The movie and the play "A Doll's House"

In the movie version of “A Dolls house,” The film director changes the way both Nora and Torvald are portrayed. In the movie Nora is dressed very well. She looks as though she is from a rich family and even her house is very rich and looks luxurious. The play doesn’t describe the same seen as it showed in the movie clip. The house in the movie clip looks incredibly rich whereas in the book it seems as though Nora and Torvald are in financial trouble. She also has her hair very well done and looks as though she is from a wealthy class. In the movie clip Nora is seen as being incredibly greedy. It seems as though the only thing she wants from her husband is money. It’s all she asks him for even for Christmas. The movie didn’t tell the viewers why Nora wanted the money. Just from the movie you would get the impression that she is very money hungry. In the book though she tells her friend Mrs. Linde the truth behind all of the money she asks for. The truth is her husband had to get help because he was dying. She realized that her husband was to prideful to borrow money from the bank so she took it into her own hands in order to try to get the money to save her husband although he believes that she borrowed it from her father. Another character that is portrayed differently in the movie as oppose to the actual play itself is Torvald. In the book I pictured Torvald to be a young looking man muscular and maybe a little bit childish looking. Although in the movie it portrayed him as an older man and he seemed a lot more mature than I had pictured him as. In the play he playfully talks with his wife Nora this action makes me see him as a much younger guy. The movie shows him to be older more mature and seems a lot more responsible than I had originally thought. In the movie Torvald is portrayed as an older rich business man. He seems to be relatively rich with his nice house and well dressed servants. He also talks very articulate in the movie, whereas in the play when he talked I pictured a much younger version of the man. In the play I pictured two young people talking in a dialogue but in fact I saw two older people who talk very maturely to each other. In the play the man and the women see as though they are incredibly in love and that they cant get enough of each other but in the movie it seems as though all of Nora’s love and desire for her husband is based around money. It doesn’t really make sense to me. Also in the book Nora seems a lot more secretive about the money than it shows in the movie. In the movie she’s almost begging him to give her money. It’s like it’s the only thing she cares about and she doesn’t even mention the children during the little movie clip she mostly just talks about money. It makes her out to be a very greedy person. Also the movie clip doesn’t show her interaction with her old friend Mrs. Linde. In the play this was a really strong part and gave the play a lot of meaning. Without this part in the movie it leaves the movie open for a lot of speculation and criticism. The movie portrays both characters differently compared to what the play shows them as. The movie leaves out a lot of parts that actually allow the play to come together in the book but without it in the movie it just doesn’t make any sense. If the movie maybe went on a little bit longer it would show more of the play and maybe it would allow us to understand the movie as oppose to the actual play more. The movie doesn’t live up to the writing of the play and it often doesn’t connect to the way the play is written. It also looks as though the play and the movie where both made in completely different time zones.

"The Accident"

In “The Accident,” by Erica Funkhouser, Funkhouser suggests that the husband is having an affair with the women’s husband and the woman has just come to the realization that this is going on. Funkhouser uses descriptions, reactions, and other subtle ways to suggest the affair is going on.

In the first part of the poem, Erica Funkhouser subtly suggests that there may be ahint of something going on but she doesn’t completely give it away. “She heard the hasty scraping of sole and heel/ against the clipped turf of the doormat;/ than the neighbor rushed in. (Line 1-3)” This quote is one of the first ways Erica Funkhouser shows that this is no ordinary situation. As the neighbor comes in she doesn’t knock or even say hello. “She slid a chair from underneath the kitchen table and sat down,/ her long legs straight in front of her /like a ladder to a different world, (Lines 16-19)” This quote is interesting, it shows that the wife thinks as though the neighbor is completely different world to her, like she has no way of comprehending the neighbor.

In the second part of the poem, Funkhouser shows us that the neighbor almost gave up the secret of the affair. “It was when the neighbor answered “yes”/ to a question the women’s husband had not yet asked/ that the women finally understood.(line 20-24)” This quote shows that the speaker finally sees what is actually going on in the picture. She can see that there is an unspoken connection between the neighbor and the husband. “How many times had they eaten together,/ the women watching wondered. Enough. (lines26,27) This quote in it self gives away the fact that the speaker knows the husband and the neighbors are having an affair. She knows they have eaten together many times before.

In the third and final section of the poem the speaker raps up her assumption. “She had never seen him do it like this before two-handed,/ He always liked to show off /by breaking the eggs with one hand. (Lines 40,41)” It shows that today for some reason the husband wasn’t showing off. This action makes you wonder what is going on in this scene. “This evening his hands were trembling/ as he cracked the eggs on the skillet’s rim,(Line 44-47)” This is the last way that the speaker hints the husband is having an affair. It shows that he was obviously shaken up at something that had happened earlier that day. It may have been the wife walking in on the neighbor and the husband having the affair.

In conclusion, in “The Accident,” by Erica Funkhouser, Funkhouser suggests that the husband is cheating on his wife with the neighbor. Funkhouser suggests this in subtle ways using different quotes and certain lines to show the imagery in the poem.