Tag Archives: Doll's House

Ibsen for Character Formation

By Robin Bates | Published: August 3, 2021

Woolf’s “Voyage Out” explores how literature contributes to character formation.

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Alabama Returning Women to Doll’s House

By Robin Bates | Published: May 16, 2019

Friday I’m missing much of the news as I travel across country but managed to hear about Alabama threatening doctors who perform abortions with 99-year prison sentences. Here’s a post I wrote four years ago about how state legislatures are infantilizing women. I managed some optimism then but, with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh now on the […]

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The Abortion Debate & Doll’s House

By Robin Bates | Published: September 21, 2015

Our society’s impasse over abortion is like the impasse in Ibsen’s “Doll’s House” between Thorvald and Nora: he insists on moral absolutes, she resents being infantilized.

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SCOTUS Traps Women in Doll’s House

By Robin Bates | Published: July 3, 2014

The Supreme Court, with its Hobby Lobby decision, is reminiscent of patronizing Torvald Helmer in Ibsen’s “Doll’s House.”

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Lit’s 10 Strongest Female Characters

By Robin Bates | Published: September 9, 2013

Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.

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