Sex, Money, Power & Macaroons (A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen)

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Product:	A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
Date:	22.11.00 (2299 review reads)
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Advantages: absorbing plot

Disadvantages: Best bit is at the end

A Doll's House caused controversy when it was first shown because, Heaven Forbid, a woman stood up for herself and said "I want to be my own person". There was an Anti-Ibsen League formed too.
Feminism aside, Doll's House is also a story of desire, conjugal rites and rights, and the oppressive nature of upper middle class society in the 1800s. Ibsen manages to create such a claustrophic atmosphere from the outset and builds up to a dramatic climax which has you biting your nails and wanting you to give the husband the biggest slap you could muster. The humour is dark, the plot thick, and the characters superb a randy drunken patronising husband and a scared conniving naive strong wife, a lovestruck macabre doctor, a lonely working woman and a ruined sinister debt collector. Brilliant.

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