In literature, a psychoanalytical perspective examines the motives of the characters in a story or play, the author or playwright, and the impression left on the reader. When emotions, subconscious desires and thoughts, and internal struggles run amuck they can drive a person to do things they would not ordinarily do. In Henrick Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, the main character Nora Helmer finds herself facing these challenges as her "perfect" life turns upside down and she discovers that even actions made with the best of intentions can have drastic consequences, and secrets can only remain secrets for so long. .
The title A Doll's House is symbolic of Nora Helmer's life, first as her father's living doll, then her husband's. She lived in a world of feigned reality where she was a figurine placed wherever her husband or father wanted her to be, and told how she should feel, think, and act. No one took her seriously, or thought of her as anything more than a child. Naturally, as her secret comes out it is surprising to see that there is more to her character than first told. While most people know that forging a name on anything is illegal and wrong, one has to ask - is Norma even aware of what she has done before she is told? She might really be so ignorant to the ways of the outside world that she has no idea, and only wants to help her husband in any way possible. Would it also be possible that she is fully aware and thinks she will get away with it before anyone finds out? After all, she tells no one and panics when her story begins unraveling before her. She could very well be in denial, reasoning with herself that she obviously did it for good reasons. It could also be an internal cry for freedom from her artificial prison, for a chance to do something on her own, and break the monotony. Whatever her motive, her true character comes out by the end of the play and she finally realizes the life she has been living.
The play A Doll House takes place in an oppressive society. ... Nora Helmer acts like any other housewife living in a Victorian era, during Act I. ... All Nora has ever been to Torvald is a doll. ... Henrik Ibsen examines social issues throughout the play A Doll House. Characters, society, and morality double standards are looked at during this play. ...
First, Hedda is "dominated by her father in her early life - his lasting presence is symbolized by the great portrait which hangs in the living room" (Walkington 64). ... 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 Doll's House is true art, then A Do...
They are learning to weave, tidy up the house, and bring water from the sea, when they are not tending to the children. ... This in turn sets them into a sexual life and a more adult life earlier than the lives of children in our culture. ... In turn, the men are not allowed to enter the formal weaving house or the house where the women are making the tapa in a group. ... The women typically stay close to the kitchen all day and the men are usually in a living room surrounding a TV. ... This could be caused, in part by the way that girls are given kitchen sets and baby dolls as children, an...
At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. ... The social pressure bearing down on all sides, influenced by the media, by the press, touted in the ladies home journal, if you just do this, you"ll be happy, if you just buy this soap, this house, this washer and dryer. ... But there was a drive, as heard in Catcher in the Rye and even in Rebel with out a Cause, an echo of the kids searching for something bigger, something that will make life worth living. ... T...
The Rave Community According to Webster's dictionary a community is defined as a body of people living in the same place under the same laws. ... Spaces were broken into to house these parties or a group of hundreds of kids would just show up on someone's privet land (hyperreal.org). ... Another form of dress common among girls is what is called baby doll dress. ... The people who are members of this underground community are very allusive though; it is almost as though they live a double life. ... PLUR stands for Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect, and ravers use it not only in t...
William Butler Yeats met Maud Gonne in 1889 under an apple blossom, having never thought "to see in a living woman so much beauty". He later admitted that at his meeting with Gonne, "all the trouble of my life began." ... When Maud had her affair with Fergus Wolff, "Fergus had divined how afraid she was of the doll-mask and had dealt with it in his own way, daring her to let it all hang out, quoting Yeats at her in his Irish voice. ... ""Life is so short" said Roland. ... When a detective tried to gain entry to her house, her housekeeper shouted "you double murderer, daring to touch a la...
Bands like the New York Dolls, and the White Trash Debutantes dressed in outrageous women's clothing and played loud, distorted, simple progressions with hard, driving beats behind them. ... While it was open it housed several off-Broadway productions, including Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Proposition", a satirical review. It was also the launch pad for bands like the "New York Dolls," "Ruby and the Rednecks," "Teenage Lust," and Wayne County's "Queen Elizabeth and the Harlots of 42nd Street." On many nights painted glitter dolls thronged the bar,...
Beliefs in honouring ancestors and the deities and living in balance with the forces of nature are parts of Santeria principles. ... Ashe is the sustenance of life. ... In an ile, people are related to each other not by blood, but by being in the same orisha "house-. ... Sometimes a santero will use a black doll as a dynamic representation of the eggun. The doll is the medium through which the eggun may be contacted. ...
Everything we use in our day-to-day lives, from forks to food and hats to houses, has been designed in some way. ... For example, looking around the home for different types of puppets; toy cars or dolls; clothes or shoes; packaging and cakes and biscuits. ...
