A Psychoanalytical Perspective of a Dolls House - 972 Words

A Psychoanalytical Perspective of a Doll’s House Justin Doughman Composition II/Literature South University Online A Psychoanalytical Perspective of â€Å"A Doll’s House† Nora Helmer is a young mother of three and an obedient house wife in, â€Å"A Doll’s House,† a play write written by Henrik Ibsen. Using the psychological perspective to dig deeper into Nora’s subconscious the reader finds that Nora yearns to be an independent women, free to make important choices of her own, because she has never been given the option to make real important choices throughout her life. When she lived with her father she just tried to appease him and when she married Mr. Helmer she found†¦show more content†¦I should have seen it coming. Your father’s shifty nature—be quiet!—your father’s shifty nature has come out in you. (Ibsen, 2011, Act, 2 p. 589). Maybe this was another reason he never gave Nora any reasonability, because he never rely trusted her. This is the point that Nora decides she was done being the submissive one. After all she had done in order to save her husband’s life he was calling her featherbrained and unfit to be around her own children. This is the point when Nora decides that she would be better off trying to grow up on her own. And this is where Mr. Helmer becomes the submissive one, perhaps for the first time in his life, begging Nora not to leave. Henrik Ibsen does a great job connecting with the playwright, characters, and f the audience’s innermost desires, fillings and emotions. â€Å"A Doll’s House† seemed to be a playwright that focused on women’s desires in the nineteenth century. While she seemed to be this selfish, arrogant, immature women that only cared about money. It turned out that the whole time she was just suppressing her desires to be an independent woman. Which ultimate cost her, her marriage. . - References Ibsen, H. (2011). A doll’s house. In D.L. Pike and A.M. Acosta’s (Eds.) Literature: A world of writing stories, poems, plays, and essays [VitalSource digital version] (pp. 555-589). Boston, MA: Pearson LearningShow MoreRelatedchild development essay5345 Words   |  22 Pages2009).Many developmental psychologists view attachment as the special relationships between infants and caregivers, and an important building block for later relationships and adult personality ( LaFreniere 1998). Bowiby’s theory retains the psychoanalytical idea that the quality of attachment to the caregiver has profound implications for the child’s feelings of security and capacity for trusting relationships. Bowlby believed that the human infant is endowed with a set of built-in behaviours thatRead MoreUnit 1 Qcf Level 3 Essay9585 Words   |  39 Pagessimple sequence of events and follow simple instructions. Between the ages of 5 and 7 they become more curious and want to learn about the world around them. The focus however is still quite self-centred, is unable to see the world from a different perspective. They develop interest in reading for themselves and will start writing letters, which develops into being able to read simple books. Their concentration becomes much longer. They start to work with ordering things in sequence from smallest to biggest