Henrik Ibsen uses Nora Helmer in A Doll House to portray the negative treatment of all women throughout society during the nineteenth century. Many women characters throughout American literature reflect the same conflicts and attitudes of Nora in Ibsen's play A Doll House. ... In the play A Doll House, Nora too finds happiness in keeping her husband pleased. ... In A Doll House Torvald is very dominating over his wife, Nora. ...

• Word Count: 1949
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Heroics of Women Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is a play about a young wife and her husband. ... The man of the house was expected to be the sole provider. ... They were there to support their husbands and help carry on the tasks of keeping the house in order, or they"re to care for their fathers and clean his house of generally care for him. ... (Williams 174) This is seen in "A Doll's House" by the fact that at the conclusion of the show, Nora walks out of the apartment as the strong hero, while Helmer is left standing there weak and destroyed. Ibsen did not wri...

• Word Count: 1947
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora and Torvald Helmer show the possible effects of gender conflict in a marriage. ... At the very heart of A Doll's House is gender conflict. ... The climax of A Doll's House comes when Nora finally recognizes that she can no longer live as Torvald's "most treasured possession"(956), and goes through a change in character. ... At the beginning of A Doll's House, Nora and Torvald play the part of the happy couple not only to the outside world, but also to one another. ... Nora shows this when she sets out to discover herself and ...

• Word Count: 1484
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... 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 causing women to feel isolated from outside society, and become desirous of free...

• Word Count: 1558
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For years, it has been argued whether or not Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House is a play presenting the feminist arguments of the Nineteenth century. ... Nora played the part of a doll, in a doll house, so to speak. ... Nora's exit form her "Doll's House" became a symbol for women everywhere. ... Nora was tired of being a doll and a pet to Torvald. ... In A Doll's House, Ibsen tried to present this as an issue to be dealt with. ...

• Word Count: 1781
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Falling in love with several men, none of whom were her husband, sending her children away, moving out of her house, not continuing with her passion for painting, suicide; in all of these circumstances, and more, an example of indecisiveness and the desire to renounce something is present. My main reasoning for her sudden independence was that she was all along treated like a doll: " You are burnt beyond recognition, he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage- (Chopin 201). ... The same line of reasoning goes into why sh...

• Word Count: 1285
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the short stories "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver and "Girls at War" by Chinua Achebe, the theme of blindness is prevalent. In "The Cathedral" Robert, the man who comes to visit, is physically blind, but in his mind, he sees things more clearly than most others do. His "mental-vision" is seen when ...

• Word Count: 1281
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School