A Doll's House

family who soon after his birth lost their money. Ibsen worked as a pharmacist's

apprentice, but at the age of twenty-two he had written his first play, a promising

melodrama entitled " Cataline ". He engaged in theater work first in Norway and then

in Denmark and Germany. By 1865 his plays had won him a state pension that

enabled him to settle in Rome. After writing romantic, historic and poetic plays, he

returned to realistic drama with " The League of Youth " ( 1869 ). Among the major

realistic "problem plays" are "A Doll's House " ( 1879 ), " Ghosts " ( 1881 ), and " An

Enemy of the People " ( 1882 ). In " The Wild Duck " (1884) he moved toward a more

symbolic tragic comedy, and his last plays, written in the nineties, are highly

symbolic. In the year 1906 he died from aphasia which took even the power of him to

put words on paper. I'm going to study one of his "problem plays" which is " A Doll's

House ". In " A Doll's House ", Ibsen as he often does, criticizes society's general

thoughts on women and the place of women in society. In fact, he criticizes how

. . .

The other woman character is Mrs. She has

opened a shop and run a school in order to live through. " ( Hemmer, 1994:82 ) It was basically a time where the

women could not do anything for theirselves. He can do what he likes with me, demand what he pleases, order me to do anything- I dare not disobey him.

Nora: Yes, I just happened to be passing. Husband is dominant financially in the marriage which is stressed

at the very beginning of the play. The significiant thing is Nora chooses to abandon her

family to pursue her own independence and individuality which she has found the

courage from Mrs. Linde is left with nothing but she is still able to move on. A woman can only take out a loan if she has the consent of a husband or a

father.

In conclusion, Ibsen criticizes a wide range of social issues of the time. an example of this from the play " A

Doll's House " is the loan that Nora takes out to save Torvald's life.

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