A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828 at Skien in Norway. He was from a wealthy family who soon after his birth lost their money. Ibsen worked as a pharmacist's apprentice, but at the age of twenty-two he had written his first play, a promising melodrama entitled " Cataline ". He engaged in theater work first in Norway and then in Denmark and Germany. By 1865 his plays had won him a state pension that enabled him to settle in Rome. After writing romantic, historic and poetic plays, he returned to realistic drama with " The League of Youth " ( 1869 ). Among the major realistic "problem plays" are "A Doll's House " ( 1879 ), " Ghosts " ( 1881 ), and " An Enemy of the People " ( 1882 ). In " The Wild Duck " (1884) he moved toward a more symbolic tragic comedy, and his last plays, written in the nineties, are highly symbolic. In the year 1906 he died from aphasia which took even the power of him to put words on paper. I'm going to study one of his "problem plays" which is " A Doll's House ". In " A Doll's House ", Ibsen as he often does, criticizes society's general thoughts on women and the place of women in society. In fact, he criticizes how
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Approximate Word count = 1479
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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