Nora of A Doll House

A research paper on Nora in Ibsen"s A Doll House may start: For over a century, art essays have explored the debate surrounding Henrik Ibsen's intent in creating A Doll's House. Feminists have claimed the text as a strikingly realistic document of the structures placed upon women in society, while opponents of this view have noted that Ibsen himself denied any overt ideological or political alliance with early feminism. However, regardless of the controversy over Ibsen's intent in writing the play, it stands as an innovation in its frank depiction of the inherent misogyny of nineteenth-century European society. Even if Ibsen did not faithfully reproduce the problems in Nora's marriage with a specific political agenda in mind, the play itself is a moving, incontrovertible testament to the historical legacy of the oppression of women in A Doll's House. In depicting a female character who, at the end of the play, seems to reject the age-old measures of a woman's worth, namely, motherhood and marriage, Ibsen's A Doll House created an extraordinarily innovation in theatrical techniques and stylistics.

Nora in Ibsen's A Doll House

and Realism

Your research paper on Nora will want to present an in-depth examination of the means by which Ibsen portrays Nora's subjection in the play. Your paper should examine at least one of the following aspects:

1. Focusing on the realism he uses as his primary technique of exposition
2. The political and ideological ramifications of Ibsen's aesthetic and artistic choices.
3. Ibsen's methods of exposition and description may be examined.
   1. Expound on the significance of these techniques in the context of the social issue of women's oppression.