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Henrick Ibsen’s, A Doll House, reflects upon 19th century Norway - the society in which it was written. It was a highly patriarchal society in which the family was dominated by the man (husband, father) at great loss of the woman’s power. This power struggle is explored by Ibsen and he uses it to express his ideas and feelings about issues such as women’s rights, family roles, marriage/divorce and male dominance, to the reader or viewer. He uses actions, speech and other literary techniques to use the plays characters to show and represent these particular themes.

As a reflection on male dominance which Ibsen uses as a way of developing the highly patriarchal society, Torvald Helmer treats his wife, Nora, as his pos

The obvious power struggle between Nora and Torvald highlights and elaborates the themes of the drama such as women’s rights, family roles, male dominance and divorce at a high level. Helmer’s struggle to have power over his wife and family made him gain an amount of dominance not even he could handle. Helmer’s gain in power resulted in Nora losing power thus diminishing her rights almost completely.

session which he describes as being all his. “At all my loveliness, that’s all mine, mine alone, completely mine?” and “Now my little lark’s talking like a human being again.” Through these lines and many more, Ibsen shows that Helmer believes that he literally owns Nora, describing her in ways that someone would describe a mere object - a possession.

In Ibsen’s A Doll House, family roles are also looked upon. Helmer, obviously misled by his society, does not understand how a true and happy family must oper

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