AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Question
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A Doll’s House
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Riders to the Sea
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A Handful of Dust
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The Fatal Curiosity
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Detailed explanation-1: -“There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt, ” (4) Torvald says to his wife, Nora. That line is ironic because Nora Helmer has no freedom. In “A Doll’s House, ” Henrik Ibsen’s characters struggle to strive for what is right, both in a sense of their feelings and morally.
Detailed explanation-2: -Individual freedom is a fundamental theme of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Through the character of Nora Ibsen shows the necessity of individual freedom. Without it one can’t flourish oneself and establish oneself as equal partner with other (Nora – Helmer relationship).
Detailed explanation-3: -She claims that freedom will give her time to be a mother and a traditional wife who maintains a beautiful home, as her husband likes it. But the message of the play is that Nora cannot find true freedom in this traditional domestic realm.
Detailed explanation-4: -Torvald is committed to living a debt free life, which shows that he finds freedom through being able to control his own life without having to be bound by obligations to other people. Torvald also creates control in his life through his marriage with Nora.