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The Function of Different Settings in H Ibsen8217s A Dolls House and Shakespeare8217s 8220Twelfth Night8221

end of the third act the noticeable change in Nora's 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 doesn’t 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 Doll’s house” the Tarantella symbolizes Nora’s 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 Nora's 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 Doll's 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 Torvald’s life through the same door she has entered them before. When she goes to the door of Torvald’s study and listens, it points to the gap in their relationship and to the lack of understanding between them. Dr. Rank also knocks before entering Helmer’s room. The territory of each one in the house is accurately defined. On the one hand, Torvald locks the door when he confronts Nora, because he wants to keep her forgery in secret and doesn't want it to come out of the house. On the other hand, doors are the ones that keep him away from revealing the secret of Nora’s crime. In the “Twelfth Night̶...

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