A Doll's House: A Play Classic Realist Drama of Marriage, Gender Roles, and the Cost of Independence
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Erscheinungsdatum
05.11.2026
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Library of AlexandriaSeitenzahl
138 (Printausgabe)
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146 KB
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1. Auflage
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Englisch
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9781808301360
What happens when a devoted wife begins to question the life everyone expects her to want? Behind a comfortable home's closed doors, one secret puts love, respectability, and personal integrity to the test.
First performed in 1879, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House follows Nora Helmer, whose apparently happy marriage to Torvald rests on assumptions she has scarcely begun to examine. Years earlier, she secretly borrowed money to help save her husband's life. When the circumstances of that loan threaten to become public, the affectionate language and familiar rituals of their household take on a different meaning.
Set largely within the Helmers' home, this landmark of realist theatre turns an intimate domestic crisis into a searching examination of marriage, money, and unequal power. Nora's struggle asks whether love can survive without mutual understanding, and whether duty to others can erase responsibility to oneself. Its lasting force comes from the gap between the life a family presents to the world and the difficult truths its members avoid.
What readers find inside:
- Nora Helmer - A wife and mother begins to examine the expectations that have shaped her identity.
- A dangerous secret - A concealed loan exposes the tension between legal wrongdoing and an act intended to protect someone loved.
- Marriage and power - Nora and Torvald's exchanges reveal how affection can coexist with condescension and control.
- Social respectability - Fear of scandal places reputation in conflict with loyalty, compassion, and honesty.
- A famous departure - The closing confrontation raises enduring questions about independence and the obligations of family life.
For readers of classic drama, students exploring gender and society, and theatre lovers drawn to intimate moral conflicts, this play offers characters whose choices remain difficult to dismiss or settle.
Step inside the Helmer household and encounter the questions that make Nora's awakening so unsettling.
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