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Ibsen Volume I: Four Major Plays |
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A Doll House Ghosts An Enemy of the People Hedda Gabler |
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Available for purchase through: A Doll House A DOLL HOUSE is about
spiritual 'awakening' within the modern world: its possibility, difficulty
and danger. The action is set at a time of symbolic rebirth, Christmas,
the time of the death of the old year and the birth of the new. This
seasonal feast, in Norway, is given the pagan name of 'Yule' and has
the pagan associations of feasting, dancing, gifts and the good life
in materialist terms. TORVALD and NORA HELMER both live in an illusory,
false, 'doll house' and need to be expelled from this false Eden. If
it is Nora who awakens first, this is because it is she, and not Torvald,
who has been put through the violent shocks of three days drastic self-examination
and examination of her world. But the play ends with Torvald, and the
possibility of his awakening too. |
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