A Doll's House: A closer look at Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828 and died on May 23, 1906. He is know as one of the greatest Norwegian’s writers of all time and was a national symbol. He is know for his works in “A Doll’s House”, “The Wild Duck”, and “Ghosts”. He wrote a lot of the Victorian times in Europe and gave a realistic and “scandalous” outlook. When reading “A Doll’s House” your able to catch the secretive elements in the story that make you think differently of the people back then, as in things may not be as they seem.
Henrik spent a lot of his time in a theater where he produced more then 145 plays, but did not display any of his own. Henrik also had a illegitimate son that he did not raise and had to pay child support. Then marrying Suzannah Thoresen and ended up living poorly where he had to leave his home. I believe some of those events influenced some of his plays like “A Doll’s House” because it speaks of a misconception of the role of men and women during the time of the Victorian age. His life does represent the title of the play “A Doll’s House” because it shows that doll’s house may be nice and pretty, but in real life when everything is going perfect, something may be wrong.