Henrik Ibsen
A Doll´s house

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Páginas: 102
Formato: 14 X 21
Peso: 0.3 kgs.
ISBN: 9789878978161

One of the best-known, most frequently performed modern play, A Dolls House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama. As for the main character of Nora, Ibsen epitomized the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social conformity. Noras ultimate rejection of a smothering marriage and life in a dolls house shocked theatergoers of the late 1800s and opened new horizons for playwrights and their audiences. But daring social themes is only one aspect of Ibsens power as a dramatist. A Dolls House shows his gift for creating realistic dialogue as well as a suspenseful flow of events and, above all, psychologically penetrating representations that make the struggles of his dramatic characters utterly convincing. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that a woman cannot be herself in modern society, since it is an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint. His ideas can also be seen as having a wider application: the plays theme is not only womens rights, but rather the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person.