is described as being‚ “busy opening some of the parcels”. Nora busies herself with small matters‚ hiding macaroons and organizing things. Although her husband‚ Torvald‚ labels Nora as “my little squirrel” and a variety of other animals in a patronizing manner‚ Nora seems to act in the same as a woodland creature‚ continuously “scampering about”. Nora behaves like a small child‚ hiding macaroons from her husband and spending excessive amounts of money; Torvald is not entirely incorrect in his statement
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provides the money for the family. 4. The macaroons represent the desired separation from Torvald she so desperately desires. The macaroons will destroy her teeth‚ and by destroying her teeth‚ she is destroying her beauty which is the sole reason Torvald is married to Nora. The macaroons foreshadow that a major conflict is going to happen between Torvald and Nora by the end of the book. 5. Torvald believes Nora when Nora lies about not eating the macaroons‚ because Torvald doesn’t understand the relationship
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much his service costs and he says “six pence.” Nora then hands over a shilling‚ “There is a shilling. No‚ keep the change.” This quote shows Nora to be quite generous and almost that she is showing off her money. Nora then takes a packet of macaroons from her pocket and eats one or two and then silently goes to her where her husband is working and listens. This shows us that Nora is child like for she is spying on her husband and secretly listening to him‚ as he is unaware on what she is doing
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Candidates Name Candidate #: 8476383 August 23 2012 Word Count: 1‚313 Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” Analysis Henrik Ibsen’s‚ A Doll’s House‚ was written in the late 19th century as a form of rebellious acts. At the time he lived in Rome and Amalfi‚ Italy living through the European revolution. Through this a “new modern perspective” was coming alive and Ibsen challenged the norms and traditions of a typical marriage‚ family and lifestyle. In‚ A Doll’s House‚ the idea of a realistic family
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THE SYMBOLIC SIGNAFICANCE OF OBJECTS IN “A DOLL’S HOUSE” Hush…… I can hear voices… Macaroons: nora ! Nora! Please don’t leave me and go… why did she leave me half eaten? what is going to happen of me now!! Torvald detests me‚ he was always against Nora eating me………why did it have to be me? Dress: everybody adored and praised Nora when she wore me… but alas! What was the use of all my beauty and finery when in the end she left me all alone. Why was I given so much importance if she was to
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“It is often said that protagonists in plays are flawed in some way.” To what degree and with what effect are the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonists significant to two or three plays you have studied. In the universality of human experience‚ every individual has endured a serious flaw in character and lapse of judgement. Playwrights such as Ibsen and Friel move from this macrocosmic view of the human condition‚ and confine the natural human tendency to reveal their flaws‚ often in a
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able to take care of herself without Torvald being there. Nora’s life is better in a general sense‚ but Kristines is better in terms of accomplishments. 3. What might be the link between Nora’s “Contraband” macaroons and her “huge desire to say – to hell and be damned?” Both the macaroons and Nora’s desire to say “to hell and be damned” indicate that whether she even realizes it at this point‚ she is tired of being controlled and over-powered by Torvald. 4. What
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Dana Schrenker O’Connor April 20‚ 2010 A Doll’s House A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen‚ is a play about a woman who realizes that she is worth more than she has been given credit. Her whole life she was treated like a little doll; too fragile to do anything serious‚ too frail to be troubled with real business. She was the wife‚ mother and homemaker. The only things she was perceived as capable of were running the home‚ raising the children and looking pretty. This was
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An audience of the nineteenth century production of ‘A Dolls House’ would hold strong connections to the patriarchy. Male dominance and the suppression of the female were regarded as ‘natural’ to an audience in this time. Ibsen strongly addresses these beliefs from the commencement of Act One. Progressively challenging the opinions of the audience as the play develops. The characters Nora and Torvald‚ on the surface of their relationship‚ address the commonplace gender roles assumed by male and
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Childish Behavior In the play "A Doll House" Henrik Ibsen shows how being a wife and mother does not necessarily mean that one has grown up. During this play you see that Nora‚ a wife and mother‚ still holds on to her childish behaviors by acting just as a young girl would. In "A Doll House" Ibsen shows how Nora’s childish behavior causes problems between her and her husband through her actions‚ words‚ and her interactions with others. From the start of the first scene Nora’s actions speak
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