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"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Gandhi
The title refers to Torvald's treatment of his wife as a doll and their home as a "doll's house". The apostrophe and the "s" make difference in how one might interpret the title. He does not treat her like a person but more like a doll that he can tell what to do and how to do it. The fact that it is a doll's house instead of a dollhouse shows that the story is about Nora and the events of her life. Since Nora represents a doll in this play the title is clearly referring to her. Also, Nora treats her home as if it were a dollhouse. She likes to play and dress up her children as if they were dolls and she also has the nescessities such as the Christmas tree to complete her very own "dollhouse".
ReplyDeleteI think that the title is significant and symbolic to the story. When I think of a doll house I think of fake people just being controlled and that is similar to the story. Torvald lives a fake superficial life where it appears as though his only goal is to make money, not to have a happy marriage and family. Like a doll Nora is controlled by Torvald, and although she has feelings she supresses them as of now and just lives a fake life trying to pretend she doesnt have any real problems; which she does.
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The play's title is significant because Nora has been treated as a "doll" wherever she lives. When she lived with her father, she was treated as a puppet, and she was definitely treated the same when she was with Torvald. Of course, these two men did not mean to hurt Nora's feelings, they were just unaware of what they were doing because Nora simply let them treat her the way they did. Therefore, since Nora is treated as a doll, the house in which she lives can be referred to as "A Doll's House."
ReplyDeleteThe significance of the title of the play A Doll's House is bacause of one of the main characters role in the story. Nora is one of the main characters in this play and her life to her feels like that of a life of a doll. Her husband Torvald whom she has been married to for eight years makes her feel like she lives a sheltered life and she does not like it very much. In the story it shows how he trys to manipulate her and protect her. This makes her very frustrated and she then falls out of love with him. She feels this way not only with her husband but she also had this lifestyle when she was young, her father tried to shelter her when she was a young girl she felt sheltered and like a toy doll. This is the reason the author named the story A Doll's House because of how the character Nora felt about her life.
ReplyDeleteThe title "A Doll's House" has great significance to the play. Nora's actions depict a doll that is manipulated with no mind of her own. The 'puppeteer' who is manipulating Nora is Torvald, her husband. Dolls are inanimate figures who essentially never leave their doll house. This is similar to Nora's marriage, which seems charmed (like a doll house) but is truly just a worthless relationship that Nora can not free herself from. When she leaves at the end of the play, she is leaving the marriage and hence the doll house. By doing so, she has liberated herself from that inanimate, doll-like character and can now have her own life.
ReplyDeleteI think the title is significant because once you read the play, you realize that it is Nora who is living in a dollhouse. She is controlled like a doll, and Torvald acts as if he can control her as a puppet. It shows that sometimes humans can have inanimate characteristics just like how inanimate objects can have human characteristics.
ReplyDelete1. In this society men are very dominate over the women, and the women are treated as if the men own them. They went from their father's home to their husband's home and were expected to behave in the way that they wanted. Torvald, Nora's husband, treats Nora like a child, a little doll. He has demeaning names for her, such as "little lark" or "little featherbrain". Torvald makes all decisions for Nora and even makes rules for her to follow. She's expected to play the part of the typical house wife who is extremely obedient and has no opinion of her own. Torvald basically treats her as a trophy wife, and sees her as nothing more; he doesn’t care about her feelings or what she has to stay. Nora is so adapted to the way that her husband treats her, that she does not even express sadness about her lack of respect, in some ways she even acts like a child. This is why this story is called a "doll's house", it directly refers to the way that Nora is treated by the men in her life. She is subjugated by the men, and treated like a puppet on strings, they control her every move.
ReplyDelete~Brittany Strycharz