A Doll's House

Torvald Helmer is a complex character from Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House. He is viewed as a representative of the 19th-century ideals of masculinity, but his behavior throughout the play reveals him to be more complicated than he appears on the surface. Torvald is an ambitious and successful lawyer…

Notably, the 19th century has been recorded as the period of change in history that occurred due to the industrial boom that affected the economic and social structure in the societies. Henrik Ibsen experienced all these alterations and decided to write, highlighting all the disparities that were there in the…

Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ is no doubt a masterpiece, which covers gender disparity in Norwegian society quite extensively. The play portrays the position of women in Norwegian society during the eighteenth century. It gives an account of the controversial issues, equality, private life, love, and divorce that took center stage…

Although on the surface Iago and Krogstad may appear to have similar motivations, there is a world of a difference between these two characters. Iago seems to be driven by hatred, jealousy, racial prejudice, and a natural deviousness; while Krogstad’s actions can arguably be defended on the grounds of self-preservation…

This play is placed in the “second stage” of the career of Henrik Ibsen. It was in this period whereby he made the change from historical and mythical dramas to plays that highlight social problems. As a matter of fact, it was the first among a series that investigated the…

The hypocrisy of ‘Victorian morality’ is a subject of critical analysis in the major literary works of Ibsen. Especially, the notion of moral standards instilled in Victorian males is revealed by Ibsen in a stereotypical manner in his scathing criticism of the traditional roles of men and women in Victorian…

In the play “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen has identified the woes and worries of feminism in the traditional English culture of the past where a woman was considered more of a possession than a living member of a family with emotions and choice. The story explains that even if…

The drama “A Doll’s House” is a depiction of a woman who rises from the ashes of being a mistreated wife to one of superiority over her husband when she leaves him for good to show how much she has coped with his behavior and attitude over the years of…

Realism Realism is the belief or the way to see things as they are in real. It is the manifestation of philosophical realism that beliefs exists as in independent observation of a person and reflect as reality. A person sees things from his own perspective and tries to idealize a…

The playwright Ibsen Henrick weaves the story around a couple; where the wife, Nora, is invaded with a reality that brings her to question her marriage. In order to find answers to the surfaced questions, she sets forth on a journey of setting up a plot for the purpose of…