Ready Reference Treatise: A Doll’s House

By Raja Sharma

The difference between “house” and “home” is one more significant theme which needs to be discussed. Nora and Torvald had a house and they had three children. In that house, Nora lived under the dictates of her husband, though he loved her very much and spoke very politely to her. She danced for him, she sang for him, and she performed tricks for him, but Torvald never tried to understand her as a human being. She was a kind of puppet performing tricks. The concept of home is different. Home is raised on the foundation of understanding, sharing, and mutual truthfulness. Nora was afraid to disclose the truth because she did not want to humiliate her husband and Torvald was not ready to compromise with his principle.

Through this we can say that the title “A Doll’s House” gives a perfect hint why Ibsen did not give it the title “A Doll’s Home”.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Nov 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301649068

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: A Doll’s House

Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Preface

Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader.

But, in the recent years it has been noticed that a very large majority of the students, without reading the original texts, rely on the guide books or notes prepared by their teachers or others. This is definitely not a healthy habit because students do pass their exams with the help of such notes; they miss so many things which haunt them in their later lives.

I would strongly advise all students to read the original text once again even if you have already read it, after reading this short treatise. You will see that the same story, after reading this treatise, will begin to give many new meanings to you.

All the best.

Raja Sharma

Chapter Two: About Henrik Ibsen

There is no doubt that Henrik Ibsen is considered as one of the most influential dramatist during the period of artistic renaissance which took place in Norway towards the last decade of the 19th century. Henrik Ibsen’s plays were highly acclaimed in the academic and social circles all over the world. Ibsen was born in 1828 in Norway and he passed away in 1906.

Since Ibsen was born in a poor family, there were hardships during his childhood. In the mature period of his studies, he studied medicine for some time but he decided to write plays and abandoned his studies.

Ibsen’s first play The Vikings at Helgeland was published in 1958. In the same year he decided to marry his beloved Susannah Thoresen. She was the daughter of a pastor.

His exceptional talent in writing plays won him a scholarship to Italy. It was in Italy where he wrote his memorable plays which established Ibsen in the circle of drama writers. In Italy he wrote