A Doll House By Henrik Ibsen

The well-kept room and the occasion of Christmas symbolize happiness and high spirits as well as Nora’s harmonious married

Continuing with and exploration of symbolism we see the Christmas tree becomes stripped and droopy when Nora's mood changes (obj. 3). She finds out that there has been a letter put in the letterbox that reveals her biggest lie to her husband. With the box is locked, she has no key, therefore she cannot stop the outcome of him finding out the truth. It represents the trap of Nora and the cause of her denials (obj. 3). Knowing that she has to perform the tarantella she rehearses it throughout the play and uses it to distract Torvald from finding out the truth. She also uses the dance to play the part of the doll dancing as the masters insist. The tarantella is the climax of the play (obj. 3). Nora dances with great intensity almost as if it her life depended on it. The dance brings out the turning point in Nora's character. It symbolizes the last dance a doll will perform for her master. It is after the dance is over they go back to the apartment and the letterbox is opened.

In A Doll’s House, specifically, Nora finds a small way to express her desires through the symbol of macaroons. The macaroons are included in the play in order to show the reader that Nora silently protests her husband’s control over her. She is aware that eating candy goes against her husband’s wishes, yet she does so as small gesture of defiance and independence. In addition to the macaroons, the idea that Nora lacks independence is seen through the dollhouse symbolism. Nora compares herself to a doll that both Torvald and her father have manipulated and played with to suit their desires.

At the beginning Macbeth didn't want to hurt anyone, but in the middle of the play his wife Lady Macbeth had wanted to be queen so she had convinced Macbeth to kill King Duncan. He was going to go through with the plan but she made it to where he was convinced even more. The downfall was that he had been under her control so much that Macbeth had not only killed King Duncan he had also kill seven other people that had been in his way of the King. And the full change of Macbeth was that he had once been a nice man and then he had been changed into a killer just because his wife wanted to be queen. I believe that If Lady Macbeth didn't get full control over Macbeth he would still be a nice man who doesn't want to hurt anyone and if he did he

The Christmas tree is symbolic and emphatic to Nora’s feelings. When the Christmas tree is lit up and full of ornaments she is happy and has no worries, but when the Christmas tree was stripped of its lights and ornaments she is said to have walked about the house uneasily. It is also emphatic in the sense of it being Christmas time which also means it is winter. The tree also helps emphasize in a metaphoric sense, Nora’s character in relation to her and every other woman’s role in the house and in society. She is there for decoration just as the tree is.

Ibsen brings out a Christmas tree in the beginning, “she leaves the door into the hall open behind her, and a PORTER is seen outside, carrying a Christmas-tree,” (Ibsen). It tells us that the play takes in place during Christmas on a cold day. Behind that meaning, it represents how Nora is treated by Torvald. Ibsen assures the readers that a man, Torvald, expects his woman to look fine and representable to the eye of everyone, since the wife represents how the house looks from the inside. Ibsen “was concerned about the so-called weaker sex,” referring to Nora in this situation (Hassan).

A DOLL HOUSE EXAMINATION The Christmas tree in A Doll House puts on a different appearance and can be interpreted as a way for it to represent different types of roles, characters and relationships throughout the play. The tree in itself is a deception because of the different appearance it puts on, but it also represents Nora’s phycological state at different times as well as Nora and Torvalds marriage and the ugly truth behind it’s ornaments. Throughout the play, the Christmas tree appears a couple of times but not without meaning, it’s first appearance is on page 43 when the tree is delivered.

     Ibsen’s purpose for writing this piece is to entertain while pointing out an injustice. Through the events of the play, Nora becomes increasingly aware of the confines in which Torvald has placed her. He has made her a doll in her own house, one that is expected to keep happy and

Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” a nineteenth century play successfully uses symbolism to express many characteristics of Helmer’s life, together with the way that the main character Nora feels towards her marriage at the end of the play. Ibsen’s use of symbolism to convey about the social setting, including the harsh male-controlled Danish society, seen mostly in Torvald in the play and the role of women, signified mostly in Nora. These symbols act as foretelling before the tragic events at the end of the play, as they show the problems which lead to the demise of the Helmer’s ‘perfect’ family life.

In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House, the play is framed around symbolism and its irony.

A Doll 's House by Henrik Ibsen, is a play that has been written to withstand all time. In this play Ibsen highlights the importance of women’s rights. During the time period of the play these rights were neglected. Ibsen depicts the role of the woman was to stay at home, raise the children and attend to her husband during the 19th century. Nora is the woman in A Doll House who plays is portrayed as a victim. Michael Meyers said of Henrik Ibsen 's plays: "The common denominator in many of Ibsen 's dramas is his interest in individuals struggling for and authentic identity in the face of social conventions. This conflict often results in his characters ' being divided between a sense of duty to themselves and their responsibility to others." All of the aspects of this quote can be applied to the play A Doll House, in Nora Helmer 's character, who throughout much of the play is oppressed, presents an inauthentic identity to the audience and throughout the play attempts to discovery her authentic identity.

Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” is a controversial play focusing on the marriage of Nora and Torvald Helmer. The play is filled with symbols that represent abstract ideas and concepts. These symbols effectively illustrate the inner conflicts that are going on between the characters. Henrik Ibsen’s use of symbolism such as the Christmas tree, the locked mailbox, the Tarantella, Dr. Rank’s calling cards, and the letters allows him to give a powerful portrayal to symbolize aspects of characters and their relationship to each other.

In Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”, the Christmas tree is a centrally important stage property used to symbolize Nora’s duplicity, reflect the disintegration of the facade of the perfect marriage as well as the fate of the Helmer family, and mirror Nora’s self-image. The state of the Christmas tree transitions from a plain fir tree at the beginning of Act I, to a decorated Christmas tree towards the end of Act I, then finally to a dishevelled tree at the beginning of Act II. Such transition in its appearance on-stage symbolises significant changes that happens in the Helmer household over the Christmas season. The decoration of the Christmas tree symbolizes Nora’s duplicity as being both a seemingly compliant housewife, and a tactfully manipulative

It is parallel to Nora’s life when she tells Torvald that no one can see her in her dress until the evening of her tarantella dance. She is the tree that nobody can see until it is “dressed”. A life cycle of Christmas trees is that they are grown in their natural settings, then chopped down and moved into a house where the family decorates it while it is dying. This can be related to Nora’s life she no longer lives with her father and is taken out of her natural settings, in a sense decorated for

The door of A Doll’s House is closed at last. This is a symbol for the end of the way society thinks about women back in the Victorian era around the 19th century. At the time Henrik Ibsen wrote the play A Doll’s House in Norway, it was normal for society to look down upon such women that would leave their children and husbands behind. Men had a higher status than women at that time. The title “Doll’s House” ties well with the play because it illustrates how in the past, society treated women as dolls. The title of the play demonstrates an allegory for women’s roles because it