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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-

URL_ID=4957&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html http://www.lancasterukonline.net/reviews/theatre/lutg_05doll_house.htm http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/ http://www.mnc.net/norway/Ibsen.htm