The Function of Different Settings in A Dolls House and...

The Function of Different Settings in A Dolls House and Twelfth Night The setting comparison and deliberation in this essay is between Henric Ibsens A Dolls House and William Shakespeares Twelfth Night. A Dolls House deals with the social life and duty, the womans proper place and role within the family and the society. Twelfth Night is about illusion, deception, disguises, madness, and the extraordinary things that love will cause us to do and to see. The plot of the Twelfth Night takes place in Illyria, the unreal, fairy-land, the land of illusions and dreams. The beauty and the lighthearted atmosphere of Illyria influence the characters of the play. Orsino, Duke of Illyria, doesnt care about his†¦show more content†¦Only at the end of the third act the noticeable change in Noras behavior shows us the emancipation of women in the modern period, the change in their status and rights in the society. In both plays music is very important. Listening to the songs, Orsino enjoys the situation of being in love with Olivia. He doesnt realize that he is in love with love and not with her. This is why he needs music. It sustains and calms down his stormy emotions, helps him to overcome the pain of unshared love. In A Dolls house the Tarantella symbolizes Noras agitation at her struggle with Krogstad and with her husband. The piano with its black and white keys symbolizes the contrasts in the play (between Nora and Mrs. Linden, Nora and Torvald, changing in Noras behavior between the first and the third acts). Songs, tarantella, piano and the bell rings -- all together are designated to brake tension throughout the play. The doors are also the very important part of the setting in A Dolls House. They make an illusion of the more rooms in the house and give the ides of the positive and negative issues in the play. Nora enters and exits through the same door. This is a foreshadowing to the end of the third act, where she exits from the house and Torvalds life through the same door she has entered them before. When she goes to the door of Torvalds study and listens, it points to the gap in their relationship and to the lack