populace. All were expected to adhere to their designated societal role – men the workers, women the caregivers. In A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen probes the problems of the roles assigned to women in a male-oriented society. For women, their sharply defined roles did not allow for individuality, forcing them to sacrifice their identity in order to fit into society. A Doll’s House assess the dichotomy between who women are and who women are expected to be. Ibsen’s characters serve as a reflection…
Nora Helmer’s Childlike Behavior In Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer ends up falling into blackmail by trying to save her husband’s life. Nora fails to pay back a loan that made it possible to keep her husband alive. Throughout the play, Nora has to deal with these decisions by herself. Nora Helmer is considered to be childish, not only from the way she handles the difficulties that face her, but also the way she handles herself in her own household. The environment that…
Juliet’s evolvement of independence Similar to a parasite, Juliet, the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a character who is very dependent and doesn’t formulate her own opinion. So, throughout the course of the story, Juliet develops her own thoughts and continuously becomes more independent according to the experiences she faces, consisting of disobeying her parents, falling deeply in love with Romeo and finally accomplishing her…
“O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.” With his allegorical writing style, Dante Alighieri revolutionized literature in the renaissance period with masterpieces such as Dante’s Inferno. Dante Alighieri was born on May 21, 1265 in Florence, Italy. He was born to a wealthier family and had a good education as he learn poetry, philosophy, and many other literature skills he used in his writing. From the outside, his life looked perfect though his mother…
Great Expectations is solely about Pip and his expectations over time and for the reader to be able to understand how and why his expectations change, Dickens purposely has Pip describe his life as a child, adolescent and mild aged man. The purpose of Dickens using a bildungsroman is to have Pip grow from a young boy who has many fears and expectations into a man who can then reflect on his mistakes and his life as a whole. One of the first scenes of the novel begins with Pip running into…
Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ went into production in December 1879 and was a triumph in Scandinavia and Germany. It did not garner the same praise in Europe as the London productions (1889) were criticised, the subject matter was interpreted as offensive and the representation of women was viewed as harmful (Worrall). This final interaction between Nora and Torvald is crucial as it is the powerful denouement. The analysis of this scene will encompass discussions of the elements of…
Henrik Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House, explores common situations that women faced in the Victorian Era. Ibsen wrote and established his play in the Victorian time of history, when women struggled against the world which viewed females as inferior to men and limited as to what they can do. Males were dominating and highly respected during this era. On the contrary, females were expected to put men on a pedestal and had no other option but to live up to societal expectations to men. Three female…
The Renaissance lasted from the 14th to the 17th century (Frey 315). This period is known for its flourishing art, philosophy, and literature. During this time, there was a growing class of rich merchants who spent large amounts of money patronizing artists, the most famous of which are the Medici (Frey 315). Events like the Great Schism and the Reformation weakened the Catholic Church (Jensen 193) which had been the center of life in the Medieval era (Frey 31). The Medici Family had more…
lives in a general public where the male abuses the female and diminishes to a minor doll or toy. Nora Helmer is that doll living in her fake doll house, which strengthens the delicate thought of a steady family living under a patriarchal and conventional rooftop. One can contend that Nora Helmer and the other female figures depicted in A Doll's House are the best models of the "second sex". Aristotle likewise said," The female is a female by ethicalness of a certain absence of characteristics.…
the Bertram House and the Tubac House. These two buildings are both a house typology however they represent this same typology in varying ways – some ways similar others vastly different. These differences have come about due to many influences such as style, lighting, form,…