A Few Thoughts on Ibsen’s a Doll’s House

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Abstract A Doll’s House is regarded as a kind of ”canon”. There are so many critics seem to try to find a way out for Nora. Her 8 years marriage with Torvald Helmer was so good until she realize that Torvald Helmer was not really love her , until she know that she has always been treated as a doll in her family even by her husband, and found out she wasn’t in the real home. Nora has become the most courageous women, who fighting for an equal place in family. However this paper focus on Nora’s feeling to her husband, her great hope to her Torvald Helmer, hope for understanding and prove of his love, which is end with disappointment. So that Nora will quit the doll house to find her real house and new live. Key Words Nora; Torvald; hope; trust; miracle; terror; sacrfice A few thoughts of Ibsen’s Doll’s house In this paper I will analyze Nora’s words in act three “That was the miracle I was waiting for, in terror and hope”. What does she mean about the “miracle” and why in “terror and hope”? This play is about marriage live of Nora and Torvald Helmer, which Nora describes as a woman who treated like a doll with his husband, and Torvald Helmer describes as a man who embraces the belief that a man’s role in marriage is to protect and guide his wife. He clearly enjoys the idea that Nora needs his guidance, and he interacts with her as a father would. Firstly let’s see historical background of this play. This book wrote and published in 1879, in this period men and women wasn’t in the equal social position. In people perception, men social class is higher than women’s. Women had to obey men, because in most cases men held all the resources and women had no independent means of subsistence. That's why this play was controversial when first published, as it is sharply critical of 19th century marriage norms. But for me all of the marriage
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