Doll House Excerpt

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A wife (Nora) figures out that she does not belong with her husband (Torvald Hemler) and children, she has no place there. He treats her like a doll and not a wife. She treats their children like her dolls and not their children. They have been married for 8 plus years, and this is the first time they have ever sat down and had a serious conversation together. Everything thus far has been like children playing with their toys, not like 2 married adults. She finally decides to leave, he tries to stop her, and they argue back and forth for several minutes, then she grabs her belonging, and heads for the door. She leaves, and the husband is lost, confused, and devastated all at the same time. Ibsen’s work fits into the Impressionism movement, as well as in the sub-category of the Naturalist movement because of the since of certain people fitting into certain places in society. For example Nora being treated like a doll/toy instead of a human being/wife, both by her husband and father. Nora’s environment making her the way she was versus her actually learning herself was an example. This particular exert from the play was quite interesting to me, because it drew me into it from the very beginning, and left me wanting more at the end. This play is a prime example of many people’s lives even in today’s society. Woman still go through this. Husbands treat the like toys playing with their emotions, and just treating them like there are almost not human. However, it is much worst now, which shows the reasons for many divorces. Henrik Johan Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828 and died on May 23, 1906. He was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He was also known as “the father of realism”. He wrote several of his plays in his later
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