A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen Essay

“I believe that first and foremost I am a human being,” argues Nora Helmer in the play, A Dolls House. Who does human being represent? Many would think human beings include males and females then why are women not given the same human rights like men if they are the same? Henrik Ibsen challenges this question about the inequality between men and women. Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828 in Skien, Norway. At first many of his plays were not successful; as a result, Ibesn self-exiled himself to Italy to find inspiration. While in Italy, Ibsen wrote one of his most famous but high criticize play A Doll’s House in 1868. From there a door way to fame opened for him. He wrote Hedda Galber in 1890, which created the foundation for theaters’ multiple

The play that was the beginning of his successful career, A Doll’s House, was highly condemned because of its taboo theme about marriage and women. Through the play, Ibsen proved that he was ahead of his time when he wrote it. A Doll’s House is about Nora Helmer coming into terms that she is in a repressive marriage. Nora first came off as a carefree wife that had no concern for reality but as more of the story unfolds the audience fined the intelligent and manipulating side of Nora who is not childish. Nora borrows money illegally from a man named Nils Krogstad in order to save her extremely sick husband’s life. Her husband, Torvald Helmer, has recently been promoted to bank manager and wants to fire Nils because he thinks Nils is corrupt and evil. Torvald loathes borrowing money so Nils uses this to his advantage to blackmail Nora with her I.O.U. He convinces Nora to try and talk her husband out of firing him, but Nora was unsuccessful. Fed up with his wife’s attempts of trying to persuade him to keep Nils, Torvald fires Nils sooner. Angrily, Nils writes a latter explaining Nora’s problem and shoves it into the Helmer’s mailbox for Torvald to