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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
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