Review of A dolls house

       The play dollhouse written by Henrik Ibsen was definitely a drama and nothing less. The main character being Nora the bank managers wife she finds herself in a world of trouble when her world poses itself to come crashing down as she desperately tries to keep a secret she has held from her husband for years. Nora forges her dead fathers signature in order to loan money from her husbands employee, Krogstad and it comes back to bite her when he demands she help him keep his job after Torvald her husband plans on firing him.
        When Nora's world comes crashing down and she decides to leave it shows how much power she really had that she didnt know about. Although she left her children she left them in better hands than she could provide by being the main caretaker and that shows an incredible amount of strength and her being kept down is what I feel the above picture represents which is of a production of the play A dolls house by the production group Micocci. Nora being the tallest one she could easily push back but remained subservient until the end where she decided to stand on her own and live as a human being and not as a play thing for another's amusement. Although this playscript is not modern it still sends a strong message everywhere to women and even men to not be kept down and to learn to stand on their own.
      Another thing that caught my attention in this play was the fraudulence which really just plays to my Criminal justice major. I saw that and immediately knew how much trouble Nora was really facing because even though its not based on modern times its always been wrong in the eyes of the law.

Review of The Misanthrope

   The Misanthrope written by playwright Moliere has been around for hundreds of years and its take on humanity still holds true from the attention seeking to the humble The Misanthrope captures them all in the story of Alceste, a man who believes that everyone has flaws and in turn dislikes most people because of one thing or another. Alceste who speaks his mind quite truthfully runs into trouble by both insulting Orionte's play and supposedly being the author of an illegal book written.
           The trouble, in all honesty, was what interested me the most in this play. As a criminal justice major I find that the way that trouble was handled in The Misanthrope is a bit similar to how it is handled in modern society where the person shows up to court to resolve a dispute and figure out who was actually in the wrong before things go any further. It was also similar in terms of how it is judged which is really by a jury of your peers which is how the courts in the play resolved it. I find that it was spot on right down to the corruption and favoritism.
         The reason I actually chose the picture on this review, which is a picture of The Misanthrope production done by Quintessence Theatre group, was because it had a modern day twist to it and although the play itself is not modern it is still applicable today in terms of people and their attitudes.
        Overall I feel that the thing to walk away with after reading this play script is that people have yet to change and we are still the same as back then.