Differences Between A Doll's House And Ghosts

The plays A Doll’s House and Ghosts are written by the eminent writer, Henrik Ibsen. A Doll’s House and Ghosts are two works of play that made its genre popular in theater, known as realism. In the play A Doll’s House, Ibsen focuses on the nature of women including society and its rules (Byatt, 2009). Henrik Ibsen suggests that the play is not about women’s rights. The play was based on a true story that took place during Ibsen’s lifetime. Both realism plays, A Doll’s House and Ghosts, include similarities and differences. A Doll’s House begins with Nora Helmer entering her house with a Christmas tree and packages on Christmas Eve. In this play, Nora enjoys eating macaroons. She has to hide it from her husband, Torvald Helmer, due to the fact

Alving sent her son away and decided to protect her husband’s reputation. She had the perfect opportunity to go against her husband and take her son and leave. However, even though Mrs. Alving’s husband cheated on her, she still stuck with him and was unhappy with her life. On the other hand, in the play A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer left her husband and her children because of the way he always treated her. Nora’s husband never treated her as a grown woman. But instead, he treated her as a doll, always controlling her. This illustrates that Nora Helmer and Mrs. Alving made different decisions on whether to stay with their husbands or to leave them. In conclusion, the two plays A Doll’s House and Ghosts include similarities and differences that Ibsen included for the reader to understand and comprehend about marriage and love. Neither of Ibsen’s two plays resulted with a happy ending. Not all characters in Ibsen’s works had their problems solved by the conclusion of the play. Ibsen wanted to demonstrate that being in a marriage would not always regularly turn out well. And with this, Ibsen had an opposition to the standards of society when writing his