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Summary: When Nora slams the door, she is just running away...
Review: Nora---everyone praises her as this great feminist...she's immature! You don't just run away from your problems like that. She had three kids, a house, and a husband. She had responsibilites. It is her own problem if she has discovered that her marriage isn't all that- but the fact is, she created three children who deserve a mother to support them and help raise them. She feels as though she is being treated like a child- well, its not exactly an adult thing to do to abandon all of your responsibilities. If there is one thing my parents have taught me, it is "finish something you start." Nora Helmer sickens me and all those who glorify her irresponsible actions should take a second look at their priorities.
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Summary: A Student's View
Review: After having read the play in World Literature, I find it quite intresting. This is mainly due to the Womens Liberation view expressed by Henrik Ibsen. It was quite strong in the fact that, Nora starts of like a trained puppy dog and turns into a powerful lion. Wow....what a change. The play allows us, to see what life was like before womens liberation and compare it with life today. Have we changed? I believe so, for recent times show strong women in powerful positions.
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Summary: Finally...A Strong Female Character!
Review: Recently, in my AP English class, I read A Doll's House by Isben. This play portrayed Nora as a strong, female character. Honestly, it's about time! Other plays our class has read, such as Macbeth and Hamlet by Shakespeare, have portrayed women as weak characters who seem to always kill themselves or die when the going gets tough! Nora, on the other hand, was quite different. She let her husband Torvald at first treat her like a child; making him seem like he had all the power. Later, she finally stands up for herself, and decides that she doesn't need a man in her life, so she leaves Torvald. Wow..a non-conformist! During this time, most women's roles were to live and depend on their husbands for everything, but not Nora. She wanted to be that nasty little "i" word...independent! I gave this play five stars because Nora was a great influence. After reading Macbeth and Hamlet, I felt a little hopeless about women characters in plays, but Nora changed all that! She showed that all women are not just weak puppets, rather they have the potential to be independent from men, even though at times it may not seem like it. If I could meet Nora in real life, all I would say to her is: "You go girl!" Hey men, you have to admit, isn't it about time we ladies get some respect?
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Summary: in one word: independence
Review: an excellent story of female liberation over male condecendence and lethargy
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Summary: Misleading Approach To Femminism
Review: Absolutely no woman who is disrespectful to her husband and children deserve any kind of positive attention. Ibsen wrote about a less than perfect wife who deserved nothing else but a less than perfect life.
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Summary: Good
Review: I read Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" this afternoon in one sitting, and although it was quite well-written and entertaining, I couldn't help but feel it was a bit boring and drawn out. I just couldn't help but keep counting how many pages were left until the end. It was very good, but it could be improved upon, if you ask me.
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Summary: A story that was ahead of its time.
Review: Having first read this play in college, I must say that I was captivated by its characters and writing style. Nora was truly a character who was ahead of her time and Ibsen is a wonderful writer. When Nora finally voiced herself to her husband, I felt the same liberation she was fighting for. I don't think that there is an Ibsen play that I have not read, but none are as inspirational as A Dolls House. Anyone who hasn't read it is missing out on a great work of literature.
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Summary: A Portrait of Marriage in Ibsen's A Doll's House
Review: The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen subjects his writing to the intricacies of marriage time and time again. He seems to have an omniscient power and ability to observe the sacrament itself, along with the fictional characters whom he creates to engage in these marital affairs. Such is the case with his classic drama, A Doll's House. The play raises questions about female self-sacrifice in a male-dominated world. Nora is a "wife and child" to Torvald Helmer, and nothing more. She is his doll, a plaything on display to the world, of little intellectual value and even less utility in his life. Thus it is logical for Helmer to act so shockingly upon his discovery that Nora has managed financial affairs (typically a family responsibility reserved for the patriarch) without so much as his consent or knowledge. What, then, is the play saying about women by allowing Nora to act alone and independently, all the while allowing her to achieve little success in doing so? Such an apparent doubt by the playwright of the abilities of women is quickly redeemed by Nora's sudden mental fruition, as though she, in the course of a day or so, accomplishes the amount of growing up to which most persons devote years and years. She has developed the intuition and motivation to leave behind everything she has lived for during she and Helmer's eight years of marriage in exchange for an independent life and the much-sought virtue of independent thought. Nora suddenly wishes to be alone in the world, responsible for only her own well-being and success or failure. She is breaking free of her crutches (Helmer, her deceased father, the ill-obtained finances from Krogstad) and is now appetent to walk tall and proud. Through the marital madness of Helmer and Nora, Ibsen is questioning the roles of both husband and wife, and what happens when one person dominates such a relationship in a manner that is demeaning to the other, regardless of whether such degradation is carried out in a conscious, intended frame of mind. Ibsen is truly a master playwright, and his play A Doll's House is truly a masterpiece.
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Summary: Ibsen's best, most unsettling work.
Review: If Nora, heroine of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is a woman who becomes emancipated despite every intention and because of her husband's cowardice, then Hedda Gabbler is Nora's mad sister. Hedda is a woman unsuited to marriage both by nature and upbringing, yet she has made a marriage for herself with a decent man who seems inclined to allow her to live as she chooses. Hedda is not precisely a wild animal, nor is she a domestic one, but something in between; a creature in a cage of her own devising, content to dream of the jungle but not to live or even visit there. She's being courted by an old friend, Judge Brack, whose well-manicured reputation hides a libertine's nature., and though Hedda enjoys his wit, charm and worldly wisdom, she also secretly fears him because she has no control over him. The thing which sustains her in this middle-class cage is a vision of another self in the person of Eilert Lovborg, who has, she believes, lived the dream of the Blakeian journey for them both. But at the beginning of the play, Hedda discovers that Eilert is back in their town, and that he's been redeemed by the love of Thea Elvstead. Lovborg is a weak man, and, bending to Thea's sedate, middle-class vision of him, as he once did to Hedda's image of him as Dionysus, with vine leaves in his hair, he has become a sober, decent schoolmaster.
It's left to a jealous and discontented Hedda to plot his immolation. But again, he proves a disappointment to her, turning the grand gesture she had planned into something sordid and mundane, and, incidentally, giving Brack power over her. Finally, trapped by both Brack and her own body, and by the social constraints she loathes, Hedda is forced into becoming her own agent of change just as Nora is in "A Doll's House."
"Hedda Gabbler" is possibly Ibsen's most powerful play, certainly the most unsettling, even when it's approached on paper, rather than in a staged version; well worth the effort, despite what might be conside
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Summary: An intriguing 3-act play!
Review: Major playwrite, Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, was born in 1828 and wrote Doll House in 1879. It was performed in London 1889 and Paris 1894, Ibsen died in 1906.
The twisting and advancing plot revolves around several themes, illusion in marriage, conflict with society, feminism, wealth, betrayal, family, and intrigue.
The dramatic play is rich in symbolism, but the most profound is the title, A Doll House, which exemplifies the nature of the relationship that Nora and her husband Torvald have long since demonstrated; she is his little doll.
Torvald portrays the "man" in control of finances and the home; he conducts his life the way society dictates. Nora is the sweet submissive wife who plays along with her husband dominant role, just as was the relationship with her father. Torvald 's endearments of Nora are belittling, "little squirrel", little spendthrift, little lark."
But their illusional marriage takes a turn, Through a past incident for the love of her husband, Nora's secret is about to be divulged. Through that experience she no longer functions in submissive role and makes a grand stand. During this, Torvald is driven to a wimpering soul.
The story is in three acts and each act reveals different character attitudes and Nora's fight and progression. The interesting story culminates with a dramatic twist.....MzRizz
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