A Doll's House Essay Examples and Topics

Ibsen Henrik makes extensive use of symbolism throughout his play “A Doll’s House”, written in 1879. It is a very realistic and naturalistic drama consisting of three acts remaining one of the most striking depictions of the Victorian era gender roles. More specifically, women at…

In the culture of the late-nineteenth-century, men and women were viewed as having strict gender-specific roles in everyday life. Most noticeably, men were supposed to be strong bread-winners of a typical household, whereas women were significantly more dainty and expected to be homemakers. The play…

Concerning the institution of marriage, Dr. Samuel Johnson once opined: “Sir, it is so far from being natural for a man and a woman to live in the state of marriage that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection,…

In the play, A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibesen, the interaction of characters exposes the ideas such as women in society for the audience to think about. For example, from the interaction between Nora and her husband, Torvald, we see that the position of…

Throughout the novel A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, an apparent issue that is portrayed is gender conflict. In the children comic strip we have created we have aimed to highlight numerous concept including the inequitable problem of gender conflict. Nora Helmer represents a feministic…

Before the women’s suffrage and women’s rights movement, women were taught to act like dolls, which is portrayed in the first and second act of “A Doll’s House”. Many women weren’t educated well and their only duties were taking care of the children, the house,…

Nora is the main character in the play A Doll’s House as well as its overall sense of inability and its decisions that seem to be bold at the first notice but become more logical when context and culture are properly considered, making her a…

A Doll’s House is a controversial play penned by Henrick Ibsen and published in 1979. It features Nora Helmer who leads a superficial life and appears to be a delicate, helpless and silly woman to her chauvinistic husband, Torvalds Helmer. In reality, she is an…

“Eveline” a short story in “Dubliners” by James Joyce published in 1914, and “A Doll’s House” is a play by Henrick Ibsen, published in 1879, two separate texts written by two different writers of two different countries, interestingly exhibit almost the same way of the…

 “We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes”, Paul Dunbar. The masks we wear come in various moulds ranging in different emotions from good to bad. In our life, there will come a time, when we must…

A society in which a woman is equal to a man is not a foreign concept in today’s world; however, this was not the case in the time of A Doll’s House author Henrik Ibsen. In this realist drama, Ibsen examines a woman’s struggle for…

When Henrik Ibsen wrote the play ‘’A Doll’s House’’ a major emphasis was laid on humanism and gender roles. This play to a great extent depicts both the character of Nora and Torvald Helmer. These concepts played a great role in literature at that point…

A Doll’s House is one of Henrik Ibsen’s most famous plays as it was a significant addition to feminist literature. As an individual, Ibsen never clearly declared he was a feminist, but this play proves otherwise, through the development of the main protagonist, Nora Helmer….

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House focuses on a Norwegian middle-class family whose very survival is threatened by long-held secrets revolving around family dynamics. The characters portray the complexities underlying the relationships between men and women. Some aspects of the play mirror certain elements in Susan…

Overtime, the role of the woman has changed significantly and has allowed for many more opportunities for them. Men have always been seen as more powerful and dominant over women however, women have developed the abilities and strengths to prove that they are capable of…

In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, both playwrights have shed light on the struggles women face to establish their place in the patriarchal society. While in A Doll’s House women finally triumph over patriarchy, in A Streetcar Named Desire, they…

“A Doll’s House” is one of my favorite novels. Unlike other articles and books I have recently read, the theme of the story makes me think more deeply about gender issues, because this theme is still intimately linked to modern society. Although some of the…

Historical Background A Doll’s House was published in Norway in 1879. The play caused an immediate sensation and sparked debate and controversy. It was highly provoking: People tended to respond strongly to it whether in praise or censure. The play has less shock value today,…

The premiere of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in 1879 ended with the shutting of a door but started a passionate debate about that controversial action. Ibsen crafted an exposition of the social, economic, and psychological conflicts faced by the women of his time, through…

Nora’s Rejection of Social Conformity: The Symbol of Macaroons in Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House social conformity is the central idea around the establishment of Nora and Torvald’s household. The characters throughout the text are all attempting to fit inside the…

In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House and Henry James’ novella Daisy Miller, the main characters embody two controversial topics. The roles of the female and an American were quite different in the time period that these pieces of literature were written in then in…

“Who She Wants to Be” In the end of the “A Doll’s House”, Nora realizes that her father and husband has been controlling her all her life. A quote from a poem that I have read before really reminded me of the situation Nora is…

Throughout the realm of literature, detail is most prominent in written works such as play script, novels, etc. Often times, much of the intricacy of written language vanishes when converting text into a film. In Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, extreme detail showcases aspects…