Essays on Plays

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Nora Regaining Her Independence

2 pages / 903 words

The opening of the play ‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen provides the audience with an introduction to the protagonist Nora and an insight into the nature of her marriage with Torvald. Even from this early point in the play Ibsen explores the constitution of...

A Doll’s House

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Cinderella and a Doll’s House: Comparing The Role of Dress

4 pages / 1990 words

The donning of her [dancing] dress has brought about the turning point of her life. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay -Barbara Fass Leavy Dress and outward...

A Doll’s House Cinderella

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Shifting Gender Roles in a Doll's House

6 pages / 2907 words

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...

A Doll’s House

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Doll’s House and Look Back in Anger: Social Criticism

4 pages / 1791 words

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...

A Doll’s House

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Ibsen’s a Doll’s House and Therese Raquin: Critique of Christian Morality

4 pages / 1652 words

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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Mimetig and Diegetic Space in a Doll's House

3 pages / 1241 words

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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Christina's Character Motivation and Struggles in a Doll's House

2 pages / 850 words

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 for and struggles...

A Doll’s House

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New Theatrical Tradition in a Doll's House

2 pages / 772 words

In A Doll’s House by Ibsen, the author takes the preconditions and viewer expectations of the play format established by earlier writers and uses them to shock his audience rather than lull them into oblivion with simple entertainment. Ibsen inherits these preconditions and expectations from...

A Doll’s House

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"A Doll’s House" and "Ghosts": Comparison of Female Roles

3 pages / 1433 words

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...

A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen

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Ibsen's Perspective on Freedom and Social Morals in a Doll's House

3 pages / 1162 words

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...

A Doll’s House

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Marriage and Morality in a Doll's House

2 pages / 972 words

In his play ‘A Doll’s House’ Henrik Ibsen provides the audience with an insight into life in 19th Century Norway and the injustices that existed in society at the time. Throughout the narrative Ibsen uses the Nora and Torvald’s relationship as a vehicle through which...

A Doll’s House

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Analysis of Women Portrayed in Ibsen's Works

4 pages / 1721 words

‘Ibsen’s knowledge of humanity is nowhere more obvious than in his portrayal of women’ (Joyce). Discuss and illustrate: Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay In his often...

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A Doll’s House: Jungian Analysis

4 pages / 1924 words

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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Analysis of Humanism and Feminism in a Doll’s House

3 pages / 1537 words

Henrik Ibsen’s renowned play, A Doll’s House, is widely recognized as a feminist work. The play delves into the seemingly perfect life of the Helmers, Nora and Torvald. Nora is beautiful, charming, and sweet, and Torvald is a successful and wealthy banker. The exploration of...

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The Inner Revolution of Nora in a Doll's House

5 pages / 2451 words

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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Analysis of Torvald Helmer Character in a Doll's House

3 pages / 1219 words

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...

A Doll’s House

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The Dynamics Between Appearance and Reality in a Doll's House

3 pages / 1307 words

“A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, in many ways, addresses the divide between the concept of work itself and the perceptions of one’s own work. In reality, a person’s idea of work can differ from the kind of work actually done. When people think of...

A Doll’s House

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How Samuel Beckett Depicts Memory in Waiting for Godot

2 pages / 1219 words

Throughout Waiting for Godot, Beckett uses memory as a means to anchor the isolated setting in the context of some kind of surrounding world, frequently undermining this ‘anchor’ by presenting the past, and the protagonists’ recollections of it, as being fragmented and unclear, much like...

Waiting For Godot

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Vladimir and Estragon in "Waiting for Godot"

8 pages / 3875 words

“We can always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?”[1] Samuel Beckett’s character Estragon asks his friend Vladimir in Beckett’s tragicomedy, Waiting for Godot. This postmodernist play has provoked an enormous amount of analysis, commentary, and criticism since its first performance...

Waiting For Godot