Correlation between symbols and themes in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

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Henrik Ibsen is assumed as one of the major Norwegian dramatist, social critic and thinker of the 19th century, who criticized the social issues due to secularization, Darwinism, lost in beliefs and faith and the independence desire of the individuals. He is described as ?the realist, the iconoclast, the successful or failed idealist, the poet, the psychologist, the romantic? (Lyons, 1987, 4). Dealing covertly with the impacts of the changes of 19th century and the age of Enlightenment in a patriarchal society, Ibsen suggest the significance of the realistic depiction of hypocrisy and deceit of the middle-class people, of the individual freedom and of self-assertion, particularly for women. Henrik Ibsen, as a modernist and feminist, focused on the liberation of women in his literary works; particularly in his famous work A Doll’s House.Ibsen’s main concern in his plays, particularly in A Doll’s House, is on the significance of truth and individual freedom, not only for women but also for men, which can heal all the cures of Victorian society. This study aims at the interpretation of symbols within the text analysis of Ibsen’s famous play, A Doll’s House, to present one of the major themes of Ibsen: the clash between the appearance and realit