-~--- ~;~ The play, A Doll's House, written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879, is a landmark in drama for its realistic portrayal of people, places, and situations. He writes about a society of predominately middle-class citizens that is seriously limited by its outlook and means of livelihood. The play's characters are preoccupied with work and money to such an extent that there is a severe reduction of values and a lack of quality persons with morals. Ibsen then takes this story and gives it universal significance by using the male figures as catalysts for Nora Hemler's struggle for self-actualization. The fmished product marked the beginning of contemporary problem dramas. The theme of this drama is still considered contemporary today. Ibsen masterfully used sin, heredity, disease, genetic progression and death within his favorite theme of an individual's struggle for an authentic identity in the face of strict social conventions that culminates with a character's personal struggle between a sense of duty to oneself and their responsibility to society. In A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen introduces Nora Hemler as the character searching for an authentic identity. He tells his readers that by failing to recognize her own needs, Nora has becQme trapped in a stagnant, doll-child existence where her obsessive need to please her husband has halted her development as an independent person.
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