Essays on A Doll'S House

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…