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    Irony in ​ A Doll’s House   Directions​  ­ Work with your group to define the following terms. Use what we have learned in  class but also feel free to look up information in your literature book and/or online.     ** NOTE: ​ You should make a copy of this‚ and EVERYONE in the group should fill it out  individually. For Act II‚ you will work in groups. For Act III‚ you will work individually. The  document will be turned in for a grade at the end of the play‚ and I will assess not only your  group work

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    An ideal marriage consists of communication and honesty‚ but in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen the Helmer marriage is quite the opposite. At the beginning of the play‚ Nora conformed to obeying her husband and she was naïve in hoping that her husband would sacrifice his reputation for her. She even forged a check to borrow money from the bank to help Helmer with his illness. She thought that this would be a good way to show her love and ability. Their weak marriage later revealed that Helmer never

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    Nora’s Quest for Justice In Henrik Ibsen’s‚ A Doll’s House‚ Nora struggles to achieve justice and her rightful place as a woman‚ mother‚ and wife‚ despite the hardships and mistreatment of her husband Torvald and her father. Throughout Nora’s life‚ she has faced hardships in order to survive as a normal person because of the mistreatment she received from the two men in life she ever loved; her father and her husband. The mistreatment of Nora’s father and husband has caused Nora to become and

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    ‘A Doll’s House’‚ written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879‚ presents its primary character‚ Nora Helmer‚ as a strong individual who evolves greatly throughout the entirety of the play. In fact‚ as the play progresses‚ Nora challenges the societal views during the time in which it was written and first performed. The Mirror in 1889 said: “‘For whatever one’s opinions of ‘A Doll’s House’ as a play may be‚ there can be no question of its startling unconventionality’”. Throughout the three acts Nora Helmer proves

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    A Light Heart The Doll’s House has a really great meaning to it. There are a few key points in the story that go along with meaning. These key points are how the doll’s house is described‚ why none of the children or parents are kind to the Kelvey’s‚ and how Kezia is passionate about the lamp in the doll house. In the story‚ The Doll’s House‚ Katherine Mansfield described the doll house very thoroughly. “There stood the doll’s house‚ a dark‚ oily‚ spinach green‚ picked

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    different meanings as well. The title of “A Doll’s House” represents a theme throughout the play and is important in the last scene of the play. The title “Media” is like most romantics where the main character is the title of the play. The play “Media” was radical just like “A Doll’s House”. Both plays said things that the audience would be offended by. In media it was that she was a foreigner who manipulated their king and killed him. In “A Doll’s House” it shows the life of an average middle class

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    Candide and a Doll’s House In the novelCandide Voltaire writes a humorous yet gruesome satire of society by telling the story of a man named Candide‚ the bastard nephew of a German Baron‚ who grows up in his castle and falls in love with Cunegonde. Candide is thrown out of his home and forced into many awful situations‚ due to his relations with Cundegonde. Candide joins forces with many others who have gone through traumatic experiences in his search for Cunegonde. In the DramaA Doll’s HouseHenrik

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    the back door around the house and scanned the area with the light in front of me. I had done this same task many times before‚ yet the sharp silence and shifting shadows that surrounded me built an apprehensive tension. Troubling thoughts suddenly emerged‚ my imagination running with a tumultuous delirium. I envisioned wolves would appear from the woods behind the house and hunt me down. My rampant thoughts soon incited me to hurry and quickly get back inside the house. Rushing to the trash cans

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    This quote explains how Iago has been getting money from Roderigo. The comparison in A Doll’s House is similar to Shakespeare’s Othello. In A Doll’s House Nora was also being dishonest‚ not trust worthy and was deceiving her husband as it pertains to their finances. Nora had forged her father’s signature to secure a loan to save her family and sick husband financially. Nora’s

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    "The Doll’s House" is one of the representative stories of Katherine Mansfield. Who is known for freshness of her approach and beautifully colored methods of presenting her ideas. The story basically gives us deep insight into the manners and behaviors of the aristocratic families. Here she ridicules the negative philosophy of social discrimination caused by uneven division of wealth. It beautifully brings out the emotional relationship between the three sisters and their friends. Moreover‚ it conveys

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