Analyzation of a Dolls House and The Story of an Hour
I chose love as my topic for the documented essay. The works that I am going to analyze are " A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen and "Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin. These two works particularly interest me because they both represent couples who are not fully satisfied with their partners, but both women stay with their husbands for a long time even though they are not happy and crave something else is life. Both women share similar qualities and feelings towards their husbands and dream of the same types of freedom. The stories seem sensible considering the times in which they were written, the times of Chopin and Ibsen were that of woman marrying for social status, and acceptance and not necessarily for love. The play " A Doll's House", by Henrik Ibsen, is concerned with the conflict between social lie and duty. The play is about woman's need for independence and her obligation to family and society. The two main characters, Torvald and Nora have three kids, a nice house, and to everyone it seems like they have the perfect life. But when Torvald started to talk, we can feel that something is wrong with this picture. "My little songbird", "my little squirrel" and even "my little featherbrain", these are the names th
She was in love with the idea of having the "perfect" life, with the typical husband and children. Mallard gives when she thinks her husband is dead, we can only begin to imagine what their marriage was like. Mallard first hand, their was no interaction between the two, to see how they connected. It is a common occurrence in recent times, but to think of what people would have thought of Nora back then is shocking. It is common knowledge that marriages are not always about mutual love between two people and during the time that Chopin wrote this, it was more often the case. In the end it could be argued that her death was really an ultimate freedom from her unhappy marriage, even though the male doctors claim that it was from "joy that killed", which they think is from the ultimate joy they think she felt at the sight of her husbands survival. Mallard, we didn't get to experience the marriage between herself and Mr. I believe that she does love her husband to some degree, but it is possible to love a man and not be married to him. You only thought it amusing to be in love with me. But the problem was that she was not in love with them, just the idea that society painted for her, and this was her perfect chance for her escape her life, and start over. Mallard is forever free from her husband and her old life, and Nora never has to worry about her "duties" again as a mother and wife, and is free to live the life that she has always wanted, even though she knew it was a great risk for her to take by walking out those doors.
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