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lagoon_nebula's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Got good at the end
something_sinister's review against another edition
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
tanya_tate's review against another edition
5.0
I still love it like I did when I was 19 reading it in my first year in college. I honestly understand it more now than I did then. At first I didn't like the fact she left the kids but now I understand why. She never felt like she was mother to them in the first place which she said. She always felt like they were her playthings like her father and then her husband treated her. It's not to say that once she discover who she truly is and what she believe that she won't come back for her kids and be a mother to them. I believe she would but she have to find herself in order to do that. This is why this play is consider fenmist cause at the end Nora did something that some women at that time dream of doing. Leaving to find themselves in this world. So A Doll's House is still one of my faves.
bigmeany_3's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
creosote's review against another edition
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
erinmichelle1995's review against another edition
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
the_reviewer's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
maydas's review against another edition
4.0
For my gender and sexuality literature class, about A Doll's House and Nora's passion for death (part of the essay).
Nora being a doll first in the hand of her father, then her husband shows her trying to attain imposed aesthetic ideals upon women in the society. The ideal femininity demands beauty, passiveness, innocence, being the object of love and affection, enjoyment to others, especially men, and being able to be completely possessed. However, this idealization is impossible to accomplish by any living being. Nora acting like a doll, getting dressed,
designed by her husband and acting in accordance to her husband’s demands drains the life and individuality out of Nora, who is a living woman. She conforms to the role of a doll by entertaining her husband in many ways. They both deceive each other by complying to the role assigned to them. This pattern can be observed in “Sonnets” by William Shakespear. The dark lady pretends to be innocent, naive, which is what society expects her to be and the poet believes her even though it is apparent that she does not have these qualities. They both cooperate in this deceit like Helmer and Nora. But at the same time Nora resists by lying, breaking the rules her husband made, and manipulating the people around her, thus she is not and cannot be the perfect woman society demands. Another woman we have read who is not an ideal woman, but forced to be, is the late wife of the duke in “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning. Both the duke and Helmer are under the impression that they bring the beauty and goodness of their wife by making them lifeless. The duke kills his wife and has her portrait in the replacement to achieve the aesthetic ideals of womanhood and Helmer forces her wife to be the doll he desires. The duchess dies, because she was full of life and Nora suffers from a life which forces her to be a lifeless doll and fantasizes of her death, both linked to achieving the impossible.
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Gender and Sexuality in lit dersi okumalarından.
Kitabın sonu beklenmedik. Nora'nın Torvalt'a yaptığı son konuşma ve kararlılığı, kitabın 1879'da yazıldığı düşünüldüğünde daha da etkileyici oluyor.
Nora being a doll first in the hand of her father, then her husband shows her trying to attain imposed aesthetic ideals upon women in the society. The ideal femininity demands beauty, passiveness, innocence, being the object of love and affection, enjoyment to others, especially men, and being able to be completely possessed. However, this idealization is impossible to accomplish by any living being. Nora acting like a doll, getting dressed,
designed by her husband and acting in accordance to her husband’s demands drains the life and individuality out of Nora, who is a living woman. She conforms to the role of a doll by entertaining her husband in many ways. They both deceive each other by complying to the role assigned to them. This pattern can be observed in “Sonnets” by William Shakespear. The dark lady pretends to be innocent, naive, which is what society expects her to be and the poet believes her even though it is apparent that she does not have these qualities. They both cooperate in this deceit like Helmer and Nora. But at the same time Nora resists by lying, breaking the rules her husband made, and manipulating the people around her, thus she is not and cannot be the perfect woman society demands. Another woman we have read who is not an ideal woman, but forced to be, is the late wife of the duke in “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning. Both the duke and Helmer are under the impression that they bring the beauty and goodness of their wife by making them lifeless. The duke kills his wife and has her portrait in the replacement to achieve the aesthetic ideals of womanhood and Helmer forces her wife to be the doll he desires. The duchess dies, because she was full of life and Nora suffers from a life which forces her to be a lifeless doll and fantasizes of her death, both linked to achieving the impossible.
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Gender and Sexuality in lit dersi okumalarından.
Kitabın sonu beklenmedik. Nora'nın Torvalt'a yaptığı son konuşma ve kararlılığı, kitabın 1879'da yazıldığı düşünüldüğünde daha da etkileyici oluyor.