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Covers the title’s meaning through Nora’s “doll” life, places the play in its social and historical context, and explains Ibsen’s aims toward exposing bourgeois hypocrisy and urging character and “real liberty.” Includes discussion of characters, plot summary, sections, quotes, symbols, themes, and suggested reading.","A Doll's House  \nStudy Guide by Course Hero  \nWhat's Inside  \nj Book Basics ................................................................................................. 1  \nd In Context ..................................................................................................... 1  \na Author Biography ..................................................................................... 2  \nh Characters .................................................................................................. 3  \nk Plot Summary ............................................................................................. 6  \nc Section Summaries ............................................................................... 12  \ng Quotes ......................................................................................................... 18  \nl Symbols ..................................................................................................... 20  \nm Themes ........................................................................................................ 21  \ne Suggested Reading .............................................................................. 22  \nj Book Basics  \nAUTHOR  \nHenrik Ibsen  \nYEAR PUBLISHED  \n1879  \nGENRE  \nDrama  \nABOUT THE TITLE  \nNora comes to relate her life to that of a doll, reflecting her husband's treatment of her as a possession who must think and act exactly as he wishes.  \nd In Context  \nDuring Ibsen's life, a new social class was on the rise as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This new class set out to shed the old system of aristocracy and nobility, yet this upward-moving middle class precisely retained the Victorian ideals and morals, often referred to as bourgeoisie respectability. This lifestyle insisted on virtue, purity, freedom from debt, and strict adherence to the customs and rules of social propriety. Ibsen sought to expose the social hypocrisy of this concept and inspire a nobility of character he believed would ultimately come from women, working-class men, and individuals \"attaining to real liberty.\"  \nThe society Ibsen lived in misunderstood the true meaning of his dramas, mostly because his ideas were quite radical. For example, the idea of a woman leaving her husband was earthshaking for a society rooted in the stability of patriarchal structure. So audiences tended to believe Ibsen was calling for the destruction of society, when his true goal was suggesting its reconstruction.  \nNorwegian Government  \nNorway enjoyed a wide berth of autonomy while under the rule of a Swedish king during Ibsen's lifetime. Although Ibsen as a young man delivered a speech denouncing kings and emperors after being inspired by the French Revolution in 1848, he received a lifetime king's grant to write. With this royal support Ibsen lived abroad beginning in 1866 for most of his adult life. Such grants were possible, as it was a common belief that the government was responsible for lifting culture and society through literature and arts by financially supporting talented writers, artists, and scholars. Ibsen criticized the liberal party for being cheap in investing in cultural efforts.  \nPopular Theater  \nThe national theater in Norway was on the decline, and the government and private-run theaters that did exist imported plays from Europe. Ibsen was hired by the Norwegian theater in Bergen as a resident playwright and stage manager for the specific purpose of ushering in originally voiced Norwegian dramas. Ibsen failed many times before succeeding in ousting the overly romantic and popular melodramas in fashion at the time. Ibsen's first plays were complexly drawn and written inverse, as was common practice in theater at the time. 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