Summary Very cheerful, the pretty and girlish Nora Helmer enters from the outdoors, humming a tune while she deposits her parcels on the hall table. “Is that my little lark twittering out there?” calls her husband, Torvald, from the study, and he emerges to greet her. They talk about their […]

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Nora Helmer The central character, who is a “doll” for her husband to dress up, show off, and give direction to. She is childlike, romping easily with her three children. Torvald Helmer Nora’s husband, a bank manager, who was once gravely ill and needed to go to a southern climate […]

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Once the subject of public controversy, defended only by the avant-garde theater critics of the nineteenth century, Ibsen’s prose dramas now appear as successful television plays and are an essential part of the repertory theaters all over the world. No longer inflaming audience reactions, the dramas are now acceptable fare […]

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Nora Helmer once secretly borrowed a large sum of money so that her husband could recuperate from a serious illness. She never told him of this loan and has been secretly paying it back in small installments by saving from her household allowance. Her husband, Torvald, thinks her careless and […]

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