Who Has The Power In A Doll's House
Performance Task We have read
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and focused on gender roles and relationships.
You have highlighted key quotes and details and analyzed them. Remember that Feminism deals with power and trying to make men and women equal. Now you will turn your evidence and analysis into a 2 3 page essay about this topic showing how the person you choose grows or changes over the course of the play.
Essay Topic: Who has the power in A Doll’s House? To complete this task successfully you must:
Argue a clear point
Develop reasons that support your argument
Draw on textual evidence from the play that support your reasons
Analyze each piece of evidence
Explain the author’s purpose for the piece as a part of the conclusion …show more content…
What more have we discovered about the dangers of playing into these gender roles society expects of males and females?
A marriage is supposed to have a partnership. In the “Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen Torvald
Helmer has the most power the play because he calls her pet names and her by telling her what to eat, and treats her like a child.
Torvald has the most power in the marriage. He refers to Nora by pets in the play Torvald says
‘What happened to my little Songbird ‘This means he looks at her as a pet he doesn’t take her serious at all. Another example Torvald says in the play is ‘Now now! My little Songbird mustn’t drop her wings. Whats this? Is little squirrel Sulking?. He shows power because she was
disturbing him and he was telling Nora not to disturb him while he’s working and he shuts the door. Also another example that Torvald says in the play is ‘She is now not only his wife but also his child’ What Torvald means by this statement is that he doesn’t look at her as a wife only a child to him. In the play Torvald says “Is that my skylark is that my squirrel” What Torvald means by this is that he’s very demeaning it shows that he doesn’t see her as an
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and focused on gender roles and relationships.
You have highlighted key quotes and details and analyzed them. Remember that Feminism deals with power and trying to make men and women equal. Now you will turn your evidence and analysis into a 2 3 page essay about this topic showing how the person you choose grows or changes over the course of the play.
Essay Topic: Who has the power in A Doll’s House? To complete this task successfully you must:
Argue a clear point
Develop reasons that support your argument
Draw on textual evidence from the play that support your reasons
Analyze each piece of evidence
Explain the author’s purpose for the piece as a part of the conclusion …show more content…
What more have we discovered about the dangers of playing into these gender roles society expects of males and females?
A marriage is supposed to have a partnership. In the “Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen Torvald
Helmer has the most power the play because he calls her pet names and her by telling her what to eat, and treats her like a child.
Torvald has the most power in the marriage. He refers to Nora by pets in the play Torvald says
‘What happened to my little Songbird ‘This means he looks at her as a pet he doesn’t take her serious at all. Another example Torvald says in the play is ‘Now now! My little Songbird mustn’t drop her wings. Whats this? Is little squirrel Sulking?. He shows power because she was
disturbing him and he was telling Nora not to disturb him while he’s working and he shuts the door. Also another example that Torvald says in the play is ‘She is now not only his wife but also his child’ What Torvald means by this statement is that he doesn’t look at her as a wife only a child to him. In the play Torvald says “Is that my skylark is that my squirrel” What Torvald means by this is that he’s very demeaning it shows that he doesn’t see her as an