A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen, 1879
A wife with a secret loan, a husband who thinks he owns the sunshine, and a home where every kindness is a transaction.
Henrik Ibsen
1828–1906
Ibsen wrote A Doll’s House during his long exile from Norway, in Rome and Munich, fifteen years after he left home.
Feels like unease, morality and defiance.
A marriage described as a playroom, by the person who was the favourite doll.
NORA. No, only merry. And you have always been so kind to me. But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them. That is what our marriage has been, Torvald. Books by Henrik Ibsen
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