References: Ibsen, H. (2011). A doll’s house. In D. L. Pike and A.M. Acosta (Eds.) Literature: A world of writing stories, poems, plays, and essays. [VitalSource digital version] (pp.555-589). Boston, MA: Pearson Learning Solutions.…
Cited: Ibsen, Henrik. A Dollhouse. Literature an Introduction of Reading and Writing. ED. Vivian Garcia. 5th ed. Boston: Pearson Education, 2012. 1201-222. Print.…
Bibliography: 1. The drama of Ibsen and Strindberg was consisted a good critical analysis over A Doll’s House that helped me in understanding Ibsen’s views as well as an outside source. I was able to easily find facts and normative statements that helped my writing of this essay go a lot smoother. The point of this book is to break down the elements and get into the author’s head to understand his views while also being critical. It helped change my opinion of the author by gathering information I didn’t already know and hopefully made my information more or less accurate.…
In A Dolls’ House the stories’ two main protagonists Nora and Torvald Helmer which is a married couple experiences many things while being married. And in most cases money brought forth the bulk of their problems, which eventually caused the relationship to split apart. However many people looked at the couples’ relationship from the exterior and thought it was legit. Another character in the play, Nora’s close friend Ms. Linde views the Helmers as a married couple who lives comfortable enough to afford things that she usually cannot. Even though the Helmers’ household is taken care of financially, it is in disarray due to lies, and deceit. On the outside it looks fine as Nora could be compared to a doll; looking nice and well kept together. In reality Nora has hid from her husband that she have been repaying a debt for years from when her and her husband took a trip to Italy. The reader also learns that Nora secretly forged the signature of her deceased father. Out of all the things that happened within the story Torvald eventually finds out about what’s been going on and is outraged. He calls Nora a hypocrite and a liar and complains that she has ruined his happiness. He declares that she will not be allowed to raise their children. And as a result the married couple are separated. The symbol “doll house” really help functions in the work of revealing the characters because it shows Nora as a doll who you would think is squeaky clean and flawless, but deep down inside is…
Ibsen and Strindberg are two playwrights of the same period, the Industrial Revolution. This is a time when the world is making a great change in how it runs. Not only is business changing, the way people think is changing too. People are beginning to question the ways of society. For an example, questions are arising on how women should really be treated. Such notions give way to very controversial theatre. Ibsen and Strindberg strongly demonstrate how these issues were reasoned.…
Ibsen, Henrik. “A Doll’s House”. Literature and Ourselves: A Thematic Introduction for Readers and Writers. 6th ed. Ed. Gloria Mason Henderson, Anna Dunlap Higgins, Bill Day, and Sandra Stevenson Waller. New York: ABLongman, 2009. Print.…
“Finally, research on Ibsen’s life proves that, all claims to the contrary, his intentions in A Doll House were thoroughly feminist” (Templeton).…
Barbara Lide Michigan Technological University STRINDBERG’S IBSEN: ADMIRED, EMULATED, SCORNED, AND PARODIED In 1893, when August Strindberg was living in Berlin, he posed for a portrait painted by the Norwegian artist Christian Krogh. Krogh reportedly painted seven portraits of Strindberg at this time, one of which was purchased by Henrik Ibsen. As is well known, Ibsen hung that portrait of Strindberg on the wall of his study, and he has been quoted as saying that he could not write a line without having that “madman staring down at him with his crazy eyes.” Ibsen’s words could, of course, be taken as a lefthanded compliment, for on the one hand, while Strindberg might have provided inspiration – by perhaps furthering the spirit of competition in Ibsen – on the other hand, Strindberg represented “madness.” Also, Ibsen is reported to have said, “He is my mortal enemy, and shall hang there and watch while I write.” (Meyer, p. 266) Yet the actor and director August Lindberg tells about how he once was asked by Ibsen, who never had met Strindberg, if the portrait was a good likeness of Strindberg, and then, “in a whisper,” which, according to Lindberg, Ibsen “perhaps did not intend to be heard, muttered, ‘A remarkable man!’”(M. Meyer, III, p. 253; Lindberg, p. 308). While Strindberg had no portraits of Ibsen hanging in his study, he certainly had formed for himself an image of Ibsen – an image that underwent changes from the time he first read, and was enthralled by, Brand, (with its ruthless idealism), through the “Doll House Years,” when he condemned Ibsen for becoming a “bluestocking” and referred to him in his letters as “Fru Ibsen,” –and again through the years of stiff competition on the stages of Europe, when Strindberg, younger than Ibsen by 21 years, was trying to supercede him as the greatest writer of Scandinavian drama. One of the ironies about this competition is that frequently literary and theatre people outside Scandinavia – especially in Paris – often…
One major topic incorperated in Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll House is the influence of heredity on a person. Ibsen seems to think that heredity is responsible for all faults in a person’s existence. Even what modern-day scientists would classify as environemental factors are ocnsidered heredity in Ibsen’s play.…
The Battle between Responsibility and Manipulation in Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” Noorbakhsh Hooti Assistant Professor Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Arts Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. Amin Davoodi EFL Instructor The Adults' Department of the Iran Language Institute, Kermanshah branch Kermanshah, Iran. Abstract…
are good. "Yes, I was swayed by duty and consideration for others; that was why I…
In the plays Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, and Wild ducks by Henrik Ibsen there are many similar themes, which become evident to the reader. A theme, which is consistent…
Ibsen shows the foolishness of the majority of people by showing how easily swayed they are from the truth. Dr. Stockmann, who has always been known as one who truly carries the interests of the people and his nation to his heart, is cast out by the town he meant to save. The compact majority was in favor of the mayor and the greedy leaders of their town rather than one lone man standing up for all that is just and right in the world. Despite knowing that he meant the best for the town they went with those that had greater power. They believed in the corrupt, backwards men of society, and cast a patriot out of their ranks.…
Ibsen embraced these standards through the development of his characters when he wrote Ghosts. Mrs. Alving and…
Utilizing one of the main characters of the play, Mrs. Alving, Ibsen communicates his own ideas of inheritance and the impact of the past. Ibsen successfully generates a protagonistic view of Mrs. Alving for the audience; therefore the views of this character reflect the actual views of Ibsen. This concept of "Ghosts" is the theme that is at the core of the play, and is possibly one of the reasons why Ibsen generated this piece of work. Mrs. Alving's character demonstrates a firm view of inheritance. She believes that every individual in this world is 'haunted' by not only the inheritance of ancestors, but that there are also ideas that haunt every generation. This is also the view of Ibsen himself.…