DOLL'S HOUSE
33 videos • 795 views • by Litt up A Doll's House is a family drama for the obvious reason that it concerns a family. It is a "drama" because it is a play, a piece of literature that is never fully realized until it is put on stage in front of an audience. It is also a modern tragedy because it focuses on the trials and tribulations that face women in a patriarchal society. The play explores not only the status of women but how they are victims of social forces to the extent that they are left with the role of a “doll-wife.” In this tragedy, we don't get blood and death at the end; we get the death of a marriage and of the characters' old selves. Ibsen shows Nora, and maybe all the other characters, trapped in a society defined by restrictive gender roles. In order to become more than a doll, Nora must shatter the cornerstone that her entire society is based on: marriage. The play can also be categorized as a realist drama. In a realist drama, the characters talk in a close approximation of everyday speech. The speeches are straightforward, conversational, and concerned with normal, everyday things; which makes the play really easy for a modern audience to associate with.