A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway on March 20, 1828. At age 15, Ibsen moved to Grimstad where he supported himself as an apothecary's apprentice and practiced writing on the side. In 1879 Ibsen created his masterpiece titled A Doll's House. A Doll's House is a story about middle class people named Nora and Helmer. Nora must question the foundation of everything she believes in when her marriage is put to the test. Nora borrows money from a …

…life, the dead father and her eight years marriage 'with a stranger'" (Bradbrook 298). To Nora, money, survival, and independence become her private, personal concerns not those of her husband. As shown throughout the story, money is the biggest resource needed for survival and independence. The aspects of money, survival, and independence are closely related in the story. Ibsen shows the complex relationships among money, survival and independence through the main characters in A Doll's House.