Feminist Perspective of A Doll's House Essay

of the play, the tarantella dance and the macaroons mentioned in the play to portray his negative perspective of society during the Victorian Era. Henrik Ibsen uses the title of the play ‘A Doll’s House’ to portray…

A Doll’s House Ibsen’s play The Doll House caused a great amount of controversy due to his views on women and marriage. Critics denounced him for his boundless perspective which marriage should contain. Setting the play in the 1800s, Ibsen represents the main characters, Torvald and Nora, as an ideal couple of the era. Initially, Nora assists in taking care of the house and Torvald brings food to the table. However, because of his representation of Nora becoming a free women, Ibsen received…

confinement of individuals into categories of race, gender, and class. In regard to the divide seen between men and women specifically, the latter has found themselves in a secondary position to the former. Best summarized by Toril Moi in her essay on feminist critique and theory, “man is the universal and woman is the particular; he is the One and she is the Other” (Moi 264). Thus, one’s experiences…

the girl and Barbie through the girl’s interpretation of her Barbie’s looks. In Trinna Frever’s article, she declares, “Cisneros presents the negative gender influence of the dolls through the appearance of swimsuits worn with ‘stilettos’ and the doll’s confinement within a ‘wire stand’” (127). This connects to the sentence in the story where the narrator is describing the dolls, “Red swimsuit, stilettos, pearl earrings, and a wire stand” (558). This exposes the young girls scandalous clothing…