A Doll's House

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…

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…

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…

A Doll’s House is a play that was written by 1879 by Henrik Ibsen, a playwright from Norway. The play has three acts. It mainly focuses on the life of Nora, a housewife who feels frustrated by her position and status in society. She feels like she is a prisoner…

Character transformation is a major theme in the play A Doll’s House. Transformation is always a natural phenomenon at occurs at various stages. These include the growth of an individual, which often occurs naturally, as people grow thus increase in size. However, such are basic types of transformation that may…

Realist plays attempt to present practical solutions to readers by highlighting similar plights to the audience. Henrik Ibsen is a realist playwright whose work focuses on significant revelations of both modern and past societies. One of these revelations that the playwrights explores is the role of women. In, A Doll…

Introduction A feminist interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” will reveal that Nora is endowed with a doll-like existence in her husband’s house, where she lacks an individual identity. She has sacrificed her own individuality in order to conform to Torvald’s expectation. But she gradually perceives this lack…