A DOLL'S HOUSE

A Doll's House



A Doll's House

Brief Overview

"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen was finished and published in 1897 in the era realism. The play was, at that time, repeatedly discussed and criticized. The reason for this was the subject Henrik Ibsen took up for the play (McFarlane, 1962). Doll's House was written two years after the society columns and was the first play of Ibsen which caused a sensation. Today is perhaps his most famous work and is required reading in many schools and universities. When it was published, Dollhouse generated much controversy, as it strongly criticizes the marriage laws of the nineteenth-century. This piece of literature complements well with other such as the Cathedral, and Story of an Hour.

This play delineates the lives of oppressed women by accurately expounding how women in the nineteenth-century were treated by their husbands. They had no respect, and they were treated as dolls that can be called by pet name. They were treated as dumpster to rid of anger and frustration. Women in the nineteenth-century were not allowed to have their own financial security. In order to survive, they had to rely on their fathers or husbands, and if their men were not wealthy enough, they were out of luck.

Cultural Significance and Success

Henrik Ibsen's plays are played in theatres all over the world. It is interpreted and performed in different ways depending on what country or religion it plays

In Iraq, Nora goes off with the baby when she moves out of the house. In Iraq, there is a husband's right to have kids and the house, no matter who leaves the other.

In China, the Communists had to approve Ibsen's piece before it could be performed for all others. Henrik Ibsen was writing about the end of "A Doll's House" for ...