A_Dolls_House

A Dolls House A Dolls House Henrik Ibsen’s “A Dolls House” is one of his best known plays. He is known to create theater that explores social issues in an entertaining way. In “A Dolls House”, Ibsen takes a look at the role of women in the late 1800’s. When it first opened, people became outraged. Instead of the play being wrapped up nice and neat by the end, it leaves you wanting more and wondering what is going to happen next. Over the course of this paper, we will take a look at the structure of the play by looking at the six elements Aristotle thought were the most important in any play; plot, characters, theme, diction, music, spectacle, and convention. We will also take a look at the seventh element of convention and how it works itself into the play to makes the play come to life. Plot As we begin the play, we see Nora coming in to the house with packages from her day of Christmas shopping. There is a general sense of happiness. Nora seems to be full of life and reminds you of a child by her clothes and her giddiness. Soon after returning doll, house, nora, torvald, play, krogstad, things, about, linde, job, one, mrs, look, music, husband, child, very, time, seen, life, able, stage, light, letter, characters, way, throughout, man, convention, bank, words, rank, piano, diction, children