Though a majority of critics claim that Ibsen's works do not fall into this genre, the dramatic structure and protagonists of A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler prove that these works are feminist in nature. ... Nora Helmer of A Doll's House has faced extreme criticism as a feminist icon. ... Joan Templeton, author of The Doll House Backlash: Criticism, Feminism, and Ibsen, explores the foundations of such unfair criticism. ... Such a goal is based upon an " overwhelmingly deductive reasoning, while never laid out, is that since true art cannot be about feminism and since A Do...

• Word Count: 1867
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How does Ibsen explore ways of thinking about European society and the individual in A Dolls House? By Sam Rose-Hill Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House, transcends socio-cultural barriers by delineating the fundamental importance of women in a dominantly patriarchal society. ... Nora is portrayed as delicate, fragile, and as the title aptly implies: doll-like. ... This aspect of A Dolls House is Ibsen's primary criticism of the 19th century in which it was written. ... Torvald's assumption that because of her gender Nora cannot save her "pennies- is an example of the creedances tha...

• Word Count: 707
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Set in 19th century Victorian era Norway, Henrik Ibsen's tri-partite play A Doll's House explores the idea that status and wealth influence people's lives. ... Ibsen conveys that wealth can give power over others and their own decisions. ... Similarly, Ibsen uses props to develop this idea. ... Ibsen uses the technique of stage directions to convey this idea. ... Throughout Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, the themes of status and wealth are prevalent throughout and causes the characters that are in control, such as Torvald, to be seen as dominant however without a true ...

• Word Count: 926
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Through Nora in A Doll's House, Ibsen shows how women at the time had to appear economically dependent, in order to appease the fragile male ego, though many secretly harboured a desire for financial independence. ... Ibsen here shows men's insecurity over their position in society. ... Through the setting of A Doll's House, a single room in which all events take place, Ibsen may be showing the reader here that, as society expected women to remain in the house, as dolls' to be played with by men, they are often kept in a locked box', this suffocating atmosphere causi...

• Word Count: 1558
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In the two plays, "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen and "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller present causes of conflict within relationships in both similar and different ways between characters in the plays. ... In "A Doll's House," we see Torvald attacking Nora on this issue of responsibility. ... Ibsen makes good use of foreshadowing in "A Doll's House" to create dramatic effect. ... This contrasts with the money issue in "A Doll's House" as Torvald gives Nora money he earns when she requests. ... In "A Doll's House," we see that Nora falls out of love with Torvald which i...

• Word Count: 1949
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Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire- and Ibsen's "A Doll's House-: Dramatic Conflict in the Male/Female Relationship In any narrative, the development of the plot and the creation of compelling characters depends on a single literary element: the presence of conflict. ... It is the masterful portrayal of this age-old conflict between the sexes that serves as the dramatic centerpiece in both Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire- and Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House."" ... In "A Doll's House,"" Henrik Ibsen similarly centers the dramatic conflict...

• Word Count: 2278
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The mise-en-scene of the room which is Ibsen's only set give the play a sense of claustrophobia which works very well, it adds to the feeling of being trapped. ... Both Nora's father and Torvald, treated Nora as a possession, a doll, an occurrence that has run throughout her life. ... Ibsen has moved many concepts of the genre and placed them in a domestic setting. ... The structural use of the classic tragedy allows Ibsen to expose and venture to his audience ideas of divorce laws and venereal disease, both controversial and possibly before held open to the audience unthinkab...

• Word Count: 957
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The Tragedy of Inequality: Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House- as Tragedy A critic by the name of Dorothea Krook treats A Doll House as a tragedy because it has what she takes to be the four universal elements of the genre: the act of shame or horror, consequent intense suffering, a consequent increase in knowledge, and, finally, a reaffirmation of the value of life. ... Aside from Krook's elements, further indication that A Doll House is a tragedy is the occurrence of a tragic hero along with elements of anagnorisis (recognition) and harmantia (tragic flaw). ... Ibsen demonstrates the ...

• Word Count: 1553
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Modern marriage consists of an equal partnership between two individuals. However, in the nineteenth-century setting in which Henrik Ibsen set his play, "A Doll's House," marriage was an institution with strict social standards of the roles for both men and women. Men were the independent providers,...

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The representation of women as being dominated, lacking independence and tied to the role of motherhood carried on through the rest of the 1800's in the form of plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A Dolls House, written shortly after what was considered to be the mid-Victorian period, 1879, it tells of Nora's fight against her husband's dominance, and her struggle to break the chains of social standards and rules, this was a period when women were expected to get married and raise children, they did not have a say in, or responsibility outside the home, this situation was typical ...

• Word Count: 1599
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The strain of having limited and insecure affluence is the context of Peter Pan, which opens in the nursery of a house "at the top of a rather depressed street in Bloomsbury- (87). The house is so nondescript that Barrie advises, "you may dump it down anywhere you like, and if you think it was your house you are very probably right- (87). While this is a particular house, belonging to the Darling family, Barrie assumes that members of his audience recognize and identify with it because they, like the Darlings, are middle class: if they don't live in a house like the Darlings', they k...

• Word Count: 7291
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate