The play dollhouse written by Henrik Ibsen was definitely a drama and nothing less. The main character being Nora the bank managers wife she finds herself in a world of trouble when her world poses itself to come crashing down as she desperately tries to keep a secret she has held from her husband for years. Nora forges her dead fathers signature in order to loan money from her husbands employee, Krogstad and it comes back to bite her when he demands she help him keep his job after Torvald her husband plans on firing him.
When Nora's world comes crashing down and she decides to leave it shows how much power she really had that she didnt know about. Although she left her children she left them in better hands than she could provide by being the main caretaker and that shows an incredible amount of strength and her being kept down is what I feel the above picture represents which is of a production of the play A dolls house by the production group Micocci. Nora being the tallest one she could easily push back but remained subservient until the end where she decided to stand on her own and live as a human being and not as a play thing for another's amusement. Although this playscript is not modern it still sends a strong message everywhere to women and even men to not be kept down and to learn to stand on their own.
Another thing that caught my attention in this play was the fraudulence which really just plays to my Criminal justice major. I saw that and immediately knew how much trouble Nora was really facing because even though its not based on modern times its always been wrong in the eyes of the law.
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