A Doll's House and The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

Introduction

The following paper based on the two different artistic plays that written by Henrik Ibsen and the plays selected for the paper are A Doll's House and The Lady from the Sea. The structure of the paper based on the thesis statement that highlight key distinction shared between the two common subjects that the plays covered. Therefore, to provide readers an in-depth analysis, the paper has been divided under different headings for better compliance.

Thesis Statement

To highlight the role of characters in the play that what actually they are in search of, for instance, in Doll's House, the leading character Nora wants to discover herself and in the Lady from the Sea, the main character Ellida also fond of sea and she want to explore her life. Therefore, from one way or the other, both the plays had similarity among them.

Plot Summary for "Dollhouse"

"Dollhouse" is the first work that addresses the issue of the independence of women. Its publication caused a great controversy. The atmosphere of this play is classic: a happy family with three children who triumphs socially (by the rise of the husband in his job at a bank), but the protagonist has a secret: he forged the signature of his father for a loan. With that money paid a one-year trip to Italy with her husband for it to heal from illness. The arrival of a childhood friend, Cristina, Nora makes her secret trust and this is discovered. Her husband, Helmer, to know decide to remove the education of their children, but not divorce by the outside appearance.

Nora had been raised to be the first doll of her father and then her husband. He had always worn a blindfold, but the arrival Cristina, makes this band and she falls for the first time in his life have their own personality, and start being someone, telling her husband that started when he was willing to forget the crime of his wife simply because there was no public evidence that the accused could therefore decides Krostag not going to complain (Parkinson, pp. 121-29).

Designates elements of dramatic conflict presents "Dollhouse"

In "Dollhouse" is about the problem of social justice. Nora is a woman, and this condition cannot borrow without the consent or his father or husband. It is a crime. However, when it comes to Krostag to ask the money you need to cover travel expenses, do not think that is committing the crime because he believes that the reasons which led it to forge the signature of his father, who died in those days (allowing you to avoid the displeasure of knowing that her daughter was going through a financial slump in her marriage), and hide it from her husband to be to see if it is able to take some responsibility, and demonstrated that it is stronger than everyone thinks, is not punishable as a crime. It's a little unconscious.

But Nora commits crime is much more serious than one that made Krostag ...