I do not regard, "A Doll's House," as a well made play. ... The ending to Ibsen's play, is pretty far from happy. ... It is these, "essential structural features," that not only reflect human morality, presented by Ibsen, but reflect Ibsen's realist style of writing. ... His art had a goal, and using the genre of realism, "A Doll's House," was his first of many steps trying to reach that goal. ... "A Doll's House," not only threw open the door on real life, and exposed humanity's sordid secrets, but slammed the door on archetypes, melodrama, and expectations....

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Plays like A Doll's House, Hadda Gabler and Ghosts are classified under the second phase of his dramatic career. ... A Doll's House was the first in the series investigating the tensions of family life. ... In A Doll's House we find two types of spirtual laws, two kinds of conscience, one in men and a quite different one in women. ... A Doll's House tells the story of Nora who is a "wife" of a "bank manager" Helmer. ... She decides to leave her doll's house after coming to realize that their ideal home including their marriage and parenting has been a fabrication fo...

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This period saw several masterpieces like Ghosts (1881), Hedda Gabbler (1890), A Doll's House (1879), The Lady from the Sea (1888). ... This is as true of Nora in A Doll's House as it is of Hedda Gabbler. A Doll's House (1879) was a socio-drama on marriage in which a woman walks out from her seemingly perfect marriage following the desperational act of consorting to fraud in order to save her husband from critical illness. ... Ibsen remarked about Hedda Gabbler " . ... Ibsen " . ...

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For a play to be dramatic, it must be witnessed. The witness is a necessity for all forms of art. A pile of leaves is not art until a man walks by and calls it a pile of leaves. Since drama is an art, it requires the same exact thing, a witness. But there is a reason why art is divided into categori...

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