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A Doll's House

e’” (Meyer 454-455). Thus we can see that Ibsen’s theater had a powerful social impact. This paper will analyze the character of Nora and discuss the social problems that the play confronts. In particular we will focus on Nora’s transition from docile Victorian housewife to proto-feminist icon that is signified by her change of dress that prepares the stage for the final “talk” with Torvald, the end of which produced what has become known as the door slam heard around the world.

Indeed, the final scene produced the door slam heard around the world and the play is still the object of debate today. But Ibsen was not interested in becoming a spokesman for feminism. He just wanted to create a great play that dealt with the liberation of human beings, and he did. We are led to believe that Ibsen was more interested in art than social change. Perhaps, as his notes state, he was looking for a modern tragic hero. Greek and Shakespearean tragedy informs us that the hero is always partly trapped by forces from without. And who could be more trapped by outside forces than a wife and mother in a Victorian household: “A woman cannot be herself in contemporary society, it is an exclusiv

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