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Analysis Of A Doll's House By Hendrick Ibsen

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Doll’s House is a play written by Hendrick Ibsen in 1879. Hendrick Ibsen was a Norwegian writer born in 1828. He is renowned for his plays that often debated social issues and contained philosophical and psychological elements. The play is about Nora and her relationship with her husband Torvald. The play talked about women’s rights and gender inequality and as a result was considered to be very controversial for its time. The play is widely considered to be earliest feminist plays and a timeless classic. It explored the double standards of society and the flaws of the idea of marriage present in its time. It is said to have shed light upon discrepancies between the roles of man and women and the inequality present between the two genders. These issues have progressed and been improved upon however they are still very much present in our society and many still feel their effects. The relationships in Doll’s House is the key focus for a large …show more content…

Pet names are typically insults disguised as nicknames and can be part of the grooming process. The pet names in Doll’s House stand out vividly and are used constantly by Torvald when he is talking to Nora. Within the first page alone Torvald calls her three different patronising nicknames; spendthrift, squirrel and little lark. Soon after calling her a spendthrift Torvald says “What are little people called that are always wasting money?” to which Nora replies with “spendthrift, I know” implying this is a statement that has been repeated to her multiple times. This weakens victim’s confidence and weakens the chances of them ever leaving their abuser. This is present in 50 shades of Grey when main character is consistently called Miss Steele dismissively despite her wishes to not be referred as that. Her partner also switches to more desired nicknames when they wish her to bend to their

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A Doll’s house is a realistic three act play that focuses on the nineteenth century life in middle class Scandinavian household life, where the wife is expected to be inferior and passive whereas the husband is superior and paternally protective. It was written by Henrik Ibsen. The play criticised the marriage norms that existed in the 19th century. It aroused many controversies as it concludes with Nora, the main protagonists leaving her husband and children in order to discover her identity. It created a lot of controversies and was heavily criticised as it questioned the traditional roles of men and women among Europeans who believed that the covenant of marriage was holy.

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Torvald tells her that Nora has a duty as a mother and a wife but Nora tells him that “she is an individual”, showing that she is finally putting herself on par with Torvald, and no longer allowing Torvald to control her, but instead she is trying to gain independence and liberation from social norms in order to break free from the “Doll’s House.” She tells him that she must leave him, because “for eight years [she’d] been living with a stranger”, emphasising how there was never any proper communication and mutual understanding between them, and hence no proper marriage, as she didn’t actually know what his true character was like up until that night, as she was convinced all along that Torvald would be the man to take everything upon

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