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A Doll House, NORA comparison
Title: A Doll House, NORA comparison
Category: Literature / Poetry
Details: Words: 1831 | Pages: 7.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Doll House, NORA comparison
It is fascinating how a writer's personal beliefs, upbringing, and era can dramatically change a characters persona. One such character is Nora Helmer from a play called "A Doll's House". "A Doll's house" was originally written in 1879 by Henrik Ibsen. Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828 in Skien, Norway. Ibsen portrays Nora as a person with very low self esteem, untrustworthy, and self absorbed. During Ibsen's era women where subservient and listen to what they are …showed first 75 words of 1831 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1831 total…lot more power and strength. When "Slam the door softly" was rewritten, our society was going through a large feminist movement. Women in the 1970's where more liberated, they had jobs, they where exploring their sexual freedoms, and had a take charge attitude. Although Ibsen attempts are the start of a movement, not till Mrs. Luce do we see true women's liberation. I believe Mrs. Luce's Nora gave women a true role model and inspiration.
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