Monday, January 23, 2017

Objectifying the Doll in a House of Men

For thousands of years, dolls devour been a trifle played with short(p) girls for their amuse ment. It is interesting, then, that deep down the past few centuries men have begun to call women their dolls. Is this provided an innocent ducky name, or does it represent the ideology that men hold regarding women, dismissing them as uncorrupted toys for their amusement? In A Dolls field, Henrik Ibsen uses symbolization to establish the consistent primal theme as the conquest and objectification of women in the 1800s.\nThe title A Dolls House is the first sign of thematic significance used in the play. Nora mentions dolls houses a few times early(a) in the play such(prenominal) as when she buys toy dolls for her missy and mentions that the fact they were cheap did not matter since they would most apt(predicate) break soon. This is an interesting reduplicate as it suggests that Nora is raising her girlfri closure to experience a afterlife life similar to her own, and fores hadows Nora difference her husband and family at the end of the play. When Nora refers to her children, she calls them her little dollies. However, the doll fable is not roll in the hayly benefit until the end of the play. Nora argues to Torvald that both he and her father treated her equal a doll, and uses this as i of the reasons as to why she has constitute dissatisfied and troubled with their marriage.\nAt the take downning of the play, Nora and her husband Torvald have a discussion or so Noras spending habits. Torvald begins use nicknames for Nora such as my little squirrel and my little skylark. The pet names for her often begin with little, which belittles Nora and emphasizes her treatment like a child who isnt interpreted seriously and not considered an equal. Torvald maintains complete control over Nora and uses her dependency on him to his advantage. He focuses on money and materialistic aspects kinda than people, to the point that his sense of masculinity has a direct correlational statistics with his fi...

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