A Doll's House

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A 1974 West German television adaptation titled Nora Helmer [ fr] was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role. The strength of this novel is through its range of characters, the regulars plus some new ones, all have their own story to tell. Emilia, Jake, Charlie and Helen Grace herself are all developed further, and the short chapter format briskly moves the story along. a b Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial, Isabel Kershner, New York Times, September 6, 2007 This one kept me reading. Lots of things I liked, a few I didn't, but the story is strong. Just when I started to have doubts, it delivered one of the strongest endings of anything I've read lately! Kaceey and I were lost in the dark, cold and damp musty coulee with Susanne joining us in reading The Dolls House.

Evans, Greg (16 November 2022). "Jessica Chastain Returning To Broadway This Spring In Amy Herzog Adaptation Of Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' ". Deadline . Retrieved 16 January 2023. Wyden, Peter. Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany. ISBN 0-385-47179-3. Kate Bassett (24 May 2009). "The Donmar's new Ibsen isn't so much a clever interpretation as a bit of questionable rewriting". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. a b Walter, McFarlane, James; Jens, Arup (1998). Four Major Plays. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192833871. OCLC 39674082. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Charlotte says, “I have been thinking of thinking. And there is no knowing where it leads to, or when it will end, or where.”Nora tells Torvald that she is leaving him, and in a confrontational scene expresses her sense of betrayal and disillusionment. She says he has never loved her and they have become strangers to each other. She feels betrayed by his response to the scandal involving Krogstad, and she says she must get away to understand herself. She says that she has been treated like a doll to play with for her whole life, first by her father and then by him. Torvald insists that she fulfill her duty as a wife and mother, but Nora says that she has duties to herself that are just as important, and that she cannot be a good mother or wife without learning to be more than a plaything. She reveals that she had expected that he would want to sacrifice his reputation for hers and that she had planned to kill herself to prevent him from doing so. She now realizes that Torvald is not at all the kind of person she had believed him to be and that their marriage has been based on mutual fantasies and misunderstandings. I really like the dual plot threads. As both sisters having their own issues to contend with, this leads to them not fully supporting the other. In 1989, film and stage director Ingmar Bergman staged and published a shortened reworking of the play, now entitled Nora, which entirely omitted the characters of the servants and the children, focusing more on the power struggle between Nora and Torvald. It was widely viewed as downplaying the feminist themes of Ibsen's original. [69] The first staging of it in New York was reviewed by the Times as heightening the play's melodramatic aspects. [70] The Los Angeles Times stated that " Nora shores up A Doll's House in some areas but weakens it in others." [71] The Doll's House' has a few cute and charming moments, but it's mostly about how that dollhouse is remade after decades in the loft, and how the two little girls, Emily and Charlotte, go about it all, and I got bored. There isn't really a plot to speak of; as Homer Simpson would say, "It's just a bunch of stuff that happens." I liked some of the characters, even though the dolls do come across as ungrateful and demanding of their young owners, but I especially do not like Tottie, the main doll. She is meant to be old, wise, gentle and calm, but she comes across as self-righteous, pushy, bossy and unfeeling. Helen’s nephew is MIA and she is desperate to make a connection with him, but even Helen can’t seem to find a clue as to what has become of him since discovering his true heritage.

The Doll’s House by M.J. Arlidge is a 2015 Penguin publication. I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.Detective Helen Grace is an enigma. Three books in and I still can’t say that I definitively know who she is at her core or what's behind that tough exterior. The author sort of strings the reader along by revealing little glimpses, here and there, of Helen's damaging past and alluding to abuse. Which leads me to believe that one of these days, we're going to get a big payoff in the form of her whole heartbreaking story.