{"id":6260,"date":"2018-03-05T13:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2018-03-05T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T12:26:54","slug":"books-on-monday-a-dolls-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/books-on-monday-a-dolls-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Monday: A Doll’s house"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henrik Ibsen<\/b>\u00a020 March 1828 \u2013 23 May 1906) was a major\u00a019th-century\u00a0Norwegian\u00a0playwright, theatre director, and\u00a0poet.<\/p>\n

A Doll’s House\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

By Henrik Ibsen<\/p>\n

First performed at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 21, 1879, \u201cA Doll\u2019s House\u201d is one of Henrik Ibsen\u2019s most famous plays. It is the story of Nora Helmer who has secretly borrowed a large sum of money to help her husband recover from a serious illness, sometime prior to the beginning of the play. Nora who has borrowed this money by forging her father\u2019s signature soon fears that her secret will be discovered when her husband, Torvald, becomes director of the bank and fires an associate, Nils Krogstad, who knows of Nora\u2019s transgression. When Krogstad threatens to reveal Nora\u2019s secret, she begs her husband to reinstate him, however, he refuses. The tension that arises in Nora and Torvald\u2019s marriage ultimately comes to a head when Torvald finally learns of the forgery. A gripping drama about a failing, loveless marriage, \u201cA Doll\u2019s House\u201d was very controversial when it debuted, because of its critical attitude toward 19th-century marriage norms. Ibsen himself believed that the male dominated society of the 19th-century society failed to allow women to truly be themselves, and thus advocated, through his work, for an advancement of women\u2019s rights. <\/div><\/div>