The title play, A Doll's House (1879), takes place over three days of Christmas in the comfortable Norwegian home of Torvald Helmer, a newly appointed bank manager, and his wife Nora, whom he treats as a charming pet, calling her his songbird and squirrel. Years earlier, when Torvald was gravely ill and doctors advised a year in Italy, Nora secretly borrowed the money from the lawyer Krogstad, forging her dying father's signature as guarantor.
Author
Henrik Ibsen
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“I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child”
“I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are”
“Mother, give me the sun”