A Doll House Controversy

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The play A Doll House sparked a lot of controversy on whether it was a play aimed at women’s rights. Henrik Ibsen (March 20, 1828- May 23, 1906), the author of the play A Doll House, rejects the thought of the play correlating with women’s rights. Joan Templeton argues in the favor of Ibsen on his stand on the play not being about female rights. As much as Ibsen and Joan might deny the fact that it has nothing to do with female rights, I disagree with that logic. I think it has some feministic aspects to it.

The Doll House Backlash: Criticism, Feminism and Ibsen is a well written by Joan Templeton (1942), the article argues in favor of Ibsen about not making the play A Doll house about female rights. The article seems to agree with Ibsen as it shows Ibsen stating that “I thank you for the toast, but …show more content…

My task has been the description of humanity… Henrik Ibsen (1)

This shows that Ibsen denies his play being about female rights, but he also goes on to state that the play’s whole purpose is not about female rights. This contradicts the argument of Joan arguing for the facts that the play has nothing to do with women rights, while the author himself insinuates that there are indeed some feministic approaches in the play.

The play A Doll House sure does have a lot of feministic views in it. Joan is false with his argument. She makes it seem the play had no feministic views on it. I really liked the play in general, since I can correlate to my personal life. I have witnessed a lot of gender stereotypes throughout my life since my country seem to stereotype gender roles. The play in my option has a lot of feministic theme to it. I also agree with Ibsen on also the play being human behavior, since Nora emulates a lot of human

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