Nora
leaves her husband, when she realises he is not who she thought him to be. Her
role in their marriage was to be a doll, and the home was a doll’s house.
In love
for her husband, she forges a document. But she is found out and the husband
threatens to throw here out, but finds he cannot because it might damage his
own reputation.
When he
later wants to reconcile, it is too late. Her hopes and fancies about their
marriage are shattered, and she decides to flee from both husband and children,
flee the doll’s house and find her own life.
In the
Victorian age, this play was so scandalous, that many theatres banned it since
marriage was seen as the foundation of society.
Eitt dukkuheim was written in 1879.