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    Ibsen uses props in the play to reveal information about the characters that would usually go unnoticed or would be more difficult to understand. The six props I am going to be talking about are the slippers‚ the hat‚ the portrait‚ the photo album‚ the manuscript and the pistols. In act one Aunt Julle produces Tesman"’"s old slippers‚ much to Tesman"’"s delight. He wants Hedda to examine them but she is not interested. The slippers help Ibsen to prove the status of the marriage between Hedda and

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    Inequality which Led to A Break Up Hearing the word “family” we should not only picture a husband and a wife raising their children‚ but also a mutual behavior within the couple. Henrik Ibsen ’s play‚ written in 1879‚ called “A Doll House” is written particularly about a couple‚ a banker‚ Torvald‚ and a housewife‚ Nora. The story takes place during a period of time‚ when the status of women is not equal and suppressed comparing to men within the marriage. As the play progresses‚ it seems that

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    1. Who were the Vikings? ------The Vikings were also traders ‚ explorers and settlers. They were highly advanced and not as primitive and barbaric as they are portrayed. 2. How did the Viking raid? ---------A Viking raid nearly always came as a total surprise. The Vikings were expert navigators and knew the coasts of Europe like the back of their hand. They decided on a target and planned the attack in advance. Having the fastest ships of the day they would arrive seemingly out of nowhere close

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    ​In a male-dominated world‚ women have to struggle against society-imposed identities. Within A Doll’s House‚ by Henrik Ibsen‚ Nora undergoes a journey of realization‚ leading her to believe that she must discover who she really is‚ not who society wants her to be. Nora begins the play portraying the image of a “trophy wife”‚ but as the play continues‚ she transforms into her own individual. Through Nora’s cognizance that she has been pretending to be someone she wasn’t‚ Ibsen displays that women

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    Nora’s Story: The Prolonged Harboring of a Youth Amidst The Emergence of an Elder Nora Helmer‚ the main protagonist of Scandinavian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879)‚ has always been depicted‚ as an exuberant novelty item‚ whose only purpose is to serve the important male figures in her life. This especially pertains to her father and her husband. These male figures move around Nora’s realm with indirect disregard to Nora’s true nature‚ desires‚ and abilities. Although this facade

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    A Doll’s House was a controversial play in its time because of Ibsen’s bold questioning of society’s basic rules and norms. One of the most pressing questions in the play is that of the unequal treatment of women. Ibsen questions Is it right to treat women as inferiors?’ Through the relationship between Nora and Helmer‚ Ibsen presents unequal power sharing in a negative light‚ trying to provoke the audience into questioning what was accepted as the norm in that period. One of the subtler techniques

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    Throughout books‚ short stories‚ and plays we witness as characters evolve and grow into their roles. These changes sometimes occur as a result of an event or possibly through the influence of another character. Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House” is a character that finds her true self through her interactions with several minor characters. As the play opens‚ the reader sees Nora‚ the protagonist of the story‚ as what appears to be a prancing doll-like wife happy living under her husband’s

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    Viking art is first and foremost a very confident art. The most distinguished styles of Oseberg‚ Borre‚ Jellinge‚ Mammen‚ Ringerike and Urnes each show distinctly what Vikings valued in their art. It focused heavily on animal ornament. This tradition lasted from the beginning to the end of Viking art. Excavations have revealed much more abstract art than naturalistic which leads us to believe that abstract art was in the main stream. However‚ it has been noted that abstract art has been found on

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    “A Doll’s House” Henrik Ibsen Women did not always have all the freedom and right that they do nowadays. Henrik Ibsen hints at the roles of society and how the female gender was treated during the Victorian Era. What Ibsen believed about the roles of society‚ the equality between males and females‚ and the ideas of feminism is easily observed in his play‚ “A Doll’s House.” This play was written with Ibsen’s opinion in mind and a great portion is influenced by what Ibsen believed about the central

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    Percy Aldridge Grainger was a passionate artist. He was an expressive musician who pioneered the use of folksongs in modern music along with his peers Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughn Williams. However‚ it is his compositions and arrangements for wind band that championed and set the foundation for the wind ensemble concept that is employed today. In order to gain a better appreciation for the composer‚ one must understand his background as a budding composer and musician‚ his compositional style and

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