Act 3, Nora on being a human being
I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are — or, at all events, that I must try and become one.Read in Books4Free →
Themes of Marriage, Gender, and Identity
From A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
The play interrogates the institution of bourgeois marriage, the legal and moral status of women, and the right of the individual to self-realization — themes that scandalized 19th-century audiences.
Act 1, Nora to Mrs. Linde on the law
Nora questions a legal system in which a woman has no right to spare her dying father or save her husband's life — Ibsen's critique of patriarchal law.
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