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Essay / A feminist literary position, the roles of women in Henrik...
A feminist literary position, the roles of women in Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House and George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and George Eliot's Middlemarch are based on personal events. experiences. The events that led Ibsen to feel the need to write A Doll's House make his approach to the feminist position a little more unusual compared to other writers. Ibsen shows his realistic style through modern views and tones performed by the characters in this infamous story. In the eyes of viewers, it is the women of A Doll's House who make the film so popular. Nora and Christine give readers a real sense of Ibsen's feminist position. George Eliot expresses his feminist position in Middlemarch in the same way as Ibsen. In Middlemarch, one of the main female characters, Dorothea, wants control over her life and chooses happiness over wealth. These female characters from these well-known works are portrayed in a way that gives readers an idea of the social conditions involving women. A Doll's House (Et dukkehjem in Norwegian) was written in 1879 by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play was controversial when it was first released, as it was extremely critical of 19th-century marriage norms. It follows the journey of the most popular plays until the end, where it ends not with a denouement, but with a discussion. Many people consider it the first true feminist play, but Ibsen denies this. When Ibsen first published it, it was called "A Madman's House", but due to very strong criticism, he changed the title. In this story, Nora is portrayed as a middle-aged housewife with childish mannerisms. Torvald, her husband, calls her childish names like "beautiful songbird" and "my little...... middle of paper ......this for not being known by her real name in her writings fear of not being known. be taken seriously. Eliot's feminist position is illustrated in this novel through the societal conflicts that Dorothea faces on a daily basis. Both writers were criticized by their counterparts, but still managed to construct great works of art.Works CitedIbsen, Henrik. “A doll’s house.” Literature: covers fiction, poetry, drama. 2nd edition Robert DiYanni. New York: McGraw, 2004, 1105-1153Eliot, George. “Middle March. » Bibliomania: free online literature and study guides. Bibliomania. May 12, 2009. Ibsen, Henrik. “A doll’s house.” January 7, 1999. Sparknotes. May 12, 2009. Eliot, George. “Middle March. » Enotes.com. May 12 2009 .