Doll House
AN ANALYSIS OF NORA, THE MEN IN HER LIFE,AND HER NAVIGATATION TO INDEPENDENCE The play, A Doll House, written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879, is considered a landmark in drama for its portrayal of realistic people, places, and situations. Ibsen confines his story to the middle class. He writes of a society that is limited not only by its means of livelihood but also its outlook. Ibsen portrays his characters as preoccupied with work and money, showing a reduction of values in and that lack of quality persons with morals. Ibsen takes this realistic story and invests it with universal significance. Wrapped up in the technique of this well constructed play, Ibsen is masterful in his presentation of not only realism, but he holds a mirror up to the society of his day by using the male figures as catalysts for Nora's ultimate knowledge of self-actualization. He accomplishes this with such precision that the audience might not be aware all the subtleties that are creating their In A Doll House, Nora forges the name of her father and risks damaging her husband's good name. Henrik Ibsen offers remarkable insight into the nineteenth
This leads to her catharsis by forcing her to look at herself in a manner that she had never planned or envisioned. As shown when Torvald says to Nora: All your father's flimsy values have come out in you. Thus, through Nora's association and interaction with her father figures she, in a broader sense, hints at the possibility of a new dynamic for the family and society as a whole. As the only father figure in the play that is not a father, Rank simply shrinks when it comes to the possibility of becoming savior to Nora. Drama: A HarperCollins Pocket Anthology. An institution which she turns to for salvation. Once Nora realizes the shallowness of Torvald's position, she rejects him as patriarch and herself as the narrowly defined wife. At the climax of the play Torvald tries to rekindle Nora's slave spirit in an effort to validate him and to reestablish his dominance over his environment. Nora realizes that the name of her father may be all that remains of him. This gesture is symbolic to the audience as well as Nora's character.
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