Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part B (2020)

Abstract
In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the central conflict revolves around Torvald’s controlling; demeaning treatment of his wife Nora. The tragedy of the story is not only to superiority of the husband over his wife but also the dehumanizing of the children, who are never given a voice or allowed the possibility of bettering their position. They begin the story under an institution that has marginalized them, and they remain confined to subhuman status throughout the play. In this way, Ibsen’s work; as he claims goes beyond being a work about woman’s rights and becomes instead a work dealing with the rights of all human struggling under an oppressive, patriarchal society.