Henrik Ibsen

Mathlide Loisel, who was born on the opposite side of the economic spectrum that she believes she should have been. Madame Loisel was never comfortable with who she was. “The Diamond Necklace” is a short story written in 1884 by a French writer Guy de Maupassant. The short but interesting story is about a “pretty and charming” young lady, Mathlide might have been gorgeous but she was still full of greed and stubbornness. Mathlide was never comfortable with who she really was. She always…

“A woman is never looking upon as an independent person since she has constantly been assigned a secondary and comparative position. Man can consider of himself devoid of woman. She cannot think of herself without man and she is simply what man decrees” (Beauvoir 534). Similar to most post modernist literary texts, Home is satirical, vague and open-ended. The novel is in a full circle and assumes post modernist outlook in its open ending though Manju Kapur has shown Nisha arriving at a crucial…

At some point, everyone has felt like they were being forced to conform to society. Through the actions of the main characters, both William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” display various ways in which the pressures of society can alter one’s perception of reality. The women portrayed in these stories have been forced into isolation by the ones they love most. In addition, all of their actions are faced with continuous, harsh judgment. The struggle…

Many parents or adults try to teach or guide loved ones out of being caring, although, this can cause people to unknowingly discourage or hurt those they are trying to help. In “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson, Miss Strangeworth tries to eliminate all the evil within her town but betrays her town by being the cause of the evil. In “The Fall of a City” by Alden Nowlan, Teddy’s Uncle makes fun of Teddy for using his imagination by playing with paper dolls. Miss Strangeworth and Teddy’s…

break this bondage she fails to do so because they have to reside in within the society. Mohan expects from Jaya that she also should be silenced and suppressed like his mother. But when she adopts the strategy of aloofness and silence, he burst out at this behaviour of Jaya. The constant and repeated references to ‘silence’ in the novel show that not only in the case of Jaya but also for others silence had been a protest as well as a strategy for survival. For example – “As we were silent’…

Throughout ‘A dolls house’ Ibsen makes extensive use of symbolism. A variety of symbols/ He uses locks and doors, the tarentella dance and the christmas tree are used to/to establish the key themes of oppression and claustrophobia in the play. The symbols are representative of Nora's lack of freedom in her home and Torvalds controlling nature.Ibsen successfully challenges traditional 19th centuary Norwegian viewpoints concerning the position of women pushing the idea that a husband and wife…

Doll’s House Literary Analysis The play Doll’s House is not childish as it sounds; it reflects the reality of what oppression against women looked like in past. Nora, the play’s protagonist, struggles with situation where she unknowingly broke the law in order to aid her husband in ill by asking for money from other man; she tries to escape from her guilt by ensuring that Krogstad keeps his position in her husband’s bank, then tried to keep husband from reading the letter of their transaction,…

and her Friends (1978) is regarded as one of Maria Fornes's well-known works. It is a feminist play. According Ann M. Shanahan, ''[L]ike A Doll's House, Fefu is significant in the development of feminist theatre. [... however,] unlike the realism of Ibsen, Fefu is set at a slight historical remove from its time of writing'' (Sept. 2013, 134). In Fefu, Fornes foregrounds women whereas she sets men off stage; she sets them as shadow or background. Despite the fact that she removes male presence…

Naturalistic Play Synopses The Father (W: 1887; P: 1887) Strindberg, August (1849-1912) Translated by Edith and Warner Oland 1912 Source- Strindberg, August. The Father. Edited by Edmund R Brown. Translated by Edith Oland and Warner Oland, Boston International Packet Library, 1912. Characters- Eight cast members total. Three women, four men, and the orderly’s gender is never specified. A Captain of Cavalry Laura- his wife Bertha- their daughter Doctor Östermark The Pastor The Nurse…

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…