1. A Doll
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Hedda's doll house' is put into question due to the very fact that Hedda, always in want of "power- and "to feel that I [Hedda] control a human destiny-, knew exactly what type of marriage she was entering into. As Tesman explained "we got married on our expectations- of high social and (therefore) high economical standing. The economical standing is important to note from Tesman's perspective at least as the audience is made aware by Ibsen that Tesman is not in the any part affected or insulted by LÖvborg's affirmation that he wishes to "outshine- Tesman "in reputation-. One might argue that the "honour- is more important and prestigious than the economic aspect, however Tesman is presented to not appreciate this. This can also serve as an example of Ibsen trying to manipulate the audience into believing one thing. However one must also consider that Tesman wished to respectively clear his debts as soon as possible, especially to his aunt and to have the means to give Hedda anything she desires, therefore it becomes harder to disapprove of Tesman's desire of "position- over "reputation-. Of course any thoughts on these plays stems from Ibsen's own designs and one must ask why Ibsen has written his drama thus. Had Ibsen written these plays to deliberately catalyst the feminist movement in Norway? Or was he suggesting that the heroines here were responsible for the own situations and some sympathy must therefore go to the husbands Tesman and Torvald? .
Some answers for these question may be found if one looks into Ibsen's life. Ibsen's real life friend Laura Kielma (a suggested inspiration for Nora) was a lady trapped (or imprisoned) inside a marriage she longed to be free from. Laura was referred to with pet-names' and she herself, like Nora, forged a signature for a loan. However the result of Laura story was that she suffered a nervous breakdown after she and her husband returned for the warmer climate holiday that the loan had paid for.
Hedda's opposition to such norms make her easily comparable to "Nora, the equally infamous heroine of A Doll's House, and many of Ibsen's other heroines, Hedda says no to marriage, motherhood, selflessness, and separate spheres" (Barstow 397). ... 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 ...
Nora and Antigone, True Tragic Heroines Sophocles" Antigone along with Ibsen's A Doll's House are plays that place the main characters in tough personal situations which must be overcame by personal strength. ... Both women could be considered as cultural heroines because they overcame family adversities by defying the social standards set for women. ... Nora from A Doll's House also has to decide where the line should be drawn between right and wrong. ... Creon in Antigone and Torvald in A Doll's House act as the antagonist of each play; both are males who are arroga...
Henrik Ibsen's play entitled A Doll's House is very similar to Euripides play Medea. ... The heroin puts her plan into action killing both the king and the princess. ... There are other "parallels" in these plays aside form the heroines and their husbands. ... Both characters have the power to take away from the heroines. ... Both heroines contemplated suicide. ...
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This theme is examined in several ways in the heroines' lives. ... At this time, women were finally resisting being viewed as helpless dolls that must be wound up in order to perform daily tasks as house-wives. The Beast introduces the heroine to the wind-up soubrette: "That clockwork girl who powdered my cheeks for me; had I not been allotted only the same kind of imitative life amongst men that the doll-maker had given her"(Carter 63). The doll reminds her so much of herself, she calls it her "clockwork twin"(Carter 60). ... Like a doll, women are also unable to thin...
," with a syringe full of heroin sticking out of her arm was not something mom and dad wanted their daughter to go see on a Saturday night date with the boy from down the block, and the kids loved it. ... 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 thronge...