YOU CAN ONLY USE THIS THESIS AS IT WAS APPROVED BY MY PROFESSOR :
In “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen explores 19th-century Scandinavian gender roles through the growth of Nora’s character in her search for independence and freedom from societal constraints.
Research this topic and answer these questions
Women’s rights
• In a speech nearly 20 years after the premiere of A Doll’s House, Ibsen denied that
he had written the play to advance women’s rights. What, then, is the play’s
meaning for Ibsen? What did it mean to its first audiences? What did it mean to
the professional critics?
• To understand that more fully, research the roles played by Scandinavian women
in the latter quarter of the 19th Century (about 1874-1899.) Were women just
homemakers, or did they do some work? What kind of work? What was their
general level of education? How were they treated by men, by husbands, by
fathers? By the law? With your new knowledge, you will give your own view of
what you believe became of Nora after she left Torvald. Did Nora obtain the
freedom she sought, or end up a broken, disappointed woman?
Productions in various media
• In class, we viewed a motion picture of A Doll’s House produced by an American in
England, in 1973. The play has also been produced as a movie in many other
countries; it has been produced on TV, on radio, on audiotape and perhaps other
media. For your essay, you will research the non-live-stage productions.
• You will tell us as much as you can about these productions, the years they were
made, in what countries, in what languages, the stars, directors and writers
involved, costs of production, boxoffice results, critics’ evaluations, and,
especially, whether the basic story and/or characters were changed, and why.
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WRITE AN ESSAY of at least 9 pages, plus the Works Cited page.
