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An 8 page paper which examines critical responses to Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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It is the story about a woman coming to a place in her life where she realizes she must be more than a wife and mother. This was something that
most audiences of the late 19th century did not understand as the primary character leaves her family in the end. It is a story that is far more widely understood
today, as well as perhaps more appreciated. The following paper presents an examination of 5 different reviews of Ibsens play. A Dolls House The first review or critical analysis
of Ibsens play discusses the social aspects of the play both when it was produced in the 19th century and today. Rosefeldt states that in this play Nora, the
main character, leaves her children and her family, something that "shocked the plays original audience just as it shocks some students of literature today" (84). This critic indicates that Ibsens
focus was not really on feminism or feminist causes as much as it was on the patriarchal society in which people lived (Rosefeldt). Rosefeldt states that in this play Ibsen
is really making comments on fatherhood and how in a patriarchal society a father is often associated with such things as abandonment: "Mrs. Linde, Noras friend, is the victim of
an absent father. Although it is not obvious, her fathers absence lies at the bottom of her plight. To support her sick mother and her brothers, Mrs. Linde married a
man she did not love. The absence of her father forced her to seek a new father figure in a rich husband, but he too fails in this role, becoming
bankrupt and an invalid. By depicting the father as absent or polluted, Ibsen defames the patriarchal figure" (Rosefeldt 84). Another character is Anne Marie who gives birth to an
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