ended at the way Nora spoke to her husband. At the time, marriage was a private thing, not suited for discussion in one of the most public of art forms, and divorce was something one did not bring up at all. Many called Ibsen an anarchist for suggesting that women leave their families in search of themselves. Ibsen was not suggesting anyone do anything. His reply was that his job was to ask questions, not to answer them. He was mearly requesting that people look at, and think about, the social structure they support. One of Ibsens main ideologies was that every human being has the right to act on private judgement against conventional beliefs. The play reflects this clearly, and the rebel in it is a woman for a reason. Ibsen knew no one would contemplate his theme so thoroughly had Nora been a man or child. Many view this play as a feminist drama, one created to better womens lives. Ibsens only purpose was to better human interactions. He once offended a dinner party, thrown in honor of him, by a womans rights group, when he stated that he did not know what the womans cause was. He did not see womans causes as any different than human causes. In Ibsens notes for A Dolls House, he speaks of two types of moral consciousness, one for men and one for women. He felt that the two did not understand each other, but, in practical life, women were judged by masculine law as though they were men. "A woman cannot be herself in todays society." He was also quoted as saying that: "A man is easy to study, but one never fully understands a woman. They are a sea which none can fathom." The rule over Norway, by Sweden, made freedom a popular topic of that time. Ibsen, though, saw political freedom and personal freedom as two very different things. I shall never agree to identify Freedom with political freedom. What you call Freedom, I call freedoms, and what I call the battle ...
