• Antara Bhattacharya

The focus of this paper, ‘A Critical Study of Individual Versus Society in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House’ is to give a vivid idea about the society’s dynamics and the position of women in the latter half of the nineteenth century. A Doll’s House is one of the most celebrated plays of Henrik Ibsen. The play revolves around the Helmer family whose delusional world of happiness and harmony is shattered by a revelation from the past followed by Nora’s journey of self-realization and liberation. Furthermore, Ibsen brings out the pain and struggle of each of the characters who are the victims of societal pressures and senseless expectations. He shows how the characters in the play are puppets in the hands of the society which forces them to compromise with their values and moral standards, and most importantly expects women to accept an inferior status to men and be dependent on them. Through Nora’s character, Ibsen depicts how the society requires women to keep obeying the men in their life and not have a voice of their own. The end of the play signifies Nora’s act of rebellion against patriarchy where she leaves her husband’s house to undertake a journey of finding her true self as she realizes that all her life she has only been a ‘doll’ without an opinion or voice of her own, firstly in her father’s house and then at her husband’s.

Individual versus society, liberation, position of women, self-realization, societal pressures

"A CRITICAL STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL VERSUS SOCIETY IN HENRIK IBSEN’S A DOLL’S HOUSE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no.c90-c93, February-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202231.pdf

"A CRITICAL STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL VERSUS SOCIETY IN HENRIK IBSEN’S A DOLL’S HOUSE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 2, page no. ppc90-c93, February-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2202231.pdf