A DOLL"S HOUSE written by, Henrik Ibsen is recognized as a landmark contribution to modern theater. ... In Ibsen's play, A DOLL"S HOUSE, he says what can I not say. ... Being on of the most controversial part of the play, the end comes, and with it the doll's house tumbles down, and Nora discards her doll's dress, she shed her skin, as it were. ... When Nora closes behind her the door of her doll's house, she opens wide the gate of life for women, and proclaims the revolutionary message that only perfect freedom and communion make a true bond between man and woman, meet...

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A Doll's House As all little girls did when they were young, I would spend my days playing dolls and house, making up stories and dreaming up of the perfect life. ... In A Doll's House, however, we read of a woman subjected to a man's game. ... A Doll's House emphasized the worth of the individual is of supreme importance not just a character in a play. ... (Ibsen, 979) In the Doll House there is quite a bit of foreshadowing; one example of it is when Nora is speaking with Mrs. ... To have a clean, beautiful house, the way Torvald likes it.""...

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Among his most successful works are '"Brand" (1865), "Peer Gynt" (1867), "The League of Youth" (1868); his later works included "The Pillars of Society" (1 877), "A Doll's House " (1879), and '"Ghosts " (1881). Ibsen's technique of putting his characters into dramatic situations to show the dynamics of the individual, is exemplified by his most renowned play, '"A Doll's House". ... She feels that she is a doll with which her husband and children may play. ... At the end of this scene, Nora walks out of the house with a stunned husband left behind. ...

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The typical type of play that was popular at the time that Ibsen wrote A Doll's House contained the same type of characters: the aggressive father, the innocent damsel-in-distress type, the jealous husband, the loyal friend, guilty secrets and unfound identities. ... The characters in A Doll's House are superficial on the outside but less so on the inside. ... She acts as the "comforter" in the house, for whenever there is danger, Nora will give the children to the maid, because she feels they are not safe in her charge. ...

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"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams, "A Raisin In The Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry, and "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen. ... In the play "A Doll's House", I found the ending to be appropriate. The symbols of The Christmas Tree, and New Year's Day were very good as they represented Nora's position in her house and marriage. ... Who knows maybe someday she"ll find true love, someone who will love her for being herself, and not like that as of a doll. ...

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He could speak through the dolls without having to entirely open up. ... He observed that all the doors and windows on the house were closed. ... He would reenact events that happened in his house using the dolls. ... They suggested that doctor Axline come to their house and have the therapy in his playroom. ...

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