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    A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of A Doll’s House with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, which centres on the repercussions of a lie told by its main character many years earlier. Nora Helmer forged a signature to secure the loan she needed to help her husband recover from a life-threatening illness, at a time when women were barred from borrowing money without a man’s authorisation. This serves as the starting point for an exploration of the limitations faced by women in society, the meaning of morality and justice, and the deceit and hypocrisy that characterise respectable middle-class society. Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest European dramatists of all time. Many of his plays, including An Enemy of the People and Hedda Gabbler, are still performed regularly today.

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    • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateMay 31, 2018
    ISBN9782808002189
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      A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      NORWEGIAN DRAMATIST AND POET

      Born in Skien (Norway) in 1828.

      Died in Kristiana (now Oslo, Norway) in 1906.

      Notable honours:

      Knight, First Class of the Order of Vasa (1873)

      Notable works:

      Brand (1866), dramatic poem

      An Enemy of the People (first published in 1882 and first performed in 1883), play

      The Wild Duck (1884), play

      The Master Builder (first published in 1892 and first performed in 1893), play

      Henrik Ibsen was born in a small town on the Norwegian coast to an affluent merchant family. Although his family was initially one of the wealthiest and best-known in Skien, when Ibsen was seven years old his father’s luck changed, forcing him to sell their house and move to a less well-to-do neighbourhood. These events had a profound impact on the young Ibsen, and many of the characters in his plays find themselves in dire financial straits.

      After failing his exams, which meant that he could not go to university, he decided to dedicate himself to writing at the age of 18. His first works, which were published under a pseudonym in 1850, garnered little attention, and it was a long time before his writing received any recognition. This meant that he struggled financially throughout his younger years, and his frustration with his native country led him to move to Italy and then Germany, where he wrote most of his works and rose to worldwide fame.

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