Essays About Dolls House

Helmer is one of the central characters of A Doll’s House. At the beginning of the play he is seen as the loving husband, a little patronising, but kind and caring nevertheless. However, by the end of the play our views of him have changed, he is not seen as such an admired figure. Throughout…

A doll’s House has alot of qualities about it which most plays often don’t have. The sub-text within the play is really intense because characters say one thing yet mean another. This mainly happens with Nora’s character as she has alot going on that she doesn’t want her husband to know about. Mainly where alot…

The form and structure of A Dolls House is much different to anything else that has been written more recently, as it has a whole different structure to anything else around, both a the time it was written and now. The People of the time condemned this play, as it reversed the typical roles of…

Ibsen wrote ‘A Dolls House’ in 1879 – a time for of major social change, when women’s suffrage was at a recognised focal point and more and more women were striving for equality and independence. A social drama on marriage, it raises questions about the female self-sacrifice in a male dominant world. The play focuses on…

The action of this play is about a woman named Nora who has an ill husband so she borrows some money to take her family to another warmer country where torvald, her husband can get better. However it is set in the 19th centaury and when Nora borrows the money from a crocked man, the…

Miss Julie which was published nine years after Ibsen’ realist play A Doll’s House, is an example of naturalist movement which tried to show that heredity, environment and social conditions rather than hard work shape an individual’s fate. Strindberg considering himself a naturalist and being an opponent of Ibsen’s ideas in A Doll’s House, wrote…

Henrik Ibsen portrayed the protagonist (Nora Helmer) of A Doll’s House as someone who went through a series of trials and tribulations. As the story developes she realizes that she is unsatisfied with the stereotypical role that society had forced her to play. In the beginning of the story Ibsen chose to have the reader…

One of A Doll’s House’s central theme is secession from society. It is demonstrated by several of its characters breaking away from the social standards of their time and acting on their own terms. No one character demonstrates this better than Nora. During the time in which the play took place society frowned upon women…

Katherine Mansfield “The doll’s house” The world of the adults seems to be in conflict with the world of the children in Katherine Mansfields “the doll house”. The dolls house represents this conflict by pointing out the divide between the upper and lower class citizen which all the adults clearly understand and the children don’t…

Doll’s House By IbsenIn reading Ibsen’s A Doll’s House today, one may find it hard to imagine howdaring 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, thereare many clues that hint at the kind of marriage Nora…

Doll’s House Play”A Doll’s House” is classified under the “second phase” ofHenrik Ibsen’s career. It was during this period which he made the transitionfrom mythical and historical dramas to plays dealing with social problems. Itwas the first in a series investigating the tensions of family life. Writtenduring the Victorian era, the controversial play featuring a…

Is Feminism really a theme in Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House?In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House someone reading the book might say that feminism is a large theme in the story. But is it? I would have to say that it is. Throughout the play there are many examples of Torvald treating Nora badly and in a…

A Doll’s House: Full of Tidy EndingsIt has been said that great works of drama have a universality about them, a timelessness all their own. Many important plays have similarities to one another regardless of the time in which they were written because of this fact. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Harvey Fierstein’s On…

One of A Doll’s House’s central theme is secession from society. It is demonstrated by several of its characters breaking away from the social standards of their time and acting on their own terms. No one character demonstrates this better than Nora. During the time in which the play took place society frowned upon women…

Interpretation Of Ibsens “a Dolls House”Interpretation of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House””A Doll’s House” is classified under the “second phase” of HenrikIbsen’s career. It was during this period which he made the transition frommythical and historical dramas to plays dealing with social problems. It was thefirst in a series investigating the tensions of family life. Written…

Without tragedy interfering, one’s present life will be affected and in many ways dependent on their past. Pertaining to the play A Doll’s House , one could say that the present is pregnant with the past. In A Doll’s House there is a great deal of the past that is still a major part of…

A Doll’s House: A Push to FreedomSometime after the publication of “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen spokeat a meeting of the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights. He explained tothe group, “I must decline the honor of being said to have worked for theWomen’s Rights movement. I am not even very sure what Women’s Rights are….

Interpretation Of Ibsens “A Dolls House””A Doll’s House” is classified under the “second phase” of HenrikIbsen’s career. It was during this period which he made the transitionfrom mythical and historical dramas to plays dealing with social problems. It was the first in a series investigating the tensions of family life. Written during the Victorian era,…

It is important to note that the whole play takes place in one room and that, until the last act, Nora is in every scene; she never seems to leave the roomeverything comes to her. She is literally trapped in domestic comfort. Also, the first Act takes place on Christmas Eve. However, though there is…

In many literary works, there are characters in which portray both similarities and differences. In the Play “A Doll’s House,” by Henrik Ibsen, two of the characters have many oppositions and congruencies. These characters go by the names of Nora Helmer and Mrs. Linde. Ibsen characterizes these women by describing their comparable and contrasting personalities….