Category: A Doll’s House

  • A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen: A Play Review

    A Doll’s House is a play by Henrik Ibsen about a married woman Nora Helmer. This piece of art tells a story about morality, money, women, and their worth. Like many other plays, this work should not be perceived entirely literally because it is filled with different symbols. The symbols like the Neapolitan costume, Tarantella,…

  • Theme and Conflict in “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen

    Introduction Henrik Ibsen was one of the major writers of drama in the 19th Century (Cummings, 2003). One of his works was ‘A Doll’s House’, in 1879 (“Key Facts”, 2009). It shows the “dirty little secrets about the middle-class values of Norwegians and other Europeans”. In this play, the reader can see how the primary…

  • Marriage in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Play

    A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is an interesting play that considers a variety of themes, including morality, law, social standing, and gender equality. However, the central theme of the play – and the one reflected in its name – is marriage. Torvald and Nora appear to be a happy couple at first, but this…

  • Character Analysis of Nora Helmer in Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”

    Henrik Ibsen left a rich literary legacy, including several dramatic works that deal with contemporary issues and seem pretty popular. The issues that he raises in his works are timeless. Worth reading and appreciating. Many stories in Ibsen’s theatrical works are intertwined, which ultimately leads to the disclosure of the internal conflict of the story.…

  • The Role of Women in A Doll’s House

    The play A Doll’s House was written in 1879 by Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian writer born in 1828. It spread to the rest of Europe during the revolution period and sparked off a controversy because of his portrayal of women through the character Nora. The thesis of this essay is that women, just like men,…

  • Nora as a Feminist Representation (from “A Doll’s House” by Ibsen)

    The central character in A Doll’s House, written by Ibsen, is Nora. She lives with her husband and her three children. She happened to take a loan with the forged signature of her father, which was kept very secret from her husband. With this forgery as the central plot, Ibsen exposes the hollowness of her…

  • Historical Context of A Doll’s House

    Henrik Ibsen lived during the 19th century, having been born in the early 1800s and dying in the first years of the new millennium. Women in this period lived very different lives from women today. However, it was during this period that women began to question their place in society. This was because more and…

  • Symbolism in A Doll’s House

    A Doll’s House is one of the many plays written by a Norwegian playwright and theatre director Henrik Johan Ibsen. Now Ibsen is often referred to as one of the most influential writers of his time and even as “a father of realism”. In this work, the plot revolves around a family, Nora and Torvald…

  • Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: Critical Analysis

    Table of Contents Introduction Plot Marriage as the form of social contract Conclusion Bibliography Introduction Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll House” is now being commonly referred to as one of the finest examples of feminist literature of 19th century. The theme of women’s liberation can be found throughout play’s entirety, even though this theme is…

  • Nora in A Doll’s House: Character Analysis

    The literary heritage of Henrik Ibsen counts lots of dramatic works, which appear to be very popular and bringing up the problems of today. Actually, the matters, brought up within his works are eternal. So, the books are really worth reading and analyzing. In Ibsen’s dramatic writings the several storylines are interlaced to finally bring…