Category: A Doll’s House

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself -Simone de Beauvoir (Good Reads). In the play, A Dolls House by Hendrik Ibsen, main character Nora seems to have felt exactly this…

The play, A Dolls House, by Henrik Isben, took place during the Victorian era. It was dedicated to the social standards of both men and women. The women are portrayed as inferior to men and will show the sacrifice of themselves. This essay is going to focus on the ways that women were perceived as…

Both characters in To Kill a Mockingbird and A Doll’s House are challenged with dilemmas that they eventually learn a valuable life lesson from. In Lee’s novel moral lessons are presented in a seemingly effortless style with the character Atticus Finch ,a highly praised lawyer, showing both social and personal morality such as in the…

Henrik Ibsen mainly expresses the theme of Power in his novel: A Dolls House. This novel was written in the 19th century, and the story was set in Norway. The purpose of choosing this setting is a womens place in society. Men were the ones who have the power and not the wives. Henrik Ibsen…

Historically speaking men and women had separate spheres, which defined the natural characteristics of the two sexes. These characteristics that women are expected to be obedient, powerlessness, submissive, dependent and domesticated created a natural hierarchy that grew increasingly through marriage. In the Victorian Era, a proper woman is perfectly described by the term Angel in…

A Dolls House, written by Henrik Ibsen, demonstrates the repressed life of women in the 19th century. Nora faced many challenges throughout the play that made her come to terms with the awful life she had been living ever since she was a child. In order to fix the problem, Nora decided to leave her…

A woman’s place in society has always been mapped out for her before birth. Women born in a patriarchal society of the late 1800s must endure the discrimination brought against them in a male-dominated time. In those times a wife and mother were regarded as women’s most important occupations. During the period women normally had…

Intersectionality was introduced by black feminist scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989.Intersectionality has been a big part of society, it has affected different part of society causing for different critical lenses. Intersectionality is the interconnected idea of social arrangements, for example, race, class, and sexual orientation as they apply to a given individual or gathering,…

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen highlights on the ‘moral laws’ of the two individuals in the overall population during this time. Strikingly, Ibsen made the play in the nineteenth century, a period overpowered by sexual direction irregularity whereby women were dynamically presented to moment employments in the overall population (Ghafourinia, Fatemeh and Jamili, Leila).…

The play A Dolls House written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879 is one of the first plays featuring feminism, which contributed to the spread of feminism. Using a visual form of text made it accessible, where feminist ideas could be spread thoroughly in the society. The play is an important work in terms of understanding…