The Doll's House Essay

Society’s Doll What do you value most in your life? Are your values affected by society? In A Doll’s House, Nora is compared to a doll trapped in its cage, but what about Torvald? He is also trapped in a cage called “society.” During the Victorian Era men were possibly pressured by expectations set for them and all the things they were responsible for. It was probably the same for Torvald. The expectations set towards him is probably the reason why his reputation became the most important…

A Doll’s House ends when Nora leaves her house, husband, kids and her position in the society she belongs, to confront the world by herself. An argument with Torvald, her husband, prompts the disillusioned Nora to take this drastic decision. At the beginning of the play we see a Nora as a childish, silly, superficial and consumerist woman; and Torvald as the loving husband, only provider of the house, who in a very subtle way controls his wife’s actions and expenses. As the story goes on we…

The Juxtaposition of the Themes on Oppositions and Congruencies on A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen The play A Doll’s House was written by Henrik Ibsen in the 18th century. The dramatist wanted to emphasize on the characteristics of Nora and hence he used Mrs Linde, the foil of Nora to put a light on the differences between the two characters. The two characters in the play - Nora and Mrs Linde who are similar yet have distinct personalities. However, the biggest common ground between them is…

Throughout a Doll’s House How can Nora be portrayed as a quester? “Goodbye, Torvald and my children”(Ibsen 62). Nora may not be seen as a quester, but there are specific details that may lead the reader to believe that she is one. She married a rich, young, and wealthy man, named Torvald. A quester is made up of certain characteristics that make he or she a true inquisitor. The first characteristic is there has to be a quester involved and a destination to go. A stated reason to go there and…

A Doll’s house Play by Henrik Ibsen Plot summary: Nora a women, a wife and a mother; breaks the law by forgering her father’s signature to borrow money for her ill husband. When Nora, forged her father’s signature he had passed away shortly without her present. As a women in her era, she had no power or authority to borrow money without a male guarantor’s consent. Nora spends her days saving money and taking on small jobs for the repayments for her loan, with interest. In doing so, she felt…

Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, introduces a 19th-century housewife, Nora Helmer, whose husband imposes strict rules upon her in order to maintain a patriarchal way of life. Torvald Helmer’s seemingly unnecessary rules restrict Nora from acting according to her own desires and instead force her to yield to his requests. She alludes to how children exercise complete control over their play dolls by describing her role in the marriage as Torvald’s doll-wife. Throughout the play, Nora commits…

In the play “A Doll’s House” the playwright Isben uses grammar and framing to depict a very possible sounding realty about how someone could be groomed to think they shouldn’t say their opinion and how the use of pet names could change a relationship and how you can see the person’s realization about what's happening in their life In the opening part of the play it’s shown that Nora and the Maid are preparing and cleaning while Torvald is alone in his study and after she’s preparing and hiding…

Henrik Ibsen’s most famous play, A Doll’s House (also translated as A Doll House from its original Norwegian form) is one of the most controversial plays of its time as it challenges the marriage norms of the late nineteenth-century. The play dramatizes the growth of Nora Helmer from a “trophy wife” to an independent woman who sets out to find herself –an instance that rarely occurred in nineteenth-century Europe. The play delves into Torvald and Nora’s marriage, which, nowadays, would be…

Throughout history, women have been expected to fit into a cookie cutter mold designed by men. It should come as no surprise that in Ibsen's "A Doll's House" it is no different. While reading the story of Nora, Torvald's wife, it is obvious that she is expected to act, dress, and even dance a certain way. There are many examples of symbolism and metaphors throughout this play. The symbolism in the name of the play, the Christmas tree, her costume and dance, and even in the news of their dear…

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen was written in 1876s, but we still use some of the values of life that they used back then. Life is different for everyone and it is different from back then, but many are making the same decisions as the ones before. Decisions such as in marriage, relationships, money, or work. One may or not make the same choices as back then, but they look are looked back upon on. Today is different and we don’t have the same standards or rules as them, but the same results…