e. This influence was still prominant during Ibsen's time and throughout his work. During the early part of the 19th century a patriotic movement materialized, mainly sparked by a student named Henrik Wergeland. He studied and popularized neglected folklor

ritics and his writing: Most critical objections boil down to a reproach against the writer for being himself, thinking, feeling, seeing and writing as himself, instead of seeing and writing as the critic would have done, had he been able. The essential thing is to protect one's essential self, to keep it pure and free of all intrusive elements, and to draw a clear distinction between what one has merely experienced and what one has spiritually lived through; for only the latter is proper matter for creative writing. Ibsen's supporters eventually outnumbered his critics, and A Doll's House, with the original ending, made him artistically, socially, and financially successful. The play is not nearly the social phenomenon it was at the time, but it's content, like that of all great art, can be a lesson to us still.

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ves. Ibsen was not suggesting anyone do anything. His reply was that his job was to ask questions, not to answer them. He was mearly requesting that people look at, and think about, the social structure they support. One of Ibsen's main ideologies was that every human being has the right to act on private judgement against conventional beliefs. The play reflects this clearly, and the rebel in it is a woman for a reason. Ibsen knew no one would contemplate his theme so thoroughly had Nora been a man or child. Many view this play as a feminist drama, one created to better women's lives. Ibsen's only purpose was to better human interactions. He once offended a dinner party, thrown in honor of him, by a woman's rights group, when he stated that he did not know what the woman's cause was. He did not see woman's causes as any different than human causes. In Ibsen's notes for A Doll's House, he speaks of two types of moral consciousness, one for men and one for women. He felt that th!

g to Ibsen's view of 'Freedom,' it is not something that can be given to someone, the way Denmark had "given" it to Norway, with the stipulation that Sweden be the big sister in the relationship. Norway was considered 'free' by the Swedes. They had thier own crown, and government, but it was so closely intertwined with that of Sweden that any Norsk individuality was lost. Sweden, like Nora's husband Torvald, was undoubtedly dominant. Norway had freedoms, and could be involved in the legislation of itself. Nora had freedoms, and was allowed her own life, to some degree. But any concern for Nora's (or Norway's) personal being was purely superficial. Eventually both became tired of having thier 'Freedom' restricted and took action. The search for 'Freedom' for Nora, like Norway, began from within.

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