A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen's play 'A Doll's House' has caused controversy since it's first production in 1879 as it portrays 19th century society as an oppressive influence on the individual and their personal freedom. Victorian society emphasized Bourgeois...

A Doll’s House written by Henry Ibsen, a play set in the 1870’s in Norway and Blood Relations written by Sharon Pollock, a play set in the 1890’s in America both have a strong female lead who are faced with situations uncommon today. The...

Moliere’s The School for Wives and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House were written centuries apart, but both have plots that feature women in less-than-ideal situations that defy social norms in order to get out of it. School for Wives is a comedy, and A Doll...

Browning’s dramatic monologues Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess critique Victorian society’s restrictive patriarchal values which suppressed a female’s endeavors for individualism. Meanwhile, Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House condemns the pretense...

In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, Christian Linden (or Linde) must give up her own life to provide for her mother and younger brothers, and finds herself a newfound freedom once widowed. However, Ms.Linden is unhappy having no family to work...

In the social and political protest writing Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ and Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’ the desired impact upon the audience is arguably to reveal to them a truth about society or about a particular situation, to inspire empathy and...

Nora’s Action as Act of Feminism

In the play A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen portrays both the traditional roles of both males and females in the 19th Century. The character Nora in the play embodies the traditional female standard of the era, as she...

The works of Anton Chekov, Henrik Ibsen, and Moliere are quite distinct from one another, each author being primarily concerned with critiquing the specific society of his own country at the time in which he lived. Their plays, however, share many...

In “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, Krogstad is primarily presented as a an antagonist who brings hardship and blackmails Nora. However, Ibsen’s naturalistic style recognises the complexities of characters and allows the audience to view the...

In both The Merchant’s Tale and A Doll’s House, sexual relationships are symbolic of power imbalances, the exploitation of others, and the strenuous relationship between men and women in societies continually determined by gender relations. Sexual...

Ibsen’s use of the symbol of the Tarantella dance is instrumental in demonstrating the changing dynamics and progression of Nora and Torvald’s marriage. The intensely dramatic and passionately performed Tarantella dance depicts a different side of...

Rossetti, labelled the “queen of the pre-Raphaelite school”, and Ibsen, a great perpetrator of the Realism movement, were separated by artistic styles in writing, but shared a time period and similar social climates. Therefore, the ways in which...

A Doll’s House embodies Ibsen’s criticism of social constructs on marriage and female roles nurtured by the patriarchal society. Through his friend Laura Kieler who experienced hardships in her marriage from his overbearing husband, Ibsen was...

In discussions of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, one major controversial issue has been the representation of women. This issue has been debated by many critics in light of gender and feminist theories, in an attempt to decipher Nora’s subversion of...

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House follows Nora Helmer’s stifled life within the confines of society’s patriarchal edifice and her own household. The depiction of Nora, her childhood friend Christine Linde, and the nurse Anne within this structure is...

Loureen, the protagonist of Lynn Nottage’s play, “POOF!”, and Nora, the main character of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House”, are both abused by their husbands. While Nora’s abuse is primarily emotional and Loureen’s is physical, their abuse led them...

From the beginning of the mankind, people have faced with so many problems. It seems that just surviving and sleeping with a full stomach are not the main problems of developed civilizations since the first formations of societies. ‘Surviving in a...

In such a popular and classic play as Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, it can be easy to overlook the work’s many naturalistic elements strewn throughout the story. Emile Zola’s late 19th century essay describes naturalism in the context of theatre...