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Annotated Biography

Ferguson, Robert, and Henrik Ibsen: A new Biography, London: Cohen, 1996

This book was published in 1996 by an Englishman called Robert Ferguson. Robert

hailed from the city of blackpoll in the northwest England. In this book, the writer writes

biography of Ibsen. He launched the book at the national theater in the town of Oslo where he

had moved to after completing his university education in London. In this book, Ferguson is

trying to look deeply at Ibsen and his reputation. Whereby Ferguson permits a kind of vanity, his

uncompromising egoism, the touchiness of Ibsen and the instability temperament he possessed.

Ferguson present his biography on Ibsen differently whereby he does have much understanding

for Ibsen's rage with the Norwegians and Swede. In this book the writer tries to outline the

literary works of Ibsen, the theme Ibsen highlighted the plots and structures of his works. In this

book, it is divided into two parts where part one has a span from 1-11 then part two has chapters

from 12-21.

Hardwick, Elizabeth. Seduction and Betrayal. New York: Vintage, 1975

Elizabeth Hardwick is a novelist and an essayist who is considered as one of the most

brilliant writers in the American history. With his book the seduction and betrayal being the top

rated book which made Elizabeth famous as a result it leads her to consider the careers of women

writer as well as significant question of the presence of the female writer in the literature world.
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In this book, the seduction and betrayal the author try to portray the reckoning relationship

between men and women, women and writing and she further considers the aspect of writing and

life. In this book, the writer gives the outline on how the women are suffering from the betrayal

of men. Whereby he gives various circumstances, the females are humiliated by people. As a

result, this book acts as a limelight for the liberation of women from the male sexual and moral

tyranny. As a result they gain the humanitarian at the expense of literature.

Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House. In Four Great Plays by Ibsen. New York: Bantam,

1984

A doll's house that was composed by Henrik Ibsen is a play that talks about a woman who

is humiliated by the society and she come to realize that she is not worth to be given credit for

anything good. Her whole life was handled like a tiny doll, too flimsy, too delicate to be troubled

with real concern. That woman in the play was a mom, wife and a homemaker. She was only

entitled to running his home, raising the kids and looking beautiful. As a result, a woman was not

considered as a human being. At this time men were seen as the dominant gender whereby they

provided for the whole family, he was the only person to make important decisions in the house

and was the head of the household. Further, at this time, a woman was considered as no woman

if she does have a man. Where in this case this lady does have man whereby she is poor who has

lost his soul who lacked everything necessary for acquiring a husband.

Mitchell, Hayley R.ed.Readings in A Doll's House, Westport, Conn: Greenhaven,

1999

This is a play that is based on the marriage norms whereby the play starts with Nora

Helmer who lives happily with his husband Torvald who was a lawyer. They were privileged to
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have three kids. Unfortunately, Nora had a secret to which he is not at the state of revealing to his

husband. When Torvald was sick, Nora borrowed some amount of money from his old friend

whereby she forged the signature of his father to act as a guarantor. But when the plays go on

there is old friend called Linda who wanted his husband to give her a position in the bank.

Unfortunately, if he gives him the position, Krogstad was to loss the job. Thus as the play

continues we see Krogstad going to Nora and threatened her that he would reveal the secret to

his husband. Nora was in despair, and at last, he realized that her marriage is not what she

thought it was. As a result, she decided to go into the world and bring herself up, and she was

forced to walk out of his marriage

Templeton, Joan. Ibsen's Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Joan is a renowned English professor from the University of Island University. This book

is one of the noted Ibsen scholar that was published widely in the modern dramatists. This book

on Ibsen's women is a full study of the lifestyle of women that focus in the Ibsen's workings and

their connection to the ladies in the development and the career of the scriptwriter. Within this

critical reading of the Ibsen manuals, she examines the initial authorizations, for instance, the

reports and the private papers. Through his analysis, Joan realized that she had some crucial

figure in his life, for example, his family that influenced the compelling and inspirational figures

she created. She further examines that impact of the first plays and the effects on the succeeding

works, as a result she generates some prevailing exemplars in Ibsen's general representation of

women

Cover Report
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In this research paper, I used scholarly publication which was peer reviewed. As a result,

these reference had a higher level of quality mechanism. When I was selecting the best quality

articles for this paper I considered how the writer reported his work through the methodology; I

checked whether the references were are presented correctly with the acknowledgment of the

existing body. Further, I tested the readability of the publication. In finding this references, I used

the following procedure in accessing the databases of the sources using the computer library.

To access the database on the library website. I first went to the library homepage where I

got to the free library access portal. Then moved on to the research part where I located the

yellow bar at the top of the page. Then proceeded to the research page, whereby it is arranged as

per the materials one is looking for which the research section includes the research subject, the

library departments, different catalogs and databases of the articles searched for. Then I moved

down to database section onto which it opens a window that instructs you to identify the

materials and resources you are looking for. At the bottom of that page, there is an alphabetic

order of the database which gives you a direction to which article that you are looking for can be

accessed. Then I selected the general process whereby it automatically opened the search page of

this page database. Then a search box opens where I was able to write the research topic that I

was researching for. After that, I was able to retrieve the article that is scholarly written.

Given a secondary source is a source that provides something more about the primary

source. The secondary sources always involve the comments, interpretations, and discussion of

the original material, which is termed as the second-hand information. They usually include the

biographies, histories, newspapers and literary critic of a book art and theater reviews. In this

paper I was writing about the Doll's house whereby I used the book written by Ferguson as a

secondary resource in this book the writer was addressing the biography of Ibsen whereby in this
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book Ferguson was trying to look deeply at Ibsen and his reputation. Whereby Ferguson permits

a kind of vanity, his uncompromising egoism, the touchiness of Ibsen and the instability

temperament he possessed. Ferguson present his biography on Ibsen differently whereby he does

have much understanding for Ibsen's rage with the Norwegian and Swedes.In this book the writer

tries to outline the literary works of Ibsen, the theme Ibsen highlighted the plots and structures of

his works.

From the paper, I have realized that Ibsen was born in Norway in 1862.He was a hero in

Norway given he had written some famous works, for instance, the brand, the doll's house, and

the Hedda Gabler.The doll's house was one of the outstanding jobs that heightened the skills of

Ibsen. It is also revealed that since from the childhood Ibsen was a comic genius. Whereby at the

earlier age of 6 years he was able to write his first play called Catalina. Besides the author had a

unique personal life in that he had a long and seemingly happy marriage with his fierce Susannah

Dave Thoresen.They wedded back in 1857, and they welcomed their first kid the following year

as compared to other writers.