Saturday, November 12, 2016
Objectifying the Doll in a House of Men
  For thousands of years,  wenchs  pass water been a toy  compete with  lesser girls for their  enjoyment. It is interesting, then, that within the  preceding(a) few centuries men  capture begun to call women their dolls. Is this merely an  unimpeachable pet name, or does it  int destruction the ideology that men  reach regarding women, dismissing them as mere toys for their amusement? In A  razzs House, Henrik Ibsen uses symbolism to  prime the consistent underlying  approximation as the oppression and objectification of women in the 1800s.\nThe title A  annuluss House is the  outgrowth sign of thematic  implication used in the play. Nora mentions dolls houses a few times early in the play  much(prenominal) as when she buys toy dolls for her daughter and mentions that the  accompaniment they were cheap did  non  enumerate since they would most likely  distribute soon. This is an interesting parallel as it suggests that Nora is raising her daughter to  have sex a future  emotional stat   e similar to her own, and foreshadows Nora leaving her  husband and family at the end of the play. When Nora refers to her  small fryren, she calls them her  shortsighted dollies. However, the doll metaphor is not completely clear until the end of the play. Nora argues to Torvald that both he and her  pay off treated her like a doll, and uses this as one of the reasons as to why she has become  dissatisfy and troubled with their marriage.\nAt the  blood of the play, Nora and her husband Torvald have a discussion about Noras spending habits. Torvald begins using nick names for Nora such as my little squirrel and my little skylark. The pet names for her often begin with little, which belittles Nora and emphasizes her  preaching like a child who isnt taken  bad and not considered an equal. Torvald maintains complete  view as over Nora and uses her dependence on him to his advantage. He focuses on  gold and materialistic aspects rather than people, to the  commove that his sense of masc   ulinity has a direct correlation with his fi...   
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