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A Doll's House was based on the life of Laura Kieler (maiden name Laura Smith Petersen), a good friend of Ibsen. Much that happened between Nora and Torvald happened to Laura and her husband, Victor.
Henrik Johan Ibsen (/ ˈɪbsən /; [ 1 ]Norwegian: [ˈhɛ̀nrɪk ˈɪ̀psn̩]; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.
In an earlier draft, Ibsen named her Mariane Rising, clearly after his aunt (father's younger half-sister) and godmother Mariane Paus who grew up (with Ibsen's father) on the stately farm Rising near Skien; while she was later renamed Juliane Tesman, her character was modeled after Mariane Paus.
Nora Helmer is the heroine of the play. Still a young woman, she is married to Torvald Helmer and has three children. At the play’s outset, she is bubbly and carefree, excited about Christmas… read analysis of Nora Helmer
Hedda Gabler has married a rather dull academic, a cultural historian named Jørgen Tesman, but she continues to use her maiden name. At the beginning of the play, they have just returned from their long honeymoon.
Hedda Gabler (1890) is the last of Henrik Ibsen ’s realist plays, published at the height of his fame and performed all across Europe in the last decade of the nineteenth century.
28 sty 2020 · In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll’s House, characters use false surfaces and middle class comforts to conceal their struggles and neuroses. As the play unfolds, the characters face the consequences of these suppressed feelings, with each individual handling the consequences differently.
