" and James Baldwin's story "Sonny's Blues", noting that the world inhabited by the characters in Ibsen's "The Doll's House" and that of the characters in James Baldwin's "Sonny Blues" are very different and widely separated in time and place.
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"The world inhabited by the characters in Ibsen's A Doll's House and that of the characters in James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" are very different, widely separated in time and place. In each case, however, the main character, Nora in "A Doll's House" and Sonny in "Sonny's Blues," face a society that is changing and have some trouble dealing with the nature of this change and specifically with the changes they themselves are making. Nora makes a change more from necessity than desire, given her realization of the falseness of the world her husband has built for the family and desirous of asserting herself in a world where the old truths are shown to be hollow."
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Feminism in "A Doll's House", 2003.
This paper explores the significance of the connections between Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House" and the rise of feminism.
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This paper explains how the behavior of Nora, the main character in "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, is connected to the title in the sense that she is like a doll living in a doll's house. This lifestyle was common during the Victorian Era, the time period in which the play was written, and gave fuel to the fire of rising feminism. The paper shows that the play's most significant feature is the real-life change that it sparked in the lifestyles of women in the late nineteenth century.
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"A Doll?s House, written by Henrik Ibsen, is a play that shocked audiences upon its release. The author wrote it to say something about commonplace marriages that took place during the late nineteenth century. The title, A Doll?s House refers to the disempowered position of the wife in referring to her as a doll. This play helped to begin the feminist movement, where women began to stand up for themselves and question the legitimacy of the societal conditioning. What makes this play connected to feminism lies in its title, the fact that it was written during the Victorian Era, and the way it began the destruction of the gender roles that are still apparent today."
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"A Doll's House", 2005.
An analysis of the theme of feminism in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House".
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This analysis of Henrik Ibsen's drama, "A Doll's House" provides a feminist critique of the play and in particular, the reasons why Nora is willing to sacrifice her security, her home, the children she loves and the husband she no longer loves in the name of autonomy and self-expression. The analysis also includes a discussion of Victorian norms and gender roles that limit such autonomy and self-expression.
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"This paper was to explore feminism in the Victorian era as it is illustrated in Ibsen's A Doll's House. The writer reflected on contemporary norms and gender roles to gain insight into the even more limiting norms and gender roles.."
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