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Re-reading Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: A Modern Feminist Perspective

2021

This article aims to present a re-reading of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House from a feminist perspective. Ibsen’s play is a pioneering feminist play, and he is credited for creating the first real feminist character in the history of theatre. The central female characters are analyzed, and the article also addresses the attitude of society towards women and how they struggle to prove themselves. Feminist literary criticism and feminism constitute the conceptual framework of the paper. In this play, Nora Helmer is under the illusion that her married life is perfect and that she owns what she deserves. Torvald, her husband calls her a ‘twittering lark’, ‘squirrel’, ‘song-bird’, and she is pleased with it. However, her illusion shatters when she faces the reality of finding herself being treated like a doll. As soon as she realizes that there exists an individual self of her, she revolts. She leaves the house, challenging the social institutions which contribute to women’s subjugation. N...

The Concept of Feminism in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll's House

Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, 2018

This paper investigates the role of women and their right in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll's House (1879). Ibsen, one of the world’s greatest dramatists, is considered as the father of modern drama, and as one of the great supporters of women. He never calls himself a feminist, and he is more a humanist. There are indeed plenty of feminist tendencies in his plays. Based on Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of woman as “the Other,” this paper will show the untrue system of marriage, stressing on individuality of women and fighting for their freedom, in addition protesting to all restrictions in society. Under the impact of Ibsen’s ideology, individuality and humanity are the most important social issues which are developed in his works. All social instructions and conventions are the enemy of every individual because they restrict the characters’ personal identity and their freedom. In particular, Ibsen expands this outlook on the women’s position whose individuality and freedom are taken by ...

A Critical Analysis on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House according to Feminist Point of View

Europian Academic Research

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is one of the best literature work of literary history. Here we find my modern philosophy to readjust our mind and diction. A Doll's House mainly a play written by Ibsen but as its value, it has become, more than just a play. It has become a new dimension for women freedom. By this play, we come to the inner feelings and the sprit of Women's mind. In my study on A Doll's House I have tried to go through a deep analysis on Nora Helmer's, other female characters and there circumstance in play. But when I get into it I feel a vivid description of that times women is needed. I discuss almost every aspect regarding Henric Ibsen's A Doll's House. And objective was to find out the message of Henric Ibsen in his play. In his play we find a light in the long tunnel or the crimson flash on the eastern sky after a long night . Here we find the voice of women freedom and refusing the force full domination of male society over women. From this play we get a clear path of a new era that women would be self dependent and she would able to express her feelings , thoughts according to her will. As Nora Helmer's last reaction towards society in the play , her decision may be judged wrong by many person but it's the right answer towards the male dominated society we live. The freedom form the bindings, form the chain of emotional black mailing , from the life which called Dolls life. After rejecting the dolls life Nora become human being as she wanted to be form the since day she has realized she is just a doll in the society and just living life to full fill other man wish . Henric Ibsen is very much clear and 4187 Ariful Insan Emon-A Critical Analysis on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House according to Feminist Point of View successful in his this play called A Doll's House. This play is still inspires millions of readers all over the world and regarded one of the best feminist masterpiece of all time. Nora has become virtually a name of sprit in the women freedom.

A Feminist Analysis of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

This research paper attempts to give a feminist analysis of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House based on the Anglo-American approach to feminist literary theory. It will first explain the feminist literary theory as a term as well as a practice and its function in literary criticism, followed by an explanation of the Anglo-American approach and some of its prominent writers. The paper will also explore how and to what degree (if at all) Henrik Ibsen, who is mostly famous for his realist dramas but has also been credited for his feminist characters and content, is involved with the women's cause by referring to some of his speeches, letters and acquaintances. It will then attempt a feminist analysis of the play based on the Anglo-American approach and Showalter's feminist critique, using quotes from and references to the three acts of the play as a justification to show how Henrik Ibsen challenged the stereotypi-cal representation of women in literature with his female characters .

The Women's Right in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

This paper investigates the role of women and their right in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). Ibsen, one of the world's greatest dramatists, is considered as the father of modern drama, and as one of the great supporters of women. He never calls himself a feminist, and he is more a humanist. There are indeed plenty of feminist tendencies in his plays.

Ibsen’s Voice for Women's Individual Identity: A Study from A Doll's House

Center for Academic Research and Development, 2023

Henrik Ibsen, an eminent 19 th-century Norwegian playwright produced a number of influential and realistic plays describing the true scenario of the society of that time. A number of his plays including A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghost, The Pillars of Society, An Enemy of The People have depicted the issues related to marriage, conjugal life, patriarchy, feminism, social injustice, women's suppressed condition and their struggle for independence. The present study focused on unfolding the scenario of women's struggle represented in A Doll's House. The researcher chose content analysis, a kind of qualitative research method as the avenue of the current study. The study explored that after being understood the subordinate condition, women started struggling and fighting against the socalled rules of patriarchal society. The struggle of Nora starting with a subconscious mind and ending with a very clear conscious step clearly pictured the struggle of the women folk of that time. A number of notable issues supports Nora's struggle to gain individual identity resulting in borrowing money without the consent of Torvald, arranging the whole trip for her husband's treatment, bold dealing with Krogstad and finally leaving husband and family by the slamming of the door towards exploring herself where there are a number of new open doors with numerous opportunity and freedom.

Analytical Reading and Selected Inferences: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House is a controversial play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is about a Norwegian town around 1879. The play is critical and controversial for the way it deals with the fate of a wife, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfilment during a male-dominated world. Though Ibsen denies he had intended to write down a feminist play, it aroused an excellent sensational response at the time and caused a "storm of outraged controversy" that went beyond the theatre to the media and society. Once the topic of public controversy, defended only by the avant-garde theatre critics of the nineteenth century, Ibsen's prose dramas now are famous as successful television plays and are an important part of the repertory theatre everywhere. They no more invite inflaming audience reactions and now acceptable fare to the foremost conservative theatre-goer. The basic objective of this paper is to make learners aware of the play 'A Doll's House' and to discuss about the author, the period, and the text, This paper also discusses the character sketch of the major characters, the significance of the title of the play, and also provides the critical analysis of the play.

Henric Ibsen’s the doll’s house

International journal of applied research, 2020

In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the central conflict revolves around Torvald’s controlling; demeaning treatment of his wife Nora. The tragedy of the story is not only to superiority of the husband over his wife but also the dehumanizing of the children, who are never given a voice or allowed the possibility of bettering their position. They begin the story under an institution that has marginalized them, and they remain confined to subhuman status throughout the play. In this way, Ibsen’s work; as he claims goes beyond being a work about woman’s rights and becomes instead a work dealing with the rights of all human struggling under an oppressive, patriarchal society.

Symbolic Realism in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: An Overview

In this article, our purpose is to focus on Ibsen’s realistic attitudes towards the 19th century Scandinavian bourgeois society. It also attempts to make use of symbolism, metamorphosis, art of characterization, plot-construction, and unity of opposites of Ibsen’s moral, social, and economic problems. Here, we have purposefully exposed Nora not only as a symbol of Ibsen’s contemporary feminism but as a universal feminism. Ibsen was concerned with the crisis of liberalism, the conflicts of the bourgeois families, woman's emancipation, and the psychological dilemma of the individual and the power of economy over human relations in capitalist society. It also aims at unveiling women’s everyday problems and social reality through applying symbolic realism in the play, A Doll’s House. Actually, our aim is to look at Ibsen’s subtle viewpoints towards socio-realistic criticism with a view to exposing the then Scandinavian women’s problems and social reality of the bourgeois family, the brief discussion of realism, symbolic realism as in shown in this play through unveiling Ibsen’s art of characterizations.