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A Doll’s House Significance
Influence on theater – Anh Bui
Influence and Impact on Society – Mary Kay Baker
Society in a Doll’s House
Portrayed as a repressive influence on the individual Created a series of conventions and codes
that an individual would defy at his or her own peril
Dramatizes the hidden conflicts in this society by opening the doors to the private, and secret rooms of the bourgeois homes
The Changing Role of Women in Society as seen in A Doll’s House
The gender motif was more than a search for individual fulfillment
Ibsen thought that women should have a chance to develop their own identity Role was actually self sacrificial
Changing Role of Women Cont.
What defined one’s place in society was one’s ability to make and control money
Their ability to control money enabled them to control others’ lives, including defining morals
A Doll’s House and the Theater
Considered first feminist play of the Victorian time period
Presented aspects of middle class life that were not supposed to be made publically known
Response to A Doll’s House
Shocked by unhappy ending and feminism
People saw their own problems on stage because Ibsen gave a more realistic view of society instead of the Victorian view of perfection
Banning of A Doll’s House
Banned in England when first release Ending changed to be performed in
Germany Created controversy after Victorian
period ended
Criticism of A Doll’s House
Reconstructive rather than destructive Superficial treatment of the problems a
divorced woman Mentioned aspects of middle class life
that were not publically known
Sources
http://department.monm.edu/classics/Speel_Festschrift/urban.htm http://www.novelguide.com/ADoll’sHouse/themeanalysis.html http://portal.enesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-
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