Critics

• She herself performs the miracle that sets her free - lee
• His love is only a form of possessing her and exploiting her completely' - Rufus
• By the time she slams the door of the doll's house both her Personality and the concept of the family have been transformed. - Ahmad and Gawel
• Early response Ibsen accused of 'loving the repulsive' and the ending was called 'illogical and immoral - Germany
• Torvald could not have acted any differently towards his 'babyish little wife - scott
• The slam of the door behind her was more momental than the cannon of Waterloo - shaw
• "A dolls house was, and is, shocking" - Byatt
• Nora is 'the demon in the house' - Templeton
• 'krogstad is a mere pawn of the plot' - bentley
• 'Her departure announced a great awakening in European drama as well as in women's egalitarianism' - gray
• The play shows a 'critical scrutiny of the lives and values of the bourgeois classes' - Ledger
• 'Christine Linde acts as a catalyst for Nora's rebellion' - Ledger
• Nora seen as 'a monster and unnatural woman' - long
• 'Torvald...is as much a victim as Nora' - thomas
• Nora puts 'love before legality' - duncan
• When the woman first has risen, she will never let herself be stopped again. - Skram
• Nora transforms from a doll, a possession... into an individual human being - Balaky and Sulaiman
• 'Nora...finds herself fin opposition to the demands of a hostile society' - ledger
• 'Her flirtation with Rank...is another indication of the more spirited woman beneath the convention-respecting surface' - gray
• The illusion of bourgeois contentment unravels - rustin
• Everywoman's struggle with Everyman - templeton