Matryoshka Nesting Dolls

Rachel Aouli Kalama Utagawa was six when the book Moloka’i by Alan Brennert began. She wanted to travel the world like her father did. Every time he went to a new place he brought Rachel a cultural doll. The most recent addition to her collection was a Russian nesting doll. Like her newest doll, Rachel was still showing her outermost shell. She was an innocent girl who saw the good in the entire world around her. As she explored and discovered the layers of herself, the world around her unfolded. This sweet doll had layers of innocence, sorrow, hate, joy, and fulfillment.

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

A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, portrays a young married woman, Nora, who plays a dramatic role of deception and self-indulgence. The author creates a good understanding of a woman’s role by assuming Nora is an average housewife who does not work; her only job is to maintain the house and raise the children like a stereotypical woman that cannot work or help society. In reality, she is not an average housewife in that she has a hired maid who deals with the house and children. Although Ibsen focuses on these “housewife” attributes, Nora’s character is ambitious, naive, and somewhat cunning. She hides a dark secret from her husband that not only includes borrowing money, but also forgery. Nora’s choices were irrational; she handled the

Anastasia had four siblings while growing up; she had three older sisters named Olga, Tatiana, and Marie and she had a younger brother named Alexei, who was heir to the throne (Biography 1). Her sister Olga was born on November 16, 1895 and her sister Tatiana was born on June 10, 1897 (Fleming 36, 39). Olga and Tatiana were cared for by their mother’s lady-in-waiting (Biography 1). Her sister Marie was born on June 26, 1899 and her brother Alexei was born on August 12, 1904 (Fleming 41, 53). Alexei was the Grand Duke and the Sovereign Heir Tsarevich of Russia (53). When Alexi was born, he had blond curly hair and blue eyes (Englar 16). Alexei was a hemophiliac and so his blood did not clot properly and even a minor cut could take hours or even days to stop bleeding, but the biggest danger came from minor blows that might or might not start a slow oozing of blood beneath the skin that flowed for hours or even days into surrounding muscles and joints (Fleming 54). Olga and Tatiana were called “the Big Pair” by their parents (Fleming 45). Nineteen year old Olga and seventeen year old Tatiana enrolled in nursing courses with their mother and after two months of intense training, they earned their nursing certificates as well as the right to wear the Red Cross uniform (138-139). Anastasia had siblings while she was growing up and she was the second youngest child out of all her

“The barefoot peasant girl ran over. ‘Mona,’ she said, and reached up to touch the doll .Esperanza quickly jerked it away and put it back in her valise, covering it with the old clothes.”p.69.

Many toy companies have now made their dolls diverse because of all of the races in America. They have not just changed people with different skin tones or facial hair but also have changed the amount of genders. This is very important because many religions or people don’t look or want the original blonde barbie. Now people want stuff that will make other people and children feel special about themselves.

A Doll’s House is a play Henrik Ibsen. The play starts with a loving couple Mr. and Mrs. Helmer. Nora Helmer once secretly borrowed a large amount of money so that her husband could recuperate from a serious illness from Italy. When Torvald is appointed bank director, his first act is to catch a man who was once disgraced for having forged his signature on a document. Krogstad, the person Nora has borrowed her money. It is then revealed that she forged her father's signature in order to get the money. Krogstad threatens to reveal Nora's crime and as a contract Krogstad, demand Nora to tell Torvald not to fire him. When Torvald

New criticism is very important in reading A Doll’s House because of the fact that we must read closely in to the story to find literary devices. These literary devices are what help explain the story and without them the story would not be as enriched. One of the very first literary devices we see is at the start of Act one when metaphors are used. They are used in a way to belittle Nora, which is something that Helmer tends to do often throughout A Doll’s House. One example of this is when Helmer tells Nora “Come, come, my little skylark must not droop her wings. What is this! Is my

Doll Girl is a mute and friend of Azoth and Jarl. when Azoth begins a rebellion within the black dragons Rat mutilates doll girls face. When Azoth pays for her to leave the Warrens she is renamed by her family to Elene. She learns to talk. She and Azoth love each other but Azoth cant see her for years because Durzo wont let him, She thinks he is dead. When Azoth is on a mission they see each other and Azoth reveals himself to her. Azoth saves her from death at the end of the book and they leave the city together and bring Durzo’s daughter,in what seems lkike

In the play “A Doll House” the main character was a woman by the name of Nora Helmer. She was a young women who lived in Europe during the nineteenth century. She was married to a man by the name of Torvald Helmer who seemed to be a little controlling. At first Nora seem to appear as an

As my 4 year old self laid upon the Kazak carpet that coated my entire living room, I seamlessly attempted to assemble my Matryoshka doll back into its original state. While my fingers lightly stroked the wooden components of the doll, I realized how captivating the complexity of it was. While I was a child, I invariably portrayed the doll as merely a “toy” with an interesting concept behind it; however, as I emerged into my adolescent years, I understood that the Matryoshka symbolized my process of growth and adaptation as an American immigrant.

The Dolls House is a story where you can see the cruelty of children towards each other. This story is centered on the concept of three middle class girls who are given a beautiful doll's house as a present. They are thrilled about the new toy just how any child would feel when they receive a new doll or

Macaroons: nora ! Nora! Please don’t leave me and go… why did she leave me half eaten? what is going to happen of me now!! Torvald detests me, he was always against Nora eating me………why did it have to be me?

This “doll house” image mainly lies within Nora, the doll of the play. Nora represents the

“I’ve been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa’a doll-child” (Ibsen 1491). Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House tells a story of scandal and deceit set in the Victorian era. Nora Helmer is married to Torvald Helmer and she feels more like his toy than his wife. Nora had to have Torvald to be able to do anything, because of when she lived. Nora borrows money behind her husband’s back (which is illegal at this time) and tries to cover up everything she has done. Ibsen employs the use of many themes and symbols in his A Doll House to show the reader just how Nora was a doll-child who evolved into a doll-wife.