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An 8 page paper which
compares Nora from Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and Hedda from Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler.”
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAnorhed.rtf
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is often considered to be incredibly feminist as he offers up female characters who must struggle in a mans world. Two such characters are Nora and Hedda. Nora comes to
us from the play "A Dolls House" and Hedda from "Hedda Gabler." In these two plays we are provided with heroines who are oppressed in a mans world, and two
women who must face issues of truth and illusion as it is dictated in a mans world. The following paper first examines the character of Nora in these regards, and
then discusses Hedda. The paper finishes with a discussion of the two combined. A Dolls House In the beginning of Ibsens play we note that Nora is at
first seen as nothing more than a flighty little bird with perhaps the brain of a bird. She is pretty and does what is required of her. Her position is
simple and we see this as Ibsen describes her as "little skylark twittering." Her husband calls her "little featherbrain," "little scatterbrain," "squirrel sulking", and "song bird" (Ibsen). In these descriptions
we see Nora as a weak and simple woman with no identity of her own. That is her position and she seems somewhat happy with it at first. But, as
she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life than that which is offered in the position
of wife and mother. She begins to truly put aside her acceptance of the mans world in which she lives, and gives up hope of that reality ever changing.
We begin to see the change when we note Nora talking to others, behind her husbands back, illustrating that she has thoughts and ideas that are not necessarily normal for
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