It was Christmas Eve and Norah Helmer has just arrived home after completing her Christmas shopping list which includes a horse and a sword for her male children and a doll for her female child. She paid the porter twice of how much she owed him, went inside the house and ate some macaroons before her husband, Torvald Helmer, came out of his study room […]

A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen The Subordinate Woman 4/2/2010 DePauw University Mira Yaseen Mira Yaseen Professor Anthony Comm 214 2 April 2010 A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen The Subordinate Woman In the wake of realism, Ibsen came upon us with an outspoken controversial play that encompassed many realities of the conservative Victorian era. Presenting a genuine image of the societal issues at the […]

House by Henrik Ibsen is my favorite play that we read this semester. A main reason I liked this play was because of the writer himself. Ibsen is a realistic writer who took his problems from his day and brought it to life on stage. A Doll’s House deals with where women stand in their marriage and society. Ibsen felt injustice to what society was […]

You have, perhaps, never heard a discussion or symposium on the subject, “Men-their role in the society. The discussion is always about women. Men have, perhaps, no role! Men can as well do, some of the jobs normally done by women. Even today, the best chefs are men! The never-ending talk to give equal rights to women has been going on since time immemorial. But […]

Marriage, as an institution, facilitates the union of man and woman enabling them to raise a family. The wellbeing and happiness of the family depends equally on the man and the woman. But this equality is imperceptible in married relations, even in the modern society. The woman always compromises for the sake of her family and abandons her freedom. The play “A Doll House” by […]

Analysis of A Doll’s House by Henrick Ibsen Shira Simmons South University Online Kris Shelton March 12, 2013 A Doll’s House has several high points that lead up to what I’ve considered the most defining moment. When Torvald finally reads the letter Krogstad (a fellow schoolmate and an employee at the bank) wrote revealing that it was not from Nora’s father that she borrowed money, […]

A Doll’s House, a play written by Henrick Ibsen, is centered on a woman who is married to a man who has trapped her in their home in his own little ways. The woman seemed to be a lifeless doll living in a doll house, doing only what is told to do. In the end, all the primness made her completely lifeless which made her […]

The relationship between the two main characters of Nora and Helmer in “A Doll’s House” are established through the dialogue and stage directions which take place in Act One. The relationship is very representative of the time period in which it is set, Helmer, the husband is the head of the household and is the most important in the family status he controls the family’s […]

‘Ms Julia’ and ‘A Dolls House’ are both late 19th Century plays. In the late 19th Century, England was the most economically powerful nation in the world, with naval supremacy and an extensive empire. There was great social change; the nation was becoming more literate and expressive, giving birth to the expression ‘art for art’s sake’. As a result, controversy and conflict occurred during this […]

It all started as I branched out of the dark inner core of the red bricked doll house that I had previously occupied. I was instantaneously burst by an almost blinding array of sunlight. I paused for a swift second, quickly in taking a deep breath as a faint wind crawled passed me, making me wince ever so slightly. I blinked as if trying to […]