A Doll's House
A Classics, Drama, Fiction book. HELMER:To forsake your home, your husband, and your children! You dont consider what the world will say....
A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play was highly controversial when first published, as it is sharply critical of 19th Century marriage norms. It follows the formula of well-made play up until the final act, when it breaks convention by ending with a discussion, not an unravelling. It is often called the first true feminist play, although Ibsen denied this.
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- Pages: 72 pages
- ISBN: 9780486270623 / 486270629
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HELMER:To forsake your home, your husband, and your children! You dont consider what the world will say. NORA:I can pay no heed to that. I only know what I must do. HELMER:It is exasperating! Can you forsake your holiest duties in this world? NORA:What do you call my holiest duties? HELMER:Do you ask me that? Your duties to your husband and your children. NORA:I have other duties equally sacred. HELMER:Impossible! What duties do you mean? NORA:My duties towards myself. HELMER:Before all else you are a wife and a mother. NORA:That I no longer believe.... When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House // Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House //
A doll's house. What image comes to mind when you hear those words? A "perfect" family? A peaceful, innocent domestic situation? Friends dropping in? Preparations for a holiday celebration? Play-time! Yes, Nora and Torvald seem to have the perfect life. Certainly, they have weathered some challenges in life but they have survived. Here... I read Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House back in high school as required reading but did not grasp the scope of his masterpiece then. Ibsen penned his classic play about the story of Nora and Thorvald Helmer at a time in his life when he was coping with his former love Laura being confined to an insane asylum. In 1872 Laura married a man... I found this play to be incredibly moving. Nora, a cheerful and devoted wife, eventually finds herself questioning the validity of her marriage and the man she thought of as her husband.It was interesting to see how both Nora and her husband handled a crisis under pressure. Nora acted independently of her husband in order to save his...
