Focus on this topic of women’s rights
Use this thesis and do not change it as this was approved by the professor word for word:In “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen examines the oppressive effects of 19th-century Sc
In “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen examines the oppressive effects of 19th-century Scandinavian gender roles through the growth of Nora’s character in her pursuit of independence and freedom from societal constraints.
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.
You wrote a
thesis & bibliography
YOUR THESIS was
approved by me.
Write your
research essay
WRITE AN ESSAY of at least
9 pages, plus the Works Cited page.
