A Doll's House
Ibsen's best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women's rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Ibsen's best-known play displays his genius for realistic prose drama. An expression of women's rights, the play climaxes when the central character, Nora, rejects a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house." A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781599869490 (1599869497)
Publish date: September 1st 2006
Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
Pages no: 124
Edition language: English
This will always be one of my favorites!
This will always be one of my favorites!
I had given this play a fairly ordinary review when I first commented on it, simply because when I studied it at high school I was put off by the fact that Nora simply up and left, and in a way it felt like she had undergone an inexplicable and sudden change. However, after reading [book:Peer Gynt] ...
Ibsen is credited as the father of modern drama. Certainly this play backs that up. It looks at the realities of middle class life and has an emphasis on realism. It is also an attack on the falseness and hypocrisy of many marriages.However, despite the necessarily truncated story and fast action...
I think the translation takes some stuff out of it, but it's still pretty good.
10 years ago
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