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In eight pages this paper examines the various events that were taking place at the time Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll’s House in order to gain a greater contextual understanding of the nineteenth century play and how it was influenced by the cultural issues and historical events that took place during this period. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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slave would escalate into the Civil War. In Europe, there was another skirmish brewing at around the same time between another type of master and slave in the form
of man and woman. The rigid moral standards of Victorianism were enforcing traditional gender roles on both sides of the Atlantic, with women having little or nothing in the
way of independent identity or socioeconomic status. Like the ancient Greek dramatists that came before him, "the father of modern drama" Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was deeply interested in the
issues that characterized the times in which he lived (Cantor 7). He understood that art was a reflection of the prevailing culture of a particular time, and in order
to gain a more profound understanding of Ibsens works, one must examine the historical and cultural context that influenced their subject matter, content, and characterization. This is particularly apparent
in Ibsens most famous play, A Dolls House (1879). Like other Scandinavian literature of the period, A Dolls House was written for women (Barton 108). It, therefore, comes as
no surprise that it would address the gender roles and issues associated with family dynamics that were of growing concern to the women of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a
year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "There are two kinds of moral laws . . . one for men and
one, quite different, for women" (qtd. in Brunsdale). Moral laws typically influence the laws of civilization and resulting social norms. At the time, Western females had little in
the way of decent education. College was out of the question. At a relatively early age (sometimes during teen years), young women were expected to marry a man
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