"A Doll's House" Henrik Ibsen
HELMER:Go then [Seizes her arm]. But first you shall see your children for the last time!
NORA: Let me got! I will not see them! I cannot!
HELMER:(draws her over to the doorleft) You shall see them. (Opens the door and says softly) Look there they are asleep peacefull and carefree. Tomorow they wake up and call for their mother, they will be - motherless.
NORA: [trembling] Motherless!
HELMER: As you once were.
NORA: Motherless! [struggles with herself, lets her traveling bag fall, and says.] Oh it is a sin against myself, but I cannot leave them. [Half sinks down by the door.]
HELMER: [joyfully, but softly] Nora!
[curtain closes]
Ibsen's play upset German directors so much that they forced him to write an alternate ending. Ibsen called the changed ending a "barbaric act of violence towards the play".
The play was an outrage described by furious Victorian newspapers as "..an open drain" and "a toilet" and met by protestors in several......
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