Dollie: A Narrative Fiction

Do you ever wonder what it was like in a horror movie? Nothing like a cliche, more like It and maybe a couple others. What a doll that was cursed, able to move on her own and be insane? A doll that can smell a sin miles to acres away and track it down like a hungry bloodhound in the cold winter willing to eat any meat. That’s what happened years ago, I thought it was a legend, but never make a sin in front of the doll. You’ll wake her from her sleep and she’ll take revenge on all humanity to make the world pure.

‘A Doll’s House’ is widely considered by many to be Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s magnum opus. The play is tightly structured with 3 acts that take place over a short span of three days. Each act contains just one long scene. The scenes are primarily two person scenes that are interleaved with temporary entrances and quick exits by the other characters in the play. Furthermore, the play has a strong sense of unity of action, in the sense that events in the play take place in a causal manner, where each character’s actions on inaction have a significant impact on the course of events that follow. I shall elucidate this point in a latter part of the essay.

"Hey, boss can I talk to those fine girls who just walked into the store?!" Sammie exclaimed with excitement.

“Come Myleigh were going to be late.”said Laci “I’m coming, I’m coming.” said Myleigh Emily said “ The party is going to be over by the time we get there.” The three girls were going to the scariest party in Indiana. The girls drove up and it was storming. They got to the door and it opened by itself. The girls all screamed. Then the owner of the house came.

At a young age, the word “working” was as common to me as the word barbie doll. I have been working since I was in the fifth grade, the time I was barely learning how to add and subtract numbers. Every day after school I was at my mom nail salon. My mom was the owner and I was helping out. Having to experience working at a young age has allowed me to meet different people.

Uneven, crunchy, dusty gravel cracked under Nelson’s black combat boots as he walked towards the old, tall, rusty, discolored metal fence that is blocking the woods from the outside world. “Beep, beep!” he swung his body around and to see the familiar black Jeep pull up on the gravel road, with the dirt temporarily staining the shiny black paint. When Peggie popped her head out of the car window, Nelson relaxed a bit, Peggie is the only person in the world that knew where to find Nelson in a matter of minutes, but this time he had her stumped; her heart was racing when she witnessed him facing the deep, dark woods.

As the door to the local burger joint swings open, I step in with my other, my father, my brother, and my small companion. Tucked safely beneath my arm, my small companion gets me many stares from other costumers as my family and I order our food. With those red curls, blue eyes, and confident smirk, one might think she is my sister, or maybe even my daughter, but she is neither of these things. In fact, she is a doll—the Animator’s Collection edition of Merida (from Disney Pixar’s ‘Brave’) to be exact. Did I mention I’m seventeen years of age?

One of the most important thematic bridges connecting two of the seminal works of Henrik Ibsen, author of A Dollhouse, and Tennessee Williams, playwright of The Glass Menagerie, is abandonment and its effects on the family dynamic. Each work’s protagonist—Tom in The Glass Menagerie and Nora in A Dollhouse—actively undergoes the process of starting afresh in life by abandoning the strict limitations of domesticity in search of spiritual and financial stability.

Theater of the absurd was a drastic change from the traditional kind of drama. Theater of the absurd is similar to the Dada and surrealist film. While traditional kind of drama was written by writers such as Shakespeare and Sophocles. Theater of the absurd is known for dialogue that contradicts actions. For example, if the action is dramatic the dialogue would have gallows of humor. In the theater of the absurd the events would follow no logical order and the characters undergo little to no change. This broke from the traditional mold of how to create a play. An example of a traditional play is A Doll’s Houses. A Doll’s Houses was heavily based on plot, conflict, background and conclusion. While Waiting for Godot is an example of the

“Yeah! I’ll give you a rundown on the rules. So you get three wishes, no more, no less. Oh, and don’t try to be slick and wish for more wishes, it ain’t gonna work. And there are some things I can’t let you wish for. I can’t make anyone fall in love, come back from the dead, or die. But yeah. With those things in mind, feel free to wish away.”

Penny lies, in full 18th century attire, with a ruffled blouse, bonnet and all, clinging to a ragged doll. Her appearance prominent against the scurrying, present day city life that circles her. She looks lost and displaced. The pavement she lies on is cold, grimy and damp but this doesn't bother her. She looks and feels so tiny as she glares vacantly into her own mind, attempting to make sense of the perplexity racing through her head and the bizarre world that surrounds her. Although she feels detached within herself, the people around her see nothing but a little girl playing make believe. It is not so unusual to see such a young child playing ‘dress up’. They all say, ‘she is just playing’ or ‘she will grow out of it’, but in her head, this is all she knows and this is all she has ever known. She doesn’t belong here. In her mind she belongs to a distant time and place. The thoughts and recollections of a distant time are so striking in her mind, they appear more real than the life she is presently living.

A Doll House Essay Ibsen said that his mission in life was to “Inspire individuals to freedom and independence” which was shown throughout the play A Doll House. Since he wrote modern theatre, the characters were real and audiences could relate to them. He particularly questioned the role of men and women during his time. Ibsen used A Doll House to motivate women so they would seek more power and freedom in their relationships.

When A Doll House was first produced Ibsen successfully shocked and angered many who went to go see it. However if you google A Doll House today you’ll find many article’s praising it for its feminist themes. When looking at reviews for A Doll House after its first production I find no mention of feminism but rather many called it untrue and one even called the third act “it’s Achilles heel”(Avis ). The reason for this is that Ibsen’s view of society greatly differed from many of his contemporaries when this play was made. By looking 20th and 21st century reviews and reviews from the plays first production you can see a clear shift in the way people perceive woman Ibsen’s views seem to coincide with more modern feminist view.

Nora Hemler – The protagonist of the play and the wife of Torvald Helmer. Nora initially seems like a playful, naïve child who lacks knowledge of the world outside her home and a bit of a ditz. When her husband, Torvald, calls her things like his "little squirrel," his "little lark," and, worst of all, a "featherhead," she doesn 't seem to mind. Experiences and knowledge have enabled her to see her position in her marriage with increasing clarity and finds the strength to free herself from her oppressive situation.

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.