The main plot and ideas expressed in A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
Main Plot Lawyer Helmer has just been offered a job as a bank manager and is looking to make a big move. His wife, Nara, asks him to help her find a job for her old classmate, Mrs. Linden, so Helmer fires his junior clerk, Koloksztai, and prepares Mrs. Linden to take over the vacated position. Nara had borrowed money to pay for her husband's medical treatment some years ago, and inadvertently committed the crime of forging a note, which Koloksztai used to blackmail Nara. Helmo read Koloksztai's letter of denunciation and became furious, calling Nala a "bad thing", "criminal", "lowly woman", and saying that his future was all ruined. When Koloksztai was persuaded by Mrs. Linden to return the note, Helmut exclaimed happily, "Nara, I'm all right, I forgive you." But Nara did not forgive him, because she has seen, her husband is only concerned about his status and reputation, the so-called "love", "care", just take her as a doll. So she ran away. Main artistic features: the structure is tight and complete; the use of suspense and ambush is very unique; the dialogues of the characters are full of debates, bringing "discussion" into the drama; the "retrospective method" is successfully used. The dialogues in the play are also very good, which not only meet the requirements of character and plot development, but also rich in rationality, which help to reveal the theme and make the readers or viewers have a strong impression on the social problems raised by the author, which has a great influence on the development of realist drama later on. A Doll's House is a righteous indictment of marriage under capitalist privatization and of the bourgeoisie's centrality of male power.