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A Doll's House: A Classic Drama of Marriage, Secrecy, and a Woman's Awakening
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515435587
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nora Helmer seems to live inside a comfortable marriage, but the security around her has been built on secrecy, debt, fear, and illusion. In A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen turns an ordinary middle-class home into the setting for one of the most famous confrontations in modern drama. As Nora's hidden sacrifice for her husband comes dangerously close to exposure, the roles of wife, mother, husband, provider, and moral authority begin to collapse under the pressure of truth.
The play shocked nineteenth-century audiences because it refused to treat domestic life as a private refuge beyond serious examination. Ibsen exposes the power imbalance inside a respectable marriage, the legal and social limitations placed on women, and the way affection can become possession when one person is denied full moral independence. Nora's awakening is not simple rebellion but a painful recognition that she has been treated as a charming child rather than as a complete human being.
First performed in 1879, A Doll's House remains one of the central works of modern theater. Its influence reaches across feminist literature, realism, social drama, family drama, and psychological drama, and its final scene is still one of the most discussed endings in world drama. For readers and students interested in women's rights, marriage, individual freedom, social respectability, and the birth of modern realistic drama, Ibsen's play remains urgent, unsettling, and remarkably alive.
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