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LINK! https://www.jstor.org/stable/462329 Study and annotation…
LINK!
https://www.jstor.org/stable/462329
Study and annotation help. Mark in your text or make notes in a notebook: where do you find the answers to these questions? If you are using a notebook, be sure to write the Act number, scene number and line number or page number.Instead of taking a picture of your annotations, this time write the answers to the following questions and include the Act, scene and line number where you found the answer.
Act I
1. From the beginning of Act I, Torvald calls Nora several pet names. What do these names suggest about Torvald’s perception of his wife and his marriage?
2. What might be the link between Nora’s “contraband” macaroons and her “huge desire to say – to hell and be
damned?”
3. What crime has Nora committed?
4. Mark where you can see Nora’s motives for the crime. Do Nora’s motives for committing the crime excuse her in some way?
Act II
5. Some histories of the tarantella dance explain that it is used to fight off the venomous effects of a spider bite.
Other interpretations suggest it represents a woman’s frustration in oppression. Which of these explanations best fits Nora’s violent practice at the end of Act II? Might both apply? Explain.
Act III
6. Mark the place where Dr. Rank suggests Nora should go to the next masquerade dressed as “Charmed Life,” and that she should dress “just as she looks every day.” What is the implication about Nora’s daily life? Is it charmed? Or is the charm a masquerade? Explain.
7. Make notes about the irony in Torvald’s accusation that Nora has played with him “like a puppet.”
8. The last sound the audience hears is the door slamming shut after Nora’s departure. Make notes about the theatrical, literary, and historical significance of this stage device.
Discuss A Doll’s House, specifically the idea that it is a “problem” play. Oxfordreference.com defines “problem play” as “a play which examines a specific social or political problem with the aim of igniting public debate.”
What is the problem explored in A Doll’s House? Can we as 21st Century readers and viewers identify closely with the problem(s) and issues the play brings forth? How so?
Be sure you discuss these prompts in specific terms. Quote from the play to support your assertions.
