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¶ … People in Love in Ibsen's a Doll's House and Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
Berkove, Lawrence I. "Fatal Self-Assertion in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" American
Literary Realism 32.2 (2000). Print. Berkove makes a very interesting point. Mrs.
Mallard's self-assertion does end her life. He argues that Louise Mallard is not a feminist heroine but "an immature egoist and a victim of her own extreme self-assertion" (10). His theory is that Louise is not a woman...
His argument is the direct opposite. He believes that Mrs. Mallard is too weak to face the reality of her imagination. When there is a challenge to her newly-found sense of self, she collapses.
Dagenhart, Natalia. "Freedom as a Sense of Life In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" Web.
Nov. 2010.
This text is useful in discussing a historical basis for the play. Unlike Nora in A Doll's House, Laura was not able to separate herself from her family. She needed to be a mother but Nora was more interested in becoming a fully-developed human being than in motherhood.
Zhuo, Liu. "The Epiphany of Woman's Consciousness: a Reading of Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour." Journal of Northeastern University (2004). Web. The article discusses the importance of a woman's self-actualization. The argument is that not only is the woman in the story the subject of infantilizing by her husband but so too are all women in the American landscape at the time the story is written.
This is also Nora's problem in Ibsen's A Doll's House. She is infantilized by her husband and comes to the point where she cannot allow this of herself anymore. In Chopin's story, the young woman only realizes what she has become when she learns that her husband is dead. It is a societal problem and that is why, ultimately, she cannot escape her sphere.
Doll's House Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's Housemade him the father of modern literature. His writing showed tragedy and drama in a new and rather modern way. Prior to an analysis of the story at hand, it is only relevant that the plot and main characters are discussed in detail. This story does not revolve around a whole bunch of characters and is based on only a few days. The story
Ibsen's a Doll's House as Modern Tragedy The most powerful and lasting contributions to the literature of a given era are invariably penned by bold thinkers struggling to comprehend the ever changing world in which they live. Spanning the 18th and 19th centuries, the European Modernist movement, which was propelled by the authorial brilliance of authors and playwrights such as like the Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, was shaped and inspired by the
He feels that Nora's freedom is not a reality since she couldn't possibly just leave her house and establish her own identity without money. "Nora needs money -- to put it more elegantly, it is economics which matters in the end. Freedom is certainly not something that can be bought for money. But it can be lost through lack of money." (Found in Schwarez) In short, whatever were the reasons
Instead of needing his help and protection, Torvald finds out that it was only Nora's role playing and really she was capable of working and doing deceptive things. Torvald's response to the letter shows that he has very little self-awareness and really thought that the "role-plays" were reality. 5. Torvald believes that marriage and family are important, and that the man or husband is in control. Torvald thinks that men
Rank. "But, Nora darling, you're dancing as if your life depended on it!...This is sheer madness - stop, I tell you!...I'd never have believed it - you've forgotten everything I taught you" (Ibsen 204). Torvald must now take her in hand and re-teach the wild Italian dance, the tarantella. The choice of this particular dance by Ibsen is a stroke of genius as it aptly illustrates the nature of the
" Ibsen demanded justice and freedom for every human being and wrote a Doll House to inspire society to individualism and free them from suppression." (http://www.helium.com/items/1121047-henrik-ibsen-dolls-house). In the play, the family exists in the way society defines it -- a husband, a wife, children and a home; but in reality it is just a collection of strangers living in the same house. For Nora the crisis of blackmail and her husband