A Doll's HouseThis epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband, Torvald Helmer, and his wife, Nora, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized home life collapses, comes to the realization that she must finally close the door on her husband, children, and life in "a doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self. |
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ANNE-MARIE antique Anyway Ashtray bank BASIC CATALOGUE brown box camisole CATALOGUE OF PLAYS chair Christmas tree CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON cigar closes the door costume costume jewelry cotton course Daddy dance dear Nora Decorations box detachable collars DOLL'S HOUSE doorway dress everything exits father frighten front door give gloves goes going Good-bye hall door hand happen happy Helene HELMER Henrik Ibsen hip pad husband Ivar Kristine KROGSTAD letter box LINDE Listen little lark live look lovely macaroons madam MAID mean miracle Moving Mummy never night overcoat piano Poor promise RANK round scarf Sits Smiling sofa someone songbird sort of thing stop stove suppose sure talk TALKING HEADS tambourine tarantella tell terrible thank There's thought told tomorrow Torvald understand What's wife wool worry