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I am doing Ibsen's A Doll's House for my final assignment inthe Victorian module.  I meant to be reading this with a Feminist critical eye, but I have wondered whether I should be doing more a New Historicist angle.  They are a product of their time and Ibsen was exemplifying how the order was and how it should change.  Plus Torvald might have been an overbearing Svengali figure, but I got the impression that he loved her (though the Fem Crits would argue that he was just as happy to sell her down the river to save his face).  It is also not helping that I am finding Nora just a tinsy wincy bit irritating, so championing her corner might be a bit difficult for me (this is not a criticism of Juliet Stevenson - she plays an excellent Nora).

Still, I don't have to address this for a while.  Just thought I would watch it, whilst my headful of henna was photo-developing - problem is, I haven't dyed my hair since September and a LOT of grey has now poked through. The net result is that I have gone from starting to resemble my mother, to looking like Sideshow Bob.  I am hoping the carrot coppery tones will stop shouting and will calm down after a couple of days, or I'm still gonna look like a carrot in serious trouble.
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I am trying to add some added comparisons to this TH2 Monster. I have used Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper and Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House, but only in passing as I have just Too Much To Right About, Not Enough Space and I have to Pare Back As It is.  Right now, I can truly identify with Perkin Gilman's character going slowly mental because she is confined to barracks. Also I have had to fight off migraine, great, so I am avoiding chocolate and coffee today  :-/


Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper -------> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm

Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House -----------------------------------> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2542/2542-h/2542-h.htm

Alas, if I don't get this sorted by midday Thursday, I will kick it to the kerb.  It is meant to be a Gothic novel and right up my street, but I don't warm to the characters, nor am a keen feminist.  Just not into it.

15:44
I have come to the conclusion that I will never get this right, so I am just going to pare back on the words.  I have to lose 177 words (bringing the essay down to 2,200 - or 2,000 with 10% margin) and just resubmit, knowing that at my present level of education, I cannot significantly turn this around without starting from scratch and even then, I do not have the guarantee that I can do it.  My mistake was not annotating the text in the first place, plus not having an interest in either subject does hamper one.  So, mission ::: lose the wordage.  I am not going to burn myself out on an assignment that I cannot significantly turn round in time - over and out.

20:18
It is done.  Tomorrow is the sticky political essay IN3 (which I didn't totally cock up, but will need a rethink).
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It's been a strange day. I had to act out the part of Nora in A Doll's House but portray it differently than in the book.  Now, I am a bit too long in the tooth to play the coquettish type - but I had to play the Nora character as more domineering part and Steven (God Bless him - gangly 23 year old and so very sweet) had to play the part of Torvald differently and had to portray him as the down-trodden husband. Actually, we didn't do too badly; in fact, with a bit of polish, we may have been able to pull it off - but I am no drama student and I suspect, nor is Steven.

Anyway, I have had to use some of my student loan on yet more books (covers under cut for size).

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen )

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys )

The Book Thief by Mark Zusak )

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