Anger In A Doll's House

Men (and sometimes women) ignore it, see it as our being “upset” or “hysterical,” or see it as craziness” (Frye, p.84). In Frye’s opinion, men see women’s anger as “irrational”. Men do not know how to handle women’s anger and sometimes even respond physically or just disregard it because they do not know how to deal with it. Frye’s discussion of anger, although from a feminist point of view, brings an insight into the emotion of anger and how it affects people.

Throughout the essay “Of Anger”, Thomas Fuller argues that anger is a detrimental aspect to human character. When people are experiencing anger, Thomas Fuller says that they are experiencing the devil taking over them. The main theme in this essay is ways in which anger should not be handled. The essay carefully and clearly evaluates ways to deal with anger while using many illusions and examples that are persuasive to the reader. Thomas Fuller takes the universal concept of anger and uses concrete arguments, literary devices and his persuasive techniques to convince the reader that anger is a detrimental component of human character.

At a first glance, the poem “The Author to Her Book”, written by Anne Bradstreet, is quite difficult to decipher. With a perplexing use of diction, Bradstreet manages to lure readers in and stimulate interest, much like puzzle. The language usages in the poem was intrinsic to the time period it was written in however, a current audience may become confused at the site of this poem and be more inclined to investigate it. After reading this particular poem numerous times, the underlying story begins to be revealed. It appears as if the author being described in the poem is unhappy with her work. The speaker’s friends on the other hand, liked it and decided to publish it so the author was forced to revise the writings and make them better. The vibe from the speaker however, is of constant disgust in their work. No matter how much they revised and edited, they were never satisfied with anything completed. To add character to her work, Bradstreet effectively uses metaphors throughout the poem to aid in her overall theme of conflicts

This paper will examine Robert C. Solomon's Emotions and Choices article, to best identify what anger is, and to what extent a rational human being is responsible for their anger. Firstly, Solomon's argument must be described. A quick summation of Solomon's argument can be found in the following four points: Emotions are judgements, emotions are chosen, emotions serve a purpose, and emotions are rational.1 To quote Solomon, he explains that “Emotions are not occurrences, and do not happen to us. They ... may be chosen like an action.”2

In A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, is a play about the personal revolution of a Norwegian housewife. Nora appears to be happy with mindlessly obeying her husband, until it is discovered that she has a secret debt that she has hidden from him. Krogstad, Nora’s loaner, threatens to reveal the debt to her husband. When it is inadvertently revealed, Nora realizes the lack of depth of her husband’s feelings for her and leaves their established household and family to find her own personal identity. The theme of A Doll’s House is that societal norms restrict personal freedom.

The characteristics of anger in literature appear in many literary works. Anger in literature is characterized by the struggle against the establishment, values, conventions and authority. The 20th century modern playwrights focused on many themes such as: the theme of social critic against middle-class values, theme of violence, damage, rage, hatred, loneliness and frustration. The protagonists are mostly of the working-class or of lower middle-class origin; who view society with contempt and ironic humor and may have conflict with authority. They share a disrespect and contempt for the class system and the post welfare state. Anger in literature is characterized by applying the plot which is true-to-life, logical, consequential, and it is

Every human has felt anger at some point. It is directly linked to the adrenal gland and therefore directly related to the survival of our ancestors. I myself have felt a lot of anger throughout my life. Mainly, the response is triggered by the mindset of people not allowing themselves see the reality. My personal experiences shows that anger is not simply the emotion of a crowd, but begins on the individual level. In our present day society, anger is incredibly contagious, starting at the individual level and it spreads rapidly, often through people with similar views. The spreading of anger often leads to violences. In recent events, widespread anger has led to mobs clashing with police in Catalonia, Spain. The spread of anger and its effects demonstrate the use of this emotion in our lives. In Lord of the Flies, the island is a mousetrap of anger, slowly leading up to the collapse of their island civilization. The tension on the island caused by anger shows one of our human flaws, and demonstrates what it does to a group, spreading quickly and reaping havoc. Anger is part of our human nature, and not much can be done to prevent it and its effects.

The role of being a husband in both A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen and Fences by August Wilson is failed to a certain extent due to the fact that they cannot meet the expectations of their wives. By failing to do so, they both damage their relationships. In Fences, we learn that Troy Maxon’s failure as a husband started when he cheated on his wife, Rose, with another woman, who soon became pregnant with his child. In A Doll’s House, Nora would do anything to save her husband, Torvald, but that that feeling wasn’t mutual, and in the end, Torvald shows Nora who he really is, someone she did not expect him to be.

The enforcement of specific gender roles by societal standards in 19th century married life proved to be suffocating. Women were objects to perform those duties for which their gender was thought to have been created: to remain complacent, readily accept any chore and complete it “gracefully” (Ibsen 213). Contrarily, men were the absolute monarchs over their respective homes and all that dwelled within. In Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, Nora is subjected to moral degradation through her familial role, the consistent patronization of her husband and her own assumed subordinance. Ibsen belittles the role of the housewife through means of stage direction, diminutive pet names and through Nora’s interaction with her morally ultimate

In conclusion, anger has a great impact on the novel as it portrays the feelings of the character within themselves, whether is be all the time or unexpectedly of being frustrated, annoyed or scared. Anger in the book also reflects upon the people during the Great Drepression or the American Dream, unable to fulfill their dreams how much they tried or injustice. Not just back in the 1930s, even our society today is filled with anger from unfairness or people’s

The representation of deception and social oppression through the use of symbols in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

It has tackled social and political issues. In order to highlight culture issues, the experimental theatre has tried to use a different language and this was perceived as dangerous. The most famous writers in that time were Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco and Artaud .

Plenty published by David Hare in 1978 and Ghosts published by Henrik Ibsen in 1881, might have almost a gap of hundred years in publication, but they are both plays that attest the intertemporal issue of society’s pressure on the woman. In the notes of A Doll’s house, in 1878, Ibsen writes ‘A woman cannot be herself in contemporary society, it is an exclusively male society with laws drafted by men, and with counsel and judges who judge feminine conduct from the male point of view.’ The female protagonist in Ghosts, Mrs Helene Alving, has been influenced by the society’s need of forming women that are first, obedient daughters, then, obedient wives, dutiful mothers, but in general, obedient individuals of that society’s ideals, conventions and traditions. In Plenty, the audience gets to examine years of Susan Traherne’s life, ‘from her World War II activity as a courier in the French Renaissance to her emotional privation in the post- Suez British plenty’. Even after the war, Susan cannot sustain a fulfilling life since the society’s ideals and conventions disharmonize with her own opinions and purpose. The common element between Mrs Alving and Susan is that as women they are expected to fit into a certain role in the real life, directed by the society itself, a life that diminishes their personal fulfilment.

Literature, no matter what the topic of form it comes in, has the ability to raise issues, spark thought/imagination, and/or draw out emotions that have been buried deep within us as people. It is expected, from the authors, that readers will form opinions and criticisms for their works. Be it that the readers’ emotions parallel those of the writer or differ; some thoughts and opinions are expected.

A Doll’s House was published in Norway in 1879 by Henrik Isben. He is known as the father of Modern Theatre. He is also referred as the father of realism. The play is very interesting because of the funny dialogue, the unique characters, and Ibsen 's view of the place of ladies in the public eye. The main characters of the play is Nora Helmer and her husband Torvald Helmer. Imagine what it would be like to live in a doll 's home? It 's a house in which you are controlled and have no energy to settle on any solid choice; It 's a house in which you are a play thing for another person 's amusement. This sounds a ton like an awful marriage, so it 's a house in which your husband holds the satchel strings, in a manner of speaking, and abandons you with no influence over your family 's accounts. In fact, your husband keeps you on a tightrope. Such is the perceived life of Nora Helmer.