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jo_strader 's review for:
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
A fascinating look into a woman coming of age in an age where women were treated as frivolous creatures or as Isben cunningly suggests as dolls. The feminist in me says - Go, Nora! Slam that door on that ungrateful piece of carnage. But the mother in me says, Oh, no! Don't leave the children too! I realize that being a mother is another role that Nora was forced to play and that we shrink away from a subject as touchy as a woman not wanting her own children. But I wonder if Nora will be able to find herself. She shows a lot of introspection in the last act, and I hope that she will find what she is looking for, but I don't know that her society will allow her to examine her unexplored depths. I got married when I was just 20 years old. I didn't know myself. I am so grateful that my husband allowed me to discover who I was meant to be and encouraged me to do so. So much of Nora's society would have forced her into a mold of the ideal woman that she had no room left to breathe let alone discover herself. Women are still held to a standard. How many women are judged based on how clean her house is? What about the woman on the cover of a magazine? And let's not forget having perfectly behaved children. A Doll's House still resonates with readers because we still have the ideal woman locked into our brains. It will continue to speak to readers until we view women differently.