Zastave nad Norom Helmer
Whose Flag Does Nora Helmer Fly?

Summary/Abstract: This interpretation focuses on Ibsen’s play Nora or „A Doll’s House“, including a critical review of one of the prefaces (the most frequent ones in students’ editions) where Nora is presented as an infantile woman controlled by her husband – an interpretation which is not based on the original text. It also includes a critical review on the feminist analysis of the play, which reduces Nora to women’s rights struggle by overlooking the mechanisms which Ibsen uses to question the 19th century society and culture. It tells us about things that should be avoided in a literature class: namely, the lack of interpretation implies discrediting the play’s author, the play itself, as well as preserving the basic values upon which the present-day society is constructed.

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