"A Doll's House" and Personal Identity

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The paper shows how Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" is a universal story of the quest for selfhood and true personal identity. The paper asserts that this story is timeless since men and women struggle now more than ever to find their authentic selves.

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"Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House "(1789) may seem to only have to do with 1960's and 1970's era women's issues when many women were still struggling to be equal in any way, at work or as persons in their own right. Then many women found it difficult to enter professions like medicine or engineering dominated by men. There was also more social pressure on women (like the social pressure on Nora) to marry, have children, take care of a home and 'know their place' (outside men's arenas). Obviously much has changed since then. But I feel Ibsen's A Doll's House remains relevant and that it is not and never was only a play about women's rights even if that seems its most obvious focus. A Doll's House can be looked at freshly from the perspective of today's much different world - but also one in which plenty of (if not the same) pressures and expectations still exist, and one where men and women alike struggle perhaps now more than ever to find their authentic selves."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House [full online text]. 14 Dec 2007 <http://www.online -literature.com/ibsen/dolls-house/2/html>.

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