A Doll's House: A Push to Freedom
Sometime after the publication of "A Doll's House", Henrik Ibsen spoke
at a meeting of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. He explained to
the group, "I must decline the honor of being said to have worked for the
Women's Rights movement. I am not even very sure what Women's Rights are. To
me it has been a question of human rights" ( ). "A Doll's House" is often
interpreted by readers, teachers, and critics alike as an attack on chauvinistic
behavior and a cry for the recognition of women's rights ( ). Instead its theme
is identical to several of his plays written around the same time period: the
characters willingly exist in a situation of untruth or inadequate truth which
conceals conflict and contradiction ( ). In "A Doll's House", Nora's
independent nature is in contradiction the tyrannical authority of Torvald.
This conflict is concealed by the way they both hide their true selves from
society, each other, and ultimately......
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