This paper is on "A Doll House: Isben's Truth. Isben views about women were obviously right on. He believed to the fullest in spite of society's umbrella of contempt. He saw the plight of women in that era. The "barbaric outrage," was that of having a woman give up herself completely for her husband and family. Society won the ending of the play; that, however, was only part of the battle. To a nineteenth-century audience, however, the idea of a woman casting aside her marriage vows and acting against her husband's will was sacrilegious and obscene; the idea that a mother would abandon her children was at direct odds with nineteenth-century notions of womanhood, which defined women as mothers. Nora's claim that her duty to herself is as important as her duty as a wife and mother was deemed immoral by critics everywhere. Against his wishes, Ibsen was coerced into writing an alternative ending for the play when it was staged in Germany in 1880.
