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Goel, Rachit
 
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Mr. Chiranjeet BhattacharyyaIB May 2010Selaqui World SchoolJanuary 15, 2009
English Winter Break Assignment
 
 
Goel, Rachit English Assignment
15 January 2009
2
Analysis of a character in Henrik Ibsen's
‘A
 
 Doll's House’ 
 
In today‟s world, people are becoming more like one another. It is now much harder to
standout. Now an individual can be criticised as
a drop in a bucket. Definition of a „Man‟ has made
out to be- A civilised individual breathing in and out the society norms. Every human has an identityin himself that represents himself in the society. However, what is society then? Some dictionariesdefine it as
“An extended social
 
group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization” and
some may define it as
“An interacting, intermarrying human population sharing a common culture.”
 A human identity is just like a tourist, or we can say that it is
„gullible‟. It can believe
anyone;any external factor can trick on him. All this depends on the mindset of the person. A person cannotshipwreck if he knows his rights and wrongs.
Society and Culture both influence an individual‟s
identity.Society a
nd Culture both play a key role in setting up an individual‟s identity. It can
guide iteither to the cloud number nine or to the misery.
An individual has to live by the society‟s rules and
its ideas can even influence him. An individual cannot escape from the society, and if he does so,society regards him as an uncivilised, barbarian.
Some philosophers say that a human‟s identity is his
most fragile belonging. If he manages it well, he can live with it and can score enviable heights in thesociety; and if he dwindles in between, no one can save him and even a second chance is not given tothat person.Therefore
, we can see that society and culture both influence the character‟s identity. In a
book or a novel, it all depends on the author how he portrays a particular character, and how is he
influenced by that era‟s society and the cultures. The identity of that particular character is profoundly
influenced by the ideas of that the contemporary society. On the contrary, it also depends on thatcharacter how he administers himself in that society and abiding by its cultural norms. It may berather laborious for him to adjust and as a consequence; his behaviour may become quite deceptive.May be that behaviour impinges on that character both internally as well as externally. That character
 
 
Goel, Rachit English Assignment
15 January 2009
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not only changes its way of thinking, but also changes his attitude towards his near and dear ones.That character fails to put itself across and then the problem starts.In this assignment, I would consider some famous books and on a large extent; I wouldanalyse
 Nora‟s Character in Henrik Ibsen‟s play
 A Doll’s House
. I would also discuss the similaritiesbetween the circumstances faced by Nora and the protagonist of the resource I would consider except
for „A Doll‟s House‟.
 First off 
all let me take Henrik Ibsen‟s play
 A Doll’s House
. Throughout the play, Henrik Ibsen exemplifies through an interesting narrative that how silly woman achieves self-reliance and alife of her own, by self realisation. This play comes out to be a naturalistic drama that expresses howNora and Torvald, watched by the world, seem to have it all; but the truth is that concurrently, theirlife is barren. Instead of consequential dialogues, Torvald uses debasing pet names with insincere talk to speak about Nora. Long-term treatment of Nora in the vein of a pampered yet unimportant pet,Torvald methodically reveals how men of his era regard women synonymous to irrelevant stuff to beinfatuated and shown off. While the Helmer household may seem to be socially acceptable, themarriage of Torvald and Nora was on its last legs due to the lack of identity, adoration, along withinteraction.This is the main turning point of the play where Nora realises her oppressive situation in thatpatriarchal Victorian society.
She has always been treated as a „doll
-
like‟ figure. She under no
circumstances thought twice before taking any step forward.
 During the time in which the play took  place society frowned upon women asserting themselves. Women were supposed to play a role inwhich they supported their husbands, took care of their children, and made sure everything was perfect around the house. Nora is portrayed as a doll throughout the play until she realizes the truthabout the world she lives in, and cuts herself free.(http://www.essaydepot.com/essayme/1453/index.php
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09-Jan-09
).
In this play, Nora has been depicted as a typical woman of that high class Victorian society.Consequently of all these confines, she could not find out the difference between the rights and
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