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26th Jan '13 1:05:47 PM MarkLungo

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Famous Norwegian playwright, and celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians. Many of Ibsen's plays were critiques of the morality of his time, residing very far to the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism and often having NoEnding in a traditional storytelling sense. A noteworthy example is ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'', about a housewife and mother of three who has been taking deceptive means to support her family by herself. Her husband never suspects, but [[ManicPixieDreamGirl treats her as a child in a big toy house]] (hence ''A Doll's House''). The play as Ibsen wrote it ended with Nora flat-out leaving her husband after he reveals how he thinks of her: the last sound of the play is described as "the most famous door slam in the history of theater." However, for his German audience, Ibsen was pressured into writing a new ending, where the now self-assured and defiant Nora slips back into her meek role as a housewife when she is reminded of her children. Both endings are usually included in translations of the script, albeit with the German ending in significantly smaller letters.

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A famous Norwegian playwright, and celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians. Many of Ibsen's plays were critiques of the morality of his time, residing very far to the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism and often having NoEnding in a traditional storytelling sense. A noteworthy example is ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'', about a housewife and mother of three who has been taking deceptive means to support her family by herself. Her husband never suspects, but [[ManicPixieDreamGirl treats her as a child in a big toy house]] (hence ''A Doll's House''). The play as Ibsen wrote it ended with Nora flat-out leaving her husband after he reveals how he thinks of her: the last sound of the play is described as "the most famous door slam in the history of theater." However, for his German audience, Ibsen was pressured into writing a new ending, where the now self-assured and defiant Nora slips back into her meek role as a housewife when she is reminded of her children. Both endings are usually included in translations of the script, albeit with the German ending in significantly smaller letters.

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