Monday, March 25, 2013

alternate ending.(last post)


Torvald and Nora get into an argument about her departure. The fight gets physical as Torvald snaps and grabs Nora’s arm and slaps her face repeatedly.
He then says while slapping her “why…” smack “aren’t…” smack “you…” smack “listening…” smack “to…” smack “me!” now this last slap was so hard they heard it all the way down Ernest Hemingway’s house, the smack has left a hand mark on Nora’s face only known by Ike turner.
Nora then gets up and shouts “hellll naww! Mama bout to fade!” and then proceeds to take 20 minutes to take off her heavy jewelry, putting her hair in a bun, patting down her ‘cheap’ weave, and tells Ms. Linde to hold her ‘earrangs’. She then talks smack for about 30 more minutes, then never steps up to fight Helmer.
Ms. Linde gets mad at Nora and throws her earrings at the ground and starts stomping while saying “you ain’t gon’ do nothin.” Her stomping turns into twerking as she repeats “you ain’t gon’ do nothin!” She sees this, scoffs, an then says “at least I got a husband to twerk fo’!”
As she says this the entire cast of Wild N’ Out come out of nowhere and say “ohhhhh!!!danggg son. She wilin’.” This then continues to a whole debacle of a ‘stack session’ if you will.
 Suddenly after the ‘stack session’, there’s music in the background. It’s sounds like electronics and with a very loud bass. Suddenly they’re hearing “Con los terroristas!” and a man dancing out of nowhere. They start staring out of sheer confusion. And as soon as the bass drops, everything just goes crazy, there’s superheroes there and a several guys in different animal suits dougieing a dog doing flips, Betty White doing cartwheels and other crazy things.
And then a loud noise came out of nowhere, she opened her eyes and took a long at her surroundings. It turns out that she’s been in a coma for years and is in the hospital. It turns out that she’s been living in a Limbo like state and the only way out is to hear the Harlem shake song. Her whole life has been based around the lie that she’s married and has kids, even though her life is nothing like that. Her two kids died at birth and she treats two dolls like her kids to cope with the fact that she never have had any kids.  Her father has been ever since she was a little girl neglected her and died from working too much and not handing the stress, which explains how she wanted to save Torvald from the same fate and so she can get some attention. Torvald isn't real, he’s an imaginary character whom she created to have the father she never had. The people weren't real, they were all delusions, different personalities she created while she was asleep. Krogstad is herself when she falls into deception and greed, this version will do anything to succeed, even though it means cheating someone, this is her bad side, which is why she sees herself in Krogstad. Dr. Rank is herself when her in the future the one who’s dying and wants to die without regrets, this side will direct her differently and therefore altering her life in some ways to fulfill some memories. Ms. Linde reminds her of her normal self, the self who wasn't lucky and had to endure hardships in order to survive. The characters were a different version of herself, she was the only obstacle she faced in order to go find herself.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Act two


The second act of this play really emphasized the conflict in this story. I felt that the author thought I was stupid and needed to explain the seriousness of Nora’s problem over and over and over again. When Nora says “Something glorious is about to happen” when she’s referring to her dire situation and how horrible it’ll be when Helmer will read it and how he’ll be shamed and she’ll kill herself because she doesn't want to deal with the consequences of her actions, even though this was explained throughout the whole first and second act. My favorite character in this play is Krogstad. Krogstad is too manipulative for Nora, like a girl from bad girls club. He just turns his situation towards Nora to make sure that if he goes down she’ll go down with him. Even when he's fired he's unperturbed because he knows what's going to happen.
My least favorite character is Nora, for obvious reasons. She flirts with Dr. Rank while she’s with Helmer, she makes irrational decisions, she’s basically a ‘trophy wife’ who never questions her husband, and is completely useless as a mother, in conclusion ‘she ratchet’. She's very capricious with Helmer, as to not look suspicious and I'm surprised Helmer hadn't noticed. And when she found out Helmer read the letter, she goes hysterical and threatens to kill herself. Helmer’s just as bad, completely neglecting his wife, workaholic, neglecting his kids, egotistical, prideful and narcissistic. He said this to Nora "It is already known at the Bank that I mean to dismiss Krogstad. Is it to get about now that the new manager has changed his mind at his wife's bidding." This is explaining how he sees Nora or all women to be less than a man. His pride is one of his greatest and worst attributes.
                                                                         
Who’s your favorite character?

Who’s your least favorite character? 

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Myself and Henrik Ibsen

hi, my name is Ali, and i live in Bloomfield, NJ. i liked one author and that was Vladimir Nabokov.


magnificent sideburns
    Henrik Ibsen is the author of 'A Doll's House'. he was born in Norway on March 20, 1828, and died in Oslo in May 23, 1906 at 78. He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of modernism in the theater. His play 'A doll's house" is the world's most performed play. he is known as one of the best playwrights,   comparable to Shakespeare. his work influenced  
such as George Bernard ShawOscar WildeArthur MillerJames Joyce, and Eugene O'Neill
    a doll house might be the main characters toy, and this said toy caused a lot of hoopla within the main characters family. a doll house could be a metaphor for a child controlling the dolls and creating a story with the dolls. if that happens i am not going to enjoy the story. the author could've related to the dollhouse, it could've been a family heirloom, or it was very close to him. or he made it up because it goes along with the story. the themes of this story are the following: Marrige, Women, men, home, reputation, love, lies, and money.