The Christmas Season, the Christmas Tree, and the New Year in a Doll's House, a Play by Henrik Ibsen
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Issues of gender roles became apparent in the 20th Century and continue to escalate today. Anthropologists, sociologists, and ... psychologists give different suggestions to solve women’s plight. One of the most shocking works in the 19th Century was Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’. Ibsen surprised many by giving his honest opinion regarding the issue. But today, the subject of gender stereotypes doesn’t seem to surprise people. The outline of A Doll’s House essay can touch on a wide spectrum of social issues besides the problems that women go through. To get more ideas, read as many samples of essays on A Doll’s House as possible. If you choose to talk about corruption, make sure that your ideas remain coherent throughout the paper, from the introduction to the conclusion.
Date:
December 21, 1879
Author:
Henrik Ibsen
Type:
Play
Genre
Naturalistic / Realistic Problem Play, Modern Tragedy
Original Language
Norwegian, Danish
Characters
Nora, Torvald Helmer, Krogstad, Mrs. Linde, Dr. Rank, Children, Anne-Marie, Helene
Setting
The home of the Helmer family in an unspecified Norwegian town or city, circa 1879
Subject
The awakening of a middle-class wife and mother.
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The Inner Revolution of Nora
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A Doll’s House
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When Nora Helmer slammed the door shut on her doll’s house in 1879, her message sent shockwaves around the world that persist to this day. “I must stand quite alone,” Nora declares, “if I am to understand myself and everything about me” (Ibsen 64). After...
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Henrik Ibsen, Norway
Ibsen’s a Doll’s House and Therese Raquin: Critique of Christian Morality
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A Doll’s House
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Both Ibsen and Zola were firm believers in portraying their characters and works from a realistic perspective. Zola founded the naturalist movement in fiction and shared the same general perspective on society as Ibsen, who was the first of a new generation of naturalistic modern...
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19th century, 19th-century theatre, Antagonist, Catholic Church, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas tree, Émile Zola, Faith
"A Doll’s House" by Henrik Ibsen
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A Doll’s House
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In A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, Henrik consider traditional aspect of men and women back on the early age. In the play “A Doll’s House,” Nora represent the conventional feminine basic of the age. She seems defenseless and purview herself through patriarchal assumption, which...
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Realism and Feminism in a Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
view essay exampleAt first glance, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House seems to allude to feminism, speaking of the differences in the roles of men and women. The surges in feminism and the subjective perception of readers resulted in many people drawing feminist motifs from the text as they...
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Feminist movements, Husband, Marriage, Wife
Analysis of Torvald Helmer Character
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A Doll’s House
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A predicatable response to reading Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House might be a distaste for Nora’s feeble-minded obsession with money, possessions, and culture through the first two acts that is then, suddenly and unexpectedly, reversed as those harsh opinions fall upon her dumbfounded husband as...
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Dissociative identity disorder, Doris Lessing, Gender role, Henrik Ibsen, Human rights, Norway, The Reader
Shifting Gender Roles in Doll's House
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A Doll’s House
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The play A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, offers a critique of the superficial marriage between Nora and Torvald Helmer. Written in 1879, the play describes the problems which ensue after Nora secretly and illegally takes out a loan from a local bank in order...
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175, Femininity, Feminism, Gender, Gender identity, Gender role, Gender studies, Henrik Ibsen, Man
Ibsen's Perspective on Freedom and Social Morals
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A Doll’s House
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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 respectability and moral code, which when defied caused the...
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19th century, Civil liberties, Control, Henrik Ibsen, Husband, Idea, Marriage, Norway, Play
The Women Portrayed in Ibsen's Works
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A Doll’s House
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‘Ibsen’s knowledge of humanity is nowhere more obvious than in his portrayal of women’ (Joyce). Discuss and illustrate: In his often quoted ‘Notes for a Modern Society’ Ibsen stated that, ‘in practical life, woman is judged by masculine law, as though she weren’t a woman...
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Broadway plays, Glenda Jackson, Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen, Husband, Marriage, Mrs. Fiske, Wife, Woman
The Themes of Betrayal and Forgiveness in Paradise Lost by John Milton and a Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
view essay exampleThe theme of betrayal can be found at the heart of both Milton’s Paradise Lost and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House yet interestingly, the answer to whether these betrayals deserve to be forgiven has changed through time. Where Milton and Ibsen’s contemporary audiences have been shown...
Difference Between Female and Male Spaces on and Off the Stage
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A Doll’s House
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In “Space and Reference in Drama,” Michael Issacharoff argues that diegetic space is offstage space and mimetic space is onstage space. Issacharoff argues that “dramatic tension is often contingent on the antinomy between visible space represented and invisible space described” (Issacharoff 211). This dramatic tension...
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Henrik Ibsen, Norway, Semiotics
A Doll’s House: Jungian Analysis
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A Doll’s House
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In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the path to self-realization and transformation is depicted by the main character, Nora Helmer. She is a woman constrained by both her husband’s domineering ways as well as her own. From a Jungian perspective, Nora’s lack of a developed contrasexual...
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Carl Jung, Henrik Ibsen, Norway
Review of the Play, a Doll's House
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A Critical Analysis of A Doll’s House In the late 1800’s rigid gender roles set the character of both men and women. In a male dominant society, Men were expected to be educated and have a job. Women’s roles in society were to take care...
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Gender, Gender role, Henrik Ibsen, Heteronormativity, James Joyce, Norway, Prince, Sociology, Transgender
Doll’s House and Look Back in Anger: Social Criticism
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The term “social criticism” refers to a type of condemnation that reveals the reasons for malicious conditions in a society which is considered deeply flawed. Indeed, both Ibsen and Osborne, in their respective plays A Doll’s House and Look Back in Anger, use theater as...
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Angry young men, Henrik Ibsen, Human, John Osborne, Kitchen sink realism, Look Back in Anger, Metaphor, Norway, Social realism
Individual Against Society in a Doll’s House and Porphyria’s Lover
view essay exampleBrowning’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 of an idealistic marriage within a social hierarchy through his female protagonist, Nora. Both...
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19th century, Dramatic Lyrics, Dramatic monologue, Duke, Feminism, Fra Lippo Lippi, Gender, Gender role, Gender studies, Hierarchy
Comparing the Similarities and Differences in the Settings, Symbols, and Characters in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin and a Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
view essay exampleThe short story titled Sonny’s Blues written by James Baldwin, and the play A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen, have many similarities and differences when it comes to settings, symbols, and characters. Although they may seem like two completely different works, they have a...
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American films, Anton Chekhov, Discrimination, English-language films, Happiness, Henrik Ibsen, Norway, Protagonist, Racism
Analysis of Ibsen’s a Doll’s House from Feminist and Humanist Perspective
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A Doll’s House
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Henrik Ibsen’s well known play, A Doll’s House, has long been considered a predominantly feminist work. The play focuses on the seemingly happy Helmers, Nora and Torvald, who appear to have an ideal life. Nora is charming, sweet, and stunningly beautiful, and Torvald is a...
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Dolls, Feminism, Feminist theory, Gender, Henrik Ibsen, Human rights, Norway, Play, Søren Kierkegaard
A Comparison of Happiness and Power in "Paradise Lost" and "A Doll's House"
view essay exampleHappiness is a luxury only the powerful can afford. In light of this view compare representations of happiness and power in Paradise Lost and A Doll’s House. In both Paradise Lost and A Doll’s House, to say only those in power truly experience the luxury...
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Adam, Adam and Eve, Book of Genesis, Eudaimonia, Eve, Family, Feminism, Garden of Eden, Gender, Gender role
"A Doll’s House" and "Ghosts": Comparison of Female Roles
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The role of women has changed significantly throughout history, driven in part by women who took risks in setting examples for others to follow. During the Victorian era, women were beginning to take a stand for their rights.¹ Even as they struggled with their expected...
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19th century, Family, Gender, Gender role, Henrik Ibsen, Husband, James Joyce, Marriage, Norway
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