Being that a Doll house is based on Modernist and Feminist ways. Why did Henry Ibsen want his plays to be based on theses 2 things ? Do you think this play is related anyway to today’s society? Do you think other playwriters from today would feed off of this play and recreate something similar ?

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It is amazing how these two works are related in explaining the struggles and rights of women. Time has changed and women are actually more independent then men but do women enjoy this or would they prefer the traditonal stay at home life?

After reading A Doll’s House and learning some more background of many of the prominent playwrights in the modernists period of theatre, I’m really beginning to wonder why these authors choose theatre and plays as their medium of expressing their ideas in the first place. For many of these plays, you can easily re-create them as a short novel, and many of these playwrights were writing in different forms to begin with, so why choose theatre? Especially for something that isnt part of popular entertainment and most likley wont get seen by the masses to begin with?

How would Nora’s character be viewed back then  compared to today? During the time the play had come out, women weren’t supposed to really be people of society, but only supporters for men. Now seeing that Nora has a voice of her own, do you believe audience’s liked to watch such a play?

A doll’s house consist of gender socialization. In which Nora is assigned the role of house wife. When reading this play you can associate the issues of identity to issues in society today. Society is always evolving. Women’s rights are Improving, do you think it will effect theatre or impact future plays ?

Seeing as I have already done a combination post on modernism and A Doll’s House for Tuesday class, I thought I’d do a better critical response on the content of the play.

Seeing as we got to learn more about the playwright Henrik Ibsen and his acclamation to realistic dramas. It seems the word free and the connotation of freedom appears throughout the play, what message do you think Ibsen was trying to across to the audience through the nature of the play and its relation to society?

Ibsen’s play contains kind of factor of feminism and modernism. For instance, when Nora realizes how her husband treats her then she leaves “A Doll’s House” by her own decision. This is a thing that cannot be accepted woman gets away from the man’s bosom at that time period. Ibsen shows us the distinguishable things from former form of the play or zeitgeist.

Of course I am curious on how the people during this time period viewed the subtext through the play, why do the toys that Nora bought for her children seem very important? Do they symbolise something?

Nora was plagued with misfortune and anguish, her marriage, according to her husband brought nothing, and disrupted his happiness. Do you think if Nora had the chance to leave and raise the children, would this feeling of helplessness return to her?