A Doll’s House: a victorian or a present-day toy?
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1022
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i10.309
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i10.309
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Pellicer Ortín, SilviaDate
2009Abstract
Henrik Ibsen’s path-breaking play A Doll’s House (1879) has been adapted in many occasions. The filmic version made by David Thacker in 1992 has been one of the most recent and relevant adaptations. The main purpose of this article is in the first place, to show how this film reflects Victorian society as regards women’s situation and family life from a historical perspective. Secondly, I will define and apply the concepts of the private and public spheres to the text from the perspective of materialist feminism. Finally, my intention is to examine how far the events depicted in the film still have significance today and how a text like A Doll’s House can be re-examined from new post-feminist perspectives in order to address contemporary social issues such us women’s situation. La obra de teatro de Henrik Ibsen La Casa de las Muñecas (1879) ha sido adaptada en numerosas ocasiones. Una de lasa versiones fílmicas más recientes e interesantes es la de David Tacker en 1992. El principal o...
Palabra/s clave
Film adaptation
The Woman question
Private and public spheres
Nature vs. culture
Materialist feminism
Post-feminism
Adaptación fílmica
El Debate sobre la mujer
Las Esferas pública y privada
Naturaleza vs. cultura
Feminismo materialista
Post-feminismo