This paper focus on the analysis of female characters in social problem play『A Doll’s House』by Henrik Ibsen in the settings of 19th century society. The research of female’s self-awakening issue in 19th century is done through analyzing the female characters in 『A Doll’s House』. From ancient time t...
This paper focus on the analysis of female characters in social problem play『A Doll’s House』by Henrik Ibsen in the settings of 19th century society. The research of female’s self-awakening issue in 19th century is done through analyzing the female characters in 『A Doll’s House』. From ancient time to present, female issue remains realistic issue in a society. Through analysis of discussions and behaviors between characters Nora and Mrs Linde in 『A Doll’s House』, this paper will talk about the social issue reflected by his social problem play. Play is an element of social cultures. Ibsen's social problem play has strong foresight and advancement. It is impendent and essential to research on female’s self-awakening issue in this paper since there are special transition of social environment and social cultural background in 19th century. There is solid connection between the female characters’ behavioral and psychological change presented by Ibsen’s social problem play and the overall social environment in19th century. Doing research on 『A Doll’s House』 is equivalent to research on the social customs and culture in 19th century. Only with understanding of the play’s social background, we can learn better about the female self-awakening issue which is represented in Ibsen’s 『A Doll’s House』. This paper reveals that Ibsen raised several questions by studying his literature and materials. First, what is the social status of females in Bourgeois families? Females like Nora are only subsidiaries in male-dominate society such as Helmer society. These females are financially and social dependent, therefore they cannot obtain equal status with men. But this inequality happens when female misunderstand that they gained equality through love. This is Ibsen’s purpose of creation at the deeper level. Second, it criticized about male privilege in male-dominant society. Ibsen mainly revealed the fact that males are more hypocrite caprice than females. Males only love their wives when they feel their dignity and privilege are not threatened. Vince versa, they would find various of excuses to avoid their responsibility, they would break their promises of protecting their wife. Male would shift his character back to the person who love their wives. Third question is about females’ career. In 1885, Ibsen did a speech to announce that he will reform the society by changing females’ role in the society. Females like Nora need to identify themselves then consider how they can survive without males’ help in this world. Therefore 『A Doll’s House』 includes Ibsen’s thinking about females’ career. Ibsen reveals dark society facts in 『A Doll’s House』 and his other similar plays. But he placed the hope of world transformation on minorities who have rebellious spirit. Also Ibsen only raised problems without giving specific solutions. Being a capitalist, his attitude is relevant to the pessimism within capitalism. Even though Ibsen is a great play writer, he is still in capitalist class and inevitably hold pessimism. He cannot find solutions because he can not see the decline of capitalism. Besides, we can figure out that Ibsen not only depict personalities with widely accepted symbolism and hidden symbolism. Although this dual-symbolism partially rely on artistic expression technique, it has close connection with Ibsen’s self-reflection, artistic reflection, and spiritual reflection. Triple reflection make Ibsen’s work have dual-symbolism and enhanced the artistic standards of his work. Therefore, at this level it is helpful for us to understand the works relevant to Ibsen’s Philosophy of life. Just like the characters he created, in Ibsen’s philosophy there are realism, tendency of individualism, and most accurately, self reflection. Ibsen insists on self reflection and set Life's Poeticizing as final goal. Eventually Ibsen poetized the essence of play instead of regard play as a tool to reveal social problems and criticize reality. He used play to reach on the deep structure of human nature and wrote human being’s personality and destiny. This idea is advanced in his era and important for us to research on the relationship between play and life.
This paper focus on the analysis of female characters in social problem play『A Doll’s House』by Henrik Ibsen in the settings of 19th century society. The research of female’s self-awakening issue in 19th century is done through analyzing the female characters in 『A Doll’s House』. From ancient time to present, female issue remains realistic issue in a society. Through analysis of discussions and behaviors between characters Nora and Mrs Linde in 『A Doll’s House』, this paper will talk about the social issue reflected by his social problem play. Play is an element of social cultures. Ibsen's social problem play has strong foresight and advancement. It is impendent and essential to research on female’s self-awakening issue in this paper since there are special transition of social environment and social cultural background in 19th century. There is solid connection between the female characters’ behavioral and psychological change presented by Ibsen’s social problem play and the overall social environment in19th century. Doing research on 『A Doll’s House』 is equivalent to research on the social customs and culture in 19th century. Only with understanding of the play’s social background, we can learn better about the female self-awakening issue which is represented in Ibsen’s 『A Doll’s House』. This paper reveals that Ibsen raised several questions by studying his literature and materials. First, what is the social status of females in Bourgeois families? Females like Nora are only subsidiaries in male-dominate society such as Helmer society. These females are financially and social dependent, therefore they cannot obtain equal status with men. But this inequality happens when female misunderstand that they gained equality through love. This is Ibsen’s purpose of creation at the deeper level. Second, it criticized about male privilege in male-dominant society. Ibsen mainly revealed the fact that males are more hypocrite caprice than females. Males only love their wives when they feel their dignity and privilege are not threatened. Vince versa, they would find various of excuses to avoid their responsibility, they would break their promises of protecting their wife. Male would shift his character back to the person who love their wives. Third question is about females’ career. In 1885, Ibsen did a speech to announce that he will reform the society by changing females’ role in the society. Females like Nora need to identify themselves then consider how they can survive without males’ help in this world. Therefore 『A Doll’s House』 includes Ibsen’s thinking about females’ career. Ibsen reveals dark society facts in 『A Doll’s House』 and his other similar plays. But he placed the hope of world transformation on minorities who have rebellious spirit. Also Ibsen only raised problems without giving specific solutions. Being a capitalist, his attitude is relevant to the pessimism within capitalism. Even though Ibsen is a great play writer, he is still in capitalist class and inevitably hold pessimism. He cannot find solutions because he can not see the decline of capitalism. Besides, we can figure out that Ibsen not only depict personalities with widely accepted symbolism and hidden symbolism. Although this dual-symbolism partially rely on artistic expression technique, it has close connection with Ibsen’s self-reflection, artistic reflection, and spiritual reflection. Triple reflection make Ibsen’s work have dual-symbolism and enhanced the artistic standards of his work. Therefore, at this level it is helpful for us to understand the works relevant to Ibsen’s Philosophy of life. Just like the characters he created, in Ibsen’s philosophy there are realism, tendency of individualism, and most accurately, self reflection. Ibsen insists on self reflection and set Life's Poeticizing as final goal. Eventually Ibsen poetized the essence of play instead of regard play as a tool to reveal social problems and criticize reality. He used play to reach on the deep structure of human nature and wrote human being’s personality and destiny. This idea is advanced in his era and important for us to research on the relationship between play and life.
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연극학과 연극영상미디어학과
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2017
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