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Nora's Development in "A Doll's House", 2005.
A consideration of Nora as a developing character in Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper examines the character of Nora as a developing character in Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House". In particular, it examines how Nora deceives both herself and Torvald as she realizes she is more as a person than just a housewife.
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"In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House the character of Nora undergoes a transformation during the play as she develops from a supposedly happy but unaware house wife to a woman who comes to understand her potential as an individual in her own right ."
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Nora in "A Doll?s House", 2006.
A literary analysis of the character Nora in Ibsen's "A Doll's House".
940 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper studies Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", a three-act play which affords the audience an insightful perspective on one woman's epiphany. The paper's analysis focuses on the character of Nora Helmer who, when the story opens, appears to be the prototypical pampered wife. The paper dissects Nora's relationship to her husband, and comments on the changes in that relationship as a metaphor for the transformation of women's role in society. The paper also analyzes several literary techniques used by Ibsen in the play, including the retrospective technique to reveal important incidents from the past as the play progresses. Finally, the paper explores the feminist undertones of the play, and its commentary on the position of women in the late 19th century.
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"One soon learns that Nora is not quite the empty-headed spendthrift she appears. Rather, she has need of money in order to repay a debt owed Nils Krogstad from years past--one incurred in order to save her husband's life, but requiring that she forge her father's name. Her husband, of course, is completely unaware that all this has transpired. When Torvald assumes the bank presidency, Nora's creditor will lose his position there. So Krogstad threatens blackmail in an attempt to convince her to use her influence to save his job. Nora certainly tries, but Torvald is determined to dismiss Krogstad. The desperate man delivers a letter revealing his past association with the woman. After Torvald has read the letter and rejected Nora, Krogstad has a change of heart--at which point, so does Torvald. But it is too late. Nora realizes that her marriage to Torvald has never been a relationship between equals. She has lived with a stranger but cannot bear to continue as his mere toy, a doll in this doll's house. Nora leaves Torvald and her three children."
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Nora in "A Doll's House", 2005.
A study of the character of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House".
1,876 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper deals with Nora Helmer's heroic struggle to free herself from the oppressive domination and control of her husband, Torvald. It portrays Nora's attempt to assert her own identity and independence in the face of what she considers societal and marital imprisonment. It shows the the essence of the story is Nora's journey from an enforced and artificial child-like existence to her own personal declaration of independence in the world.
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"In his play A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen portrays, in a general sense, the oppressed and powerless role of women in a male dominated society. In a more particular sense, Ibsen dramatizes the story of one woman's struggle to change her life in order to achieve a sense-of-self and independent identity in the face of social and personal oppression. For Nora Helmer, this struggle is the first step on a courageous personal quest. For most of the play, Nora is trapped in the traditional position of a woman in society. She is defined by her role as wife and mother. But by the end of the play, Nora undergoes a personal transformation and sets out on a journey of self -discovery. In undertaking this journey, Nora is not only demanding her own independence, in a real sense, but she is also a pioneer, in a symbolic sense, in asserting the rights and dignity of all women in society to be treated as the equal of men."
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"A Doll's House:" Should Nora Have Left?, 2004.
This paper examines Nora's decision to leave her family after feeling betrayed by her husband.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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The paper explores Nora's decision to leave her family after feeling betrayed by her husband from a feminist point of view.
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" A Doll's House is a powerful drama about a woman's need to be not just a wife and a mother but a full human being. As such it has been hailed as a visionary work and Ibsen has become seen as a kind of male precursor of feminism. Written in during a time of revolutionary upheaval in Europe, this play and Ibsen's work in general are also regarded as some of the earliest examples of modernism."
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Krogstad: Noras Foil Character In Ibsens "Doll's House", 2004.
A brief look at how Ibsen uses Krogstad as a foil character in his play.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper presents a brief look at how Henrik Ibsen uses Krogstad as a foil character in order to create more audience sympathy for Nora in his famous play, "The Doll's House".
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"The ultimate goal of drama is believed to be the audience's suspension of disbelief for the brief time that they are watching the play. That said it does not follow that works of drama do not have other purposes as well. They are meant to make the audience think about the world beyond the stage about society and about the minds of individuals. Such is the case with Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Ibsen uses minor characters and subplot ..."
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Henrick Ibsen?s ?A Doll?s House?, 2004.
This paper discusses the relationship of husband and wife, Nora and Torvald, in Henrick Ibsen?s ?A Doll?s House?.
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper explains that, as Henrick Ibsen?s play, ?A Doll?s House?, progresses, the relationship between Nora and Torvald Helmer changes from that of a well-to-do husband and wife with cheerful children who seem to live the happy marriage life. The author points out that, towards the middle of the play, Nora seems to step away from her fantasy life, observing the fact that she is concerned about what her husband thinks of her. The paper relates that, during the third act, Nora finally opens her eyes to realize that her life with Torvald is over; and, as the play ends, she walks out of her "doll's house" into her new world of dependence, leaving Torvald to raise his three children on his own.
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"In the beginning of the play, Nora is a doll in her husband?s eyes. She is a trophy he has won. He wants to keep his trophy pretty, pampered, and kept on a high pedestal. When he talks to his wife, he treats her like a little girl. He feels as if Nora should no nothing about their financial situation or any important issues in the household. It is a man?s job in life to take care of the family. Torvald adores his wife, but treats her like she is not on the same level as him. "Look, Nora, in lots of things, you're still a child. I'm older than you in many ways and I've had a little more experience" (Act 2, pg. 184). He has pet names for her such as skylark, squirrel and featherbrain."
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"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, 2005.
This paper analyzes the character of Nora in Ibsen's "A Doll's House."
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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This paper analyzes the character of Nora in Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" and examines her reasons for abandoning her husband and children at the end of the play. It is an argumentative paper, defending Nora's decision.
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"Ibsen's "A Doll's House" was a very controversial play when it was first written in because of the character Nora and how she abandons her husband and children at the end of the play. Ibsen dealt with the problem of women's rights, not as an activist but as a facet of reality within his play. He wanted to bring the issue to light."
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?A Doll's House?, 2002.
An analysis of the character of Nora in Henrik Ibsen?s ?A Doll's House?.
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper examines Ibsen?s ?A Doll?s House?, the story of Nora Helmer, a woman who has been given a certain role in society and has never had the opportunity to question that role or determine who she really is. It evaluates how one of the major themes of the play is self identity, versus the role that society places upon people and how this theme is expressed through the changing character of Nora. It discusses Nora?s character and her transformation through the story showing how her transformation is really just a change in the role she chooses to play and not a change in her actual character.
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"These events are the ones that change Nora?s character so that she begins to become aware of herself. At the beginning of the play, Nora is a child, by the end she has become aware of the situation and has matured enough to understand that she needs to find out who she is It is in the play itself that we see her grow up, when her beliefs about her husband are finally shattered and she comes to a new understanding. She then comes to see that her father and her husband have seen her as a doll to be played with and that she is not seen as someone with her own opinions or her own will. She realizes that her whole life has been based on illusion, not reality. It is this realization that forces her to make her brave choice at the end and decide to leave her husband."
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Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2006.
An analysis of the main character in Henrik Ibsen's famous play "A Doll's House".
2,733 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper analyzes Nora, the main character in "A Doll's House" and examines the different facets of her personality. The paper discusses both her businesswoman persona that she has kept secret and the little doll persona that she displays for her father and her husband. The paper also compares the story in "A Doll's House" to Ibsen's real life, pointing out similarities between the two and looks at similarities between dilemmas faced by today's women and the women that lived in the era of the novel. Finally, the paper concludes that Nora, in spite of the persona that she projected to her husband and father for so long, is actually a strong, flexible and proud woman.
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"In reading what other critics and readers have written about the character Norma Helmer, it appears that her character evolved or was in the process of evolving through out the play. Definitely, she like many women of the 19th Century, carefully hid her strength behind a sweet doll-like demeanor that was at best a fabrication to placate the expectations of her domineering husband and the belief by society at large, that women were weak silly creatures. On the other hand, in presenting this persona, Nora also lied to herself about her own strength and until she revealed herself, she denied her husband the right of the spouse to really know whom he really married. But then maybe Torvald did not really want to know the darker and stronger side of Nora. He was an unappreciative boor for all of her hard work in his name. So we really see the two central characters as they really are at the end of the play. Nora is strong, flexible but proud, and Torvald is a priggish weak egotistical person."
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"A Doll's House": Two Characters, 2002.
A comparison of the characters of Nora and Christine in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the characters of Nora and Christine in Henrik Ibsen's classic play, "A Doll's House". It can be seen that the character of Nora grows to detest being forced to remain in a predominantly matriarchal role with limited freedom, while Christine seeks to achieve this role through remarrying.
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Ibsen and Feminism: "A Doll's House", 2003.
An analysis of whether or not Ibsen intended "A Doll's House" to champion feminist agendas, with particular emphasis on the actions of Nora.
3,425 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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For years, literary critics have tried to reach some sort of conclusion on questions concerning the text and Ibsen's personal views: Was Ibsen a feminist? This paper attempts to examine whether "A Doll's House" is a work that supports feminist views and whether Ibsen intended Nora to be a campaigner for the feminist cause. It shows how, a closer inspection of both the play and Ibsen's preliminary notes about its construction reveal that Ibsen did not intend Nora to advocate women's rights. He intended her to be the catalyst for human betterment, a movement which he felt both men and women needed to participate in before any type of true union between the sexes was possible.
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"The fact that Torvald, like Nora, is not allowed to break from his role either indicates that he is also a slave to the roles which society dictates, and that freedom for both sexes from these roles is tied up in the release of the opposite sex from their role (Baruch 34). Baruch points out that in this play, the home, traditionally believed to be a place where one is allowed to be oneself, is instead a training ground of sorts for both little boys and girls in which they learn their sexually dictated roles (33). Ibsen himself champions the need to liberate both women and men in Norwegian society in a letter written to Bjornstjerne Bjornson, "Norway is both free and independent enough; but a great deal needs to be done before we can say the same of Norwegian men and Norwegian women" (Sprinchorn 179). "
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"The Doll's House", 2002.
A literary review of "The Doll's House" focusing on the character on Nora.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper purports that Nora is right in leaving her husband and children. Nora is a victim of oppression and of patriarchy. Her life has been a doll house that she must leave in order to find herself.
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"A Doll's House", 2002.
A study of the themes and characters in Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary 19th century drama "A Doll's House".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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The author of this paper shows how in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" the home of Nora and Torvald Helmer is a microcosm of society at large and specifically, society's prevalent sexual divide. He points out that, like dolls in a dollhouse, every character is incomplete: they are fragile, have faults and are easily breakable. The paper shows how Ibsen, who considered himself a social commentator, enters the realm of realism and that the symbolism in "A Doll's House" enhances the realism.
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"The independence that Nora demonstrates towards the end of the play so shook up the establishment that the production of "A Doll's House" in Germany was not allowed in its original form. In the German version, Nora does not slam the door in Torvald's face and storm out into an uncertain future with steely determination. She takes one look at her children and her resolve melts away into uncertainty and self pity. She relents and stays home. In Sweden, social invitations came with an admonition that "A Doll's House" should not be discussed. Ibsen was incensed at this threat to the basic integrity of the play; he called such a reaction "barbaric." (Ibsen & Kildal, 1911)"
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Ibsen's "A Doll's House", 2001.
An analysis of the characters in the play, "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, with a focus on the wife, Nora and her non-acceptance of reality.
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This paper looks at Henrik Ibsen's play "The Doll's House" and how the theme of deception runs through it. The author shows how from the start the character of Nora seems too perfect-- perfect wife, perfect woman, but towards the end the truth emerges when Nora's true character is revealed.
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"Nora is a sheltered housewife who is domineered by he husband, until circumstances force her to show her own independence. Nora was a perfect wife at the beginning of the play, but there were underlying deceptions beneath the perfection.
"From the start of the play, we realize that there was a general sense of falsehood in the Helmer house, brought on mostly by Nora's inability or unwillingness to accept the real world. Nora's desire to conceal the truth from Torvald and herself is further augmented by the patriarchal attitudes of Torvald towards her and her open acceptance and manipulation of such treatment in order to further suppress reality. Nora's departure, as well as being an escape from a house of lies is also an opportunity for personal growth and the means by which she discovers reality."
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Feminism in "A Doll's House", 2003.
This paper explores the significance of the connections between Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House" and the rise of feminism.
735 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper explains how the behavior of Nora, the main character in "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, is connected to the title in the sense that she is like a doll living in a doll's house. This lifestyle was common during the Victorian Era, the time period in which the play was written, and gave fuel to the fire of rising feminism. The paper shows that the play's most significant feature is the real-life change that it sparked in the lifestyles of women in the late nineteenth century.
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"A Doll?s House, written by Henrik Ibsen, is a play that shocked audiences upon its release. The author wrote it to say something about commonplace marriages that took place during the late nineteenth century. The title, A Doll?s House refers to the disempowered position of the wife in referring to her as a doll. This play helped to begin the feminist movement, where women began to stand up for themselves and question the legitimacy of the societal conditioning. What makes this play connected to feminism lies in its title, the fact that it was written during the Victorian Era, and the way it began the destruction of the gender roles that are still apparent today."
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