A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen

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Marriage is a forever commitment between two individual. At least that's what marriage is meant to be. In henrik ibsen play 'A doll house' he puts an twist on the 'happily ever after' reality of marriage. Henrik Isben was born on march 20, 1828 in Skein Norway. With the appearance of 'A doll house' Ibsen fame spread beyond Scandinavian to the rest of Europe and the world. (Mass,Wilson pg.115) Ibsen wrote a dolls house in the late eighteenth century originally in Norwegian while ibsen was in rome and amalfi Italy. (Moss,Wilson Pg.115) The play was published on December 4,
1979 and first performed in Copenhagen on December 21, 1879.

Since a dolls house was a twist in reality many critics in the 18th century felt that "no playwright would have created such an assertive, likable heroine without feeling some sympathy for the challenges facing women at this time"(Allphin). However Ibsen says this is it true. His rightful intentions of writing the play wasn't from sympathy just some plain humanity. "True enough it is desirable to solve the problems of Human
Rights along with the others but that has not been the whole purpose. My task has been a description of humanity"(Ibsen, Allphin).

Although many critics felt that nora's transformation as a seeming submission flightly women from the first two acts could display so much resolve and strenght in the third act.(Moss, Wilson Pg.115) So much that a critic name Errol Durbach in his book; A dolls House: Ibsens Myth Of
Transformation stated that " Ibsen had disgusted his audience by
"violating the unconventional"(Durbach). Many others also could not visualize the kind of behavior demonstrated by Nora. However in a 1986 performance review, New York Times contributor Walter Goodman declared th...

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