se his work in verse, influenced by romanticism and drawn from folk songs and love songs. The second phase consist of his plays of prose realism. This is what he is most famous for. The final phase is his works dealing with modern, realistic themes but using more symbol and metaphor (140). The 1st critics to defend his works were Bernard Shaw, Georg Brandes, Edmund Gosse, and William Archer (141). These critics were instrumental in an over all acceptance of drama. Ibsen is credited with the introduction of the social problem to drama (140). This is why he is ?Regarded as the father of modern drama,? Ibsen brought realism and concerns to a European theater that had been circumscribed by romanticism (TCLC pg.40).Nora?s childish acts and navet are how she keeps her husband from knowing what she has done. Lou Salome says in his essay in 1892, ?Her [Nora] childishness creates her charm, her danger, and her destiny,? (226). She exhibits her childishness and naivete in many different ways throughout the story. We see one example of this in the opening of the story when Nora returns from town with all the packages and the tree. According to Salome, ?Christmas is a children?s festival, and Nora is a child,? (226). She also brought macaroons, which she proceeds to hide from her husband; he fears they will rot her teeth. When confronted Torvald says, ? Surely my sweet tooth hasn?t been running riot in town today, has she?? When she replies that she has not been running riot through town, Torvald does not quite believe her. He says, ? My sweet tooth really didn?t make a little detour through the confectioner?s? Nor even munched a macaroon or two?? ( A Doll?s House 1199). Nora assures him that she has not and that she would not dream of going against him because she had given him her word about her macaroon habit. Once again, we see Nora?s childish and devious behavior come forth.John Northam?s opinion backs my idea in his essay in ...
