Dollhouse

The Bechdel test a way to analyze Hollywood movies to see if they show a “satisfactory” female presence. The Bechdel test consists of the following criteria: the movie includes at least two women, who have a least one conversation, about something other than a man or men. This seems like a pretty easy test to pass; however, a lot of movies actually don’t pass this test, even today. This test is really important because, in my opinion, seeing equality in things like Hollywood movies might…

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…

Women’s role throughout history roots itself in what she can do for others. She is the gatherer, the wife, and the mother, all these roles share is a single commonality . The fact that, until recent, she was never the provider. Social standards and conditioning forced women into subservient positions. Women were not allowed to provide for themselves, their place was to be the pretty object. They were to be watched and taken care of. A woman could not define herself as an individual, but rather…

Several short stories have criticized the characteristics of the upper class in England; Authors, Oscar Wilde and Katherine Mansfield, have criticized the upper class through their stories. Katherine Mansfield’s stories “The Doll House,” “A Cup of Tea,” and “The Garden Party,” and Oscar Wilde’s story, “Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime,” portray how the upper class tends to be self-centered, untruthful, insensitive, and superficial. The first negative characteristic of the upper class is their…

In Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House”, Ibsen portrays the roles of society and gender inequalities between men and women of the time. While reading the play, the reader has an eye opening view on the inequalities of men and women, and the idea of feminism. The play reveals the relationships, and ideals between both women, and men. The main character Nora Helmer struggles to keep up with the societal gender roles, and be the best wife she can be, to her conservative husband. The play…

A tribute to the housewives of the nineteenth century, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll’s House is more than a fictional tale of a woman establishing her legacy in a male-dominated society. Ibsen’s views extinguish the typical portrayal of women in early-day literature entirely. By providing female readers with a sense of empowerment, esteem, and individuality through the actions and beliefs of his strongest feminine roles, Ibsen has been named one of the greatest contributors to the rise of femininity in…

Society is a hegemony, and we have built gender norms and stereotypes upon ourselves. Gender norms in society start out when we are infants, from the toys are parents choose to allow us to play with. Whether it is playing with legos, or playing with a dollhouse. A few articles that I will be speaking about are Disney’s racism and sexism by Anna Escher, Disney Is NOT Sexist by Susie Kopecky, Wearing Makeup by Sociology of style, etc. We cannot blame society, because we…

Introduction Mahira is fifteen year old girl, the elder of the two children of our family friends, Atta and his wife Mishi. Mahira is a sixth grader and goes to the same school with her younger brother Mehroz who is thirteen year old. Mahira lives at home with her parents and paternal grandmother. Atta, her father, is a professor of Physics at a local community college. Mahira’s mother is a housewife and spends most of her time in doing domestic chores and attending to her children. Our family…

Individuals learn new things about themselves every day. They go through different pressures and actions that help them better understand themselves. In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer was a character who transitioned throughout the play. Nora recognized and learned new things about herself from dealing with many different life changing problems and situations. It took one incident for Nora to learn that throughout her whole life she was never happy. This is a true example of someone…

In Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”, she explains how women are encouraged to behave like a woman solely for the entertainment for men. She explains how “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” in her work which shows that women are constructed by society’s norms which shapes them into a woman. These external processors change her into an ideal doll. Her claim is completely accurate because throughout history and till this day, women have been expected to act a certain way and live up…