The Doll Breaks Free A Doll’s House is a play written by Henrik Ibsen, the first performance of the play was on December 21st, 1879 in the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ibsen is a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. His other popular pieces include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder just to name a few. During this time, women were still suppressed and lived their lives simply to raise children and serve their husbands. The main character, Nora, experiences this suppression and frees herself from her doll like lifestyle. Nora is an example of feminist progression in the 1800s. In the first act of the play, Nora and her husband, Torvald Helmer, seem happily
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For example, a negative review of Nora’s grand exit,
“But for over a hundred years, Nora has been under direct siege as exhibiting the most perfidious characteristics of her sex; the original outcry of the 1880s is swollen now to a mighty chorus of blame. She is denounced as an irrational and frivolous narcissist; an "abnormal" woman, a "hysteric"; a vain, unloving egoist who abandons her family in a paroxysm of selfishness” (Templeton 29).
Here, a critic argues that Nora is selfish and unloving, which may be true, depending on how you see it. If you are not a feminist, you may see Nora as selfish and leaving her husband and kids was not the right thing to do, but she did what was right for herself, which is a bit selfish. A feminist would argue that her grand exit was past due. Nora has long played into the suppression of women by men and other critics would argue that her grand exit symbolized her setting herself free. A feminist would argue that she is strong enough to leave her husband and children and Torvald can take care of the children on his
For example, a negative review of Nora’s grand exit,
“But for over a hundred years, Nora has been under direct siege as exhibiting the most perfidious characteristics of her sex; the original outcry of the 1880s is swollen now to a mighty chorus of blame. She is denounced as an irrational and frivolous narcissist; an "abnormal" woman, a "hysteric"; a vain, unloving egoist who abandons her family in a paroxysm of selfishness” (Templeton 29).
Here, a critic argues that Nora is selfish and unloving, which may be true, depending on how you see it. If you are not a feminist, you may see Nora as selfish and leaving her husband and kids was not the right thing to do, but she did what was right for herself, which is a bit selfish. A feminist would argue that her grand exit was past due. Nora has long played into the suppression of women by men and other critics would argue that her grand exit symbolized her setting herself free. A feminist would argue that she is strong enough to leave her husband and children and Torvald can take care of the children on his