Henrik Ibsen: Difference between revisions

Famous Norwegian playwright, and celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians. Many of Ibsen's plays were critiques of the morality of his time, residing very far to the cynical end of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] and often having [[No Ending]] in a traditional storytelling sense. A noteworthy example is ''[[A Doll's House|A Dolls House]]'', about a housewife and mother of three who has been taking deceptive means to support her family by herself. Her husband never suspects, but [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|treats her as a child in a big toy house]] (hence ''A Doll's House''). The play as Ibsen wrote it ended with Nora flat-out leaving her husband after he reveals how he thinks of her: the last sound of the play is described as "the most famous door slam in the history of theater." However, for his German audience, Ibsen was pressured into writing a new ending, where the now self-assured and defiant Nora slips back into her meek role as a housewife when she is reminded of her children. Both endings are usually included in translations of the script, albeit with the German ending in significantly smaller letters.

 

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