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August Strindberg

Swedish playwright August Strindberg has a similarly critical view, suggesting that Nora’s penultimate decision was “dangerously subversive” through “undermind[ing]” tradition and the “authority” of “patriarchal ideas”.

Oswald Crawford

Writer Oswald Crawford stated in 1891 that Nora, despite being as “charming” as “doll women” can be, is “unprincipled” and “not feminine”

Joan Templeton

Writer Joan Templeton stated in her 2015 book “Ibsen’s Women” that the “power” of the play lies in its “feminism”. This is a revision from a 1972 statement, where she suggested the play to “speak” to the “truth of the human soul”.

Amata Bhattacharya 

stating that all characters, like Torvald, are victims of “societal pressures” and “senseless expectations”

Errol Durbach

South African-Canadian Ibsen lecturer. “Deep structure” ensures its “perennial importance”.