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A Doll's House Vs Anthony
Many works of literature in the form of books and plays don’t usually get a big screen adaptation. However, A Doll’s House has been blessed to have two major adaptations as well as some minor ones. Of the two major ones, the one that is viewed as superior is known as the Anthony Hopkins version. This is of course because the biggest actor in the production was Anthony Hopkins so it is easy to label this version the Anthony Hopkins version. This version is superior because it gives the character’s better representation and also because the production is better because it is more recent. In the movie, Nora is portrayed as very dynamic character, the most dynamic in the entire story. In the start of the movie, she is a mother and wife, and she isn’t seen as a powerful woman. Instead, she makes herself seem small, and less than her husband by the way she acts around him. She begs him for money, for them to buy gifts for Christmas, among other things. Overall, she isn’t a character who does anything on her own. She hides in her husband’s shadow and seems to be comfortable there. She may have been viewed as sympathetic at the start of the film, but not at the end, which makes her character dynamic. …show more content…
This is what ultimately caused her shift in personality. She became more relentless and self-centered. Not in an egotistical way, but in a way that she put herself and her needs above any others, which isn’t what she was doing before. She realized that she no longer wanted to be a wife, or a mother. In the final scene of the film, she confesses to her husband that she is leaving him and their kids to be her own person in the city away from them. This is where she became no longer

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