A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen Reviews

A Doll House was the first of Ibsen's plays to create such a HUGE sensation and I think it is now perhaps his most famous play. It is my favourite Ibsen play. At the time when it was published, the play was highly controversial due to it's blatent criticicism of the standard Victorian marriage. About the author Henrik Johan Ibsen ...

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 ...

I have studied this play for my A-Level English and it is a great play. It centres upon two characters Nora and Helmer. The play explores commitment and how Helmer sees Nora simply as a 'pretty thing' and a housewife. When she goes behind his back, the consequences are very real. t brings about very real issues, that still occur today and ...

This is undoubtedly one of the greatest play's ever written, Ibsen draw's on what he percieved as the ill's of society in his time and as a result has created a play that is more accepted and appreciated by today's society than it was by his contemporary audience. At the time there was such an outcry about the end of the play (I ...