Norway

Theatre is accessible to all audience members. Even though everyone has different life experiences, an image is something they can grasp onto, but interact with in different ways. This gives each audience member a personal experience with the piece. In A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen uses the image of the Tarantella dance to emphasize the poison of deception and hypocrisy that characterizes Nora and Torvald’s marriage. The Tarantella was a wild Southern Italian dance, generally danced by a couple…

We read the story “Wish you were Here” by Frank Jones, where Norah changes her thoughts because of the situations throughout the story. Norah has lived a consistent life, where from all of a sudden she changes herself according to the time. At that time murders were rare, but now the world is full of murderers, in which positive people have transformed into bad beasts. Throughout the story Norah had so many ups and down changes emotionally, which seems to her fate that she stays unhappy.…

Sweden: the cold Scandinavian country known for vikings, the Swedish chef from The Muppets, and Ikea. Sweden has unique traditional music, an especially contemporary education system, and an abundance of holidays and festivals. Sweden is known for some of it’s famous opera singers and excelling in educating their students. Especially their known for their style of music. In Sweden many different kinds of music are popular like pop, waltz, and traditional music. In Sweden traditional wind…

Christina Linde, known as the “truth teller” from the novel A Doll’s House. works as the foil to Nora, the leading lady of the play. Christina highlights every weakness that Nora possesses just by being the polar opposite of her. Christina reflects Nora’s weaknesses throughout the novel with her humility, her need to work and care for someone, and especially through her desire to always speak the truth. Christine’s compassion becomes very recognizable as her character introduces herself within…

“A Doll's House” is a three-act play in prose written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879. A Doll House is about a women named Nora Helmer. She is the wife of Torvalds Helmer, and the mother of his children. 8 years before the play is set, Nora takes out loan for a trip to Italy to save her husband’s life. She forges her father’s signature, and she never tells her husband about the loan. She pretends that the loan was actually money given to her by her father. During the story, Nora struggles to hide what…

In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll’s House, several of the characters hide their true identity as well as events that have taken place throughout their life. It can be interpreted that the title holds significance in the actions of the characters. Many view a doll house as an imaginary world that is free to manipulation. Thus, the title can be considered to be a prelude to the deeper dilemmas within the play itself. In the play, one of the first characters that is introduced is Nora Helmer. The…

The Vikings were crazy people who stole and killed people; or were they? The Vikings were people from Scandinavia who sailed around the North Atlantic raiding, trading and spreading their culture. They made it known that they were great seamen, explores, and warriors because of their advanced navigation, spreading of economics, and warfare. The Vikings may seem as if they were terrible people, but had a significant impact on the world. The Viking age was a period from the late 8th century to…

Eadweard Muybridge, born Edward Muggeridge, is regarded as the father of motion picture. He was born in England as Edward Muggeridge, but later changed his name to the current Eadweard Muybridge. He was unsatisfied with his life in England and decided to move to San Francisco, United States. Once in the States, he first started off as a bookseller. Quickly after though, he took up photography and studies with a daguerreotypist. His most famous work started after Leland Stanford, former governor…

As seen in Modern-day Vikings: A Practical Guide to Interacting with the Swedes, Modern Sweden keeps its Viking heritage alive by maintaining the same sense of solidarity within their community that the Vikings created. This started when the Swedes revolted against their Danish king, Christian II. After the king’s brutal rebuttal to the beginning of an uprising resulted in over eighty opposing noblemen murdered at a feast known as the “Stockholm Bloodbath,” the people of Sweden agreed to join…

Ibsen’s 1879 play, A Doll’s House, tells us the story of Nora, a woman living in the late 18th century, who gets treated like a doll by her husband Torvald. Ibsen presents the idea that women don’t have the same rights as men and are treated as inferior, which leaves readers asking, “is this still relative to today’s society?” Perspective one tells us how the role of women has changed since the late 1800’s. In the 1800s women were educated to take care of the house, children, and husband. Since…