Which themes of ibsen's a doll's house are reflected in this excerpt from act 1 of the play? helmer: don't disturb me. (a little later, he opens the door and looks into the room, pen in hand.) bought, did you say? all these things? has my little spendthrift been wasting money again? nora: yes but, torvald, this year we really can let ourselves go a little. this is the first christmas that we have not needed to economise. obedience and controlthe importance of moneydeceptionappearance versus realitybreakdown of marriage

The themes of Ibsen's “A Doll's House” which are reflected in the above excerpt from Act 1 of the play are:

Obedience and control  

the importance of money

In the first act of “A Doll's House,” Henry Ibsen introduces the main characters of the play and gives a gist of their attitude towards things. Nora has been presented as a housewife who wants to give all the pleasures to her family and herself but is unable to do so because of the lack of money. She feels very excited to buy presents for her children and for the family during Christmas. Though they lack money, still she buys things through credit. Her husband Torvald asks her not to spend too much and calls her a spendthrift.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

if you don't mind posting the paragraph so i could read it that would a lot. (;