Henrik Ibsen's Classic Drama: "A Doll's House"

A. Martinez: This play is both simple in its plot and complex in its themes and characters. The beginning doesn’t prepare you for the ending.

United States on Nov 25, 2023

janie: Book was bound incorrectly. I need the book now for a school assignment, so I don’t have time to return and buy another.

United States on Oct 31, 2023

Rick: It was okay

United States on Oct 22, 2023

tarin: Had to get this book for my daughter for school she loved it

United States on Oct 13, 2023

Pritish Mishra: One of the most performed play of Ibsen.

India on Sep 10, 2023

lalalandlalaland: It's short and engaging. A must read.

India on Jun 27, 2023

Shahjad Khan: Although written in late 19th century, the story of Nora and Torvald isn't obsolete for our times. Nora is every woman who is stuck in a hypocritical marriage, where the husband believes he is a more a care taker than a friendly and understanding companion. A marriage where she is obliged to be at her husband's service and nurturing of their children but shouldn't poke her nose, even in the most desparate condition, when it comes to financial matters. On the other hand Torvald lives through an illusion in which he confuses constant attention to his wife as never ending love. The disclosure of a concealed chapter in Nora's life and Torvald's initial reaction led Nora to discover how stranger they were to each other and how she is considered a 'doll' because she lacks individualism. What was that Nora has been hiding from Torvald and What was the aftermath of her discovery define this play. Ibsen's portrayal of Nora is a true reflection of how women were and are considered to be less important and incapable of making important decisions.

When it comes to the book, the publishers have done a good job. They have a chosen a nice readable font which is sufficiently big enough to...

India on Aug 25, 2019

John P. Jones III: This play was a high school reading assignment lo' those many years ago, and as with some other similar assignments, I've undertaken an initiative to re-read them, and consider how the book (as well as I) might have aged in the intervening decades. If fussy memory serves me correctly, I appreciated this play the first time around, and hopefully incorporated some of its messages into my thinking.

Henrik Ibsen was the leading Norwegian playwright of the 19th century. This play was first produced in 1879. It is still one of the most popular, and performed plays in the world today. Certainly tame by today's "shock" standards, purportedly it did shock many in the audience when it was first produced, due to its scathing portrait of the staid bourgeois views of the role of women in society and marriage. In brief, not just subordinate, but rather a mere appendage to their father's, at first, beliefs and actions, which would later prepare them for the same role serving their husband. Scandinavia was, and often remains, in the forefront in terms of progressive social ideas and legislation. As one of my Swedish friends would quip: "Sweden is a moral superpower."

The two...

United States on Feb 25, 2015

Top O' Trawden: In writing this review my aim is to demonstrate that Torvald has been, in my opinion, the recipient of much harsh criticism. At the risk of sounding chauvinistic I would like to demonstrate that he is in fact a misunderstood man who deserves both our pity and sympathy. Indeed,the more we are with him the more we realise that he presents a classic case of a person with a serious neurosis. All the evidence would seem to be pointing towards a personality Freud would have considered as obsessional; a condition he thought likely to occur in dedicated and successful people.

His persona has all the attributes of a man with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. He is intelligent; a workaholic' scrupulously honest and obsessed by the need for order and probity both in the home and in society, Indeed he feels that without these virtues society is on the edge of an abyss.

As the play proceeds we become increasingly aware of his obsessive attitudes to thrift and honesty. Let us not forget that he was formerly a lawyer and is now a bank manager with a position in society. Also like many other men of his time he feels the need as paterfamilias to be in control of his household and the...

United Kingdom on Feb 28, 2014