Entrapment Of Household Analysis Of “A Doll’S House”.

Entrapment of Household: Analysis of â€Å"A Doll’s House† The author of â€Å"A Doll’s House†, Henrik Ibsen was criticized for his controversial advocacy of moral and social reform by failing to respect the institution of marriage in his plays. A Doll’s House presents the aftermath of nineteenth-century patriarchal husbandry like those in Susan Glaspell’s play, â€Å"Trifles†. In many of the parlor plays of this era, female spectators reflect on their individual situations, revealing the unsatisfying nature of a woman’s position in marriage which alters their cultural and spatial conception of the domestic (Mazur 14-15). While male spectators frequently use terms such as hysteria, abnormality, and unacceptability to women acting outside what men†¦show more content†¦Although these roles were restrictive to being a homemaker and mother, both wives were further restricted by isolation. Minnie Wright was with a husband that worked long hours and was without child. While Nora Helmer was str ipped of all responsibility of her children’s upbringing by Torvald hiring a nursemaid for them and he also told her, â€Å"I shall not allow you to bring up the children; I dare not trust them to you.† (Ibsen 3.836). Both male and female gender roles exploited in a form of imprisonment for every character in both plays either from marriage or from the social economic stressors of the era. The faà §ade in which they lived seemed normal, nearly perfect, but it was an illusion to obscure the reality of unsettled marriages. According to Mr. Mrs. Hale, John Wright was a hard man that was close who isolated, deprived, and disrespected Minnie to the point that he may likely have strangling her treasured song bird. In contrast, Torvald treated Nora like she was nothing more than his plaything as she was raised to be, as she said â€Å"at home I was papa’s doll-child† (Ibsen 3.838) and in matrimony, Torvald expected her to get in costume and dance her tara ntella for his pleasure. Nora’s tarantella was empowered by the metamorphism of costume, in which it was easier to reach an out-of-self state (hysteria) in costume than in constrictive everyday dress. These meta-acts like Nora’s tarantella gave nineteenth-century women theShow MoreRelatedHenrik Ibsen s A Doll s House899 Words   |  4 PagesAcclaimed as one of the principal playwrights that gave birth to modernism in theatre, Norwegian playwright and theatre director Henrik Ibsen pushed boundaries with his plays that analyzed and criticized societal norms and values. A Doll’s House provides one such example, where the play’s protagonist Nora leaves her husband in the final scene to undertake a spiritual journey of self-discovery. An alternative ending was made for this play posthumously as a result of the controversy it caused at theRead MoreAtonement -Female Disempowerment2579 Words   |  11 PagesIn their reflection on the past modern writers prese nt the experiences of a woman as one of disempowerment. To what extent do you agree with this proposition? Angela Holdsworth foregrounds the changed position of women in her book Out of the Dolls House where women are no longer content to endure the treatment which in past times their inferior position obliged them to suffer.’ The use of obliged suggests how passively women had to accept their lower role under men and how they were unable to