Santa Monica College A Doll House Tragedy of Two Endings Summary

Your initial post should respond to both questions below and should be around 300 words. In your response, be sure to include reference to specific moments, language, and details from the plays. In other words, be sure to include specific textual evidence.

1. When Ibsen realized that certain people might be inclined to change the ending of A Doll’s House to make it less shocking for audiences at the time, he wrote his own alternate ending (Links to an external site.). In this version, Nora decides to stay in the end. Which ending do you feel the play prepared you to expect—one in which Nora stays or one in which she leaves—and why? What pattern would you point to in the text that prepared you to expect the ending that you expected?

2. In what way did the short film Nora elucidate an aspect of the play for you? Provide an example from the film that helped you to understand a specific aspect of the play more deeply.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2542/2542-h/2542-h…

I added the link to A Doll’s House story, and also please use detailed and long quotes.