Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

The famous work of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is always criticized in which he tells the readers about the lady Nora who ditched her children. The play has given new dimension to the meaning of sacred word `mother'. The worked done by him against the motherhood upset the fans of Henrik Ibsen. This is not just limited to the play's audience but also put confusion in the mind of the literature students to find the cause or any rationale logic behind the felony against motherhood. There are numbers of critics on the felony against motherhood but the critics generally failed to figure out what the play actually tells about fatherhood (Ferguson & Robert ,1996).

Nora's friend had to marry her husband because of the fact she had no option left. After the death of her father, she had to support her ill mother and young siblings. The decision of marrying with him was just based on the situations of that time where she was financially weak and had no one to support her and family. She married in the hope that she would have rich husband who helped her in coming out of such financial, economic and social crisis but her failed to do so (Griffith & Gareth, 1993, pp. 164-165).

In the play the missing of father is suffused all classes. Even the nurse maid and custodian of Nora's children Anna Marie was compelled to live with Nora's family without the presence of her illegitimate child who was just newly born. She explained that she had to leave her children if she has to do the job.

The play A Doll's House exhibits portray of fatherhood not merely as missing but also ethically and socially contaminated. Nils Krogstad badly trying to cash himself, he commended the serious ...