Name: A Doll's House
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Author: Henrik Johan Ibsen
ISBN: 9781607963998

A Doll's House

Henrik Johan Ibsen

A Doll's House made Henrik Ibsen world famous; the play is still Ibsen's most popular and one of his most acclaimed. Frequently called the first feminist play, A Doll's House is a fierce critique of Victorian society's conduct toward women. The play revolves around the lives of Nora and Torvald Helmer. Nora is treated as a juvenile, foolish woman by her husband. In reality Nora has been secretly working odd jobs to pay back the money she borrowed when Torvald was ill. This selfless act saved Torvald's life. Nora borrowed the money from her father's bank by a forged signature and has been plagued with the fear of Torvald discovering her secret. When Torvald discovers the existence of the loan he berates Nora, calling her a deceitful and corrupt woman and telling her she is unfit to raise their children. He says that he will stay married only to maintain appearances. Nora realizing that Torvald's love has always been conditional on her maintaining a traditional role as wife and mother decides that she must leave to find out who she is and what to make of her life.

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Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet, theater director, and one of the most influential dramatists in world literature. Born in Skien, Norway, Ibsen grew up in a family that experienced financial decline, an experience that sharpened his awareness of social position, respectability, secrecy, and the pressures of public judgment. He worked in pharmacies and theaters before becoming a major literary figure, spending much of his adult life outside Norway in Italy and Germany while writing plays that transformed European drama.Ibsen's early works drew on history, legend, and verse drama, but he became internationally famous for realistic plays that exposed the moral contradictions of modern social life. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, Pillars of Society, A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. He challenged audiences by bringing uncomfortable subjects onto the stage: marriage, hypocrisy, inherited guilt, venereal disease, corruption, women's legal status, political cowardice, and the cost of living by lies.Ibsen is often called the father of modern drama because he helped move theater away from melodrama and spectacle toward psychological realism, social critique, and morally complex domestic conflict. His influence can be seen in later playwrights across Europe and America, and his plays remain central to theater, literature courses, feminist criticism, and modern performance. A Doll's House in particular made Nora Helmer one of drama's defining figures of self-recognition and made the closed door of the home into a stage for public argument.