Henrik Ibseb's A Doll's House: Themes and Elements of Style: A Guide to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, #2
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Following the first book on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House which examined the PLOT of the playand the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE in the play. This allows the critic of the playto have a comprehensive view of what the play is about, how it is crafted, who the major characters are and what kind of style the playwright adopts. This should prepare any student of Henrik ibsen in general or of this play and the rebel 19th century drama in particular, to answer any questions about the writer, his world view and his general philosophy as expressed through his writing. A final book ANSWERING CONTEXT AND ESSAY QUESTIONS based on A Doll's House is recommended for any reader who desires to present answers in the expected way and to develop a critical perspective that is desired especially in college.
Jorges P. Lopez
Jorges P. Lopez has been teaching Literature in high schools in Kenya and Communication at The Cooperative University in Nairobi. He has been writing Literary Criticism for more than fifteen years and fiction for just over ten years. He has contributed significantly to the perspective of teaching English as a Second Language in high school and to Communication Skills at the college level. He has developed humorous novellas in the Jimmy Karda Diaries Series for ages 9 to 13 which make it easier for learners of English to learn the language and the St. Maryan Seven Series for ages 13 to 16 which challenge them to improve spoken and written language. His interests in writing also spill into Poetry, Drama and Literary Fiction. He has written literary criticism books on Henrik Ibsen, Margaret Ogola, Bertolt Brecht, John Steinbeck, John Lara, Adipo Sidang' and many others.
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Henrik Ibseb's A Doll's House - Jorges P. Lopez
THEMES
What is a theme? All literary writers write to communicate themes, that is, their thoughts or opinions on certain debatable issues. Themes are controversial ideas about life about which you can have a discussion with somebody because there are no hard rules about how these issues should be handled. Think about modern arguments about devolution and the senate and Governors and County governments in Kenya today. When these ideas were muted, they seemed rosy things that would immediately transform our country into a modern Roman Empire. These ideas have raised controversies because government and leadership are controversial. Anybody can give their opinions for or against them. That is why they are themes.
A theme can be seen as an idea for which, if somebody asked you for your opinion, you would be very ready to say something; like we were very ready to try devolution. But a minute later, you will feel tempted to add something else, possibly even to contradict yourself. With a theme, you can never have a decisive debate unless you are one of those stubborn people with whom no one can hold a discussion. Leadership as a theme for example has held people in awe since the times of the Egyptian pharaohs, the great Chinese wall and beyond. People are still discussing its nature, going through the motions of refining it (and often doing worse damage), trying to decide which is the best way to lead in order to be fair to all. But you can ask again, does fairness or justice exist? Or is it an ideal in the minds of philosophers?
What is one good way to go about themes in a literature? How can you go about themes on your own to be sure that you determine or you see what you are expected to see? One helpful thing you can do is to see a theme from its possibilities. If a theme is an opinion, then it must be based on something, some idea that can be captured in one or two words. That idea can be called a subject. There are as many subjects as you can care to name; all those things that control how the world goes about its business from day to day; all those ideas for which it is possible to give an opinion. These are subjects. While a subject can be captured in a single word or two – science, education, war, marriage, childhood, technology, leadership, etc. (probably even Governorship or Senatorship in Kenya!) – a theme can only be captured through a statement. This is because a theme is a person’s considered opinion about a subject. Of science one could say science is a mirage that pretends to make life easier while actually making it more difficult. Of marriage, like Benjamin Disraeli, one could say every woman should marry, but no man. These are opinions.
In literature, themes are writer’s opinions about subjects especially the most readily debatable subjects - ones which have been debated over time. Many writers discuss their opinions on subjects which are very close to people’s hearts, subjects which are with us from day to day. For many of these subjects, it is possible to have several opinions, and especially with wide subjects which touch several areas of people’s lives. The totality of a writer’s opinions on a certain subject can be seen as that writer’s theme(s). With such wide subjects, it is possible to write several statements which capture what a writer thinks to form a paragraph or a page or even more. This can be seen as a discussion of that theme in a work of literature. What writers do in a play such as A Doll’s House is to think carefully about their opinions on given subjects, then create a story that demonstrates those opinions in more or less the same way that we choose a narrative carefully in Oral Literature when we want to teach about say, greed, or treachery. The difference is that in a play, the playwright creates characters who are more or less like us and who encounter events like the ones we encounter every day. Ours as literature students is to consider the story