Author: Henrik Ibsen
Translator: Bok-rok Gwak
Publisher: Shinwon Munhwasa
Hardcover | 285 pages | 188*128mm
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About This Book
A Doll's House is a scathing criticism of the traditional roles of men and women
in Victorian marriage. As Ibsen wrote in his initial notes for the play, "There
are two kinds of moral law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and a completely
different one in woman. They do not understand each other; but in matters of
practical living the woman is judged by man’s law, as if she were not a woman
but a man."
Ibsen has his protagonist, Nora, leave her husband in search of the wider world,
after realizing that he is not the noble creature she has supposed him to be.
Her role in the marriage is that of a doll, her house a "Doll's House", and
indeed her husband Torvald refers to her incessantly as his little "starling"
and as his "squirrel". She is not even permitted a key to the mailbox. Ibsen
noted, "A woman cannot be herself in contemporary society, it is an exclusively
male society with laws drafted by men, and with counsel and judges who judge
feminine conduct from the male point of view." When she is blackmailed because
of an improper act that she commits in order to save her husband's life ?
forging her father's name on a note ? her husband shows disgust and horror at
what she had done upon finding this out. His only concern is his own reputation,
despite the love for him that prompts her to do it.
When the blackmailer (Krogstad) recants, it could all be over, and in a
traditional Victorian drama all would then be resolved. For Ibsen, however, and
for Nora, it is too late to go back to the way things were. Her illusions
destroyed, she decides she must leave her husband, her children, and her Doll's
House to discover what is truly real and what is not. As Ibsen described it,
"Depressed and confused by her faith in authority, she loses faith in her moral
right and ability to bring up her children. A mother in contemporary society,
just as certain insects go away and die when she has done her duty in the
propagation of the race."
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