When one reads Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Today, he may find it very difficult to imagine how daring it might have seemed at the time it was written. Nora’s actions were almost unheard of at the time the play was written, and were thus rather controversial. For Millennia, women were primarily child-bearers and homemakers, their domestic responsibilities generally prevented them from participating in hunts and waging war. Consequently, they were not allowed …showed first 75 words of 547 total…

…showed last 75 words of 547 total…effects, and predicting a change in contemporary views, he stressed the importance of woman's realization of this believed inferiority. Women should be looked upon as their own persons with their own successes and failures. Nora’s development throughout the story shows an accurate prediction of the future of women’s rights. First the comprehension of the plight and then the awareness of what must be done in order to make women the equals of men.