Therese Nortvedtīs trewatment of motifs that can be related to empathic insight into the world of women makes it natural to approach her illustrations to Ibsenīs play A Dollīs House, written in Italy in 1878-79, with tha expectation that we will encounter an interpretation that will broaden our understanding of the woman Nora. The core of the drama is that women and men live within their own perceptions of reality, where the woman represents the more intuitive, natural and spontanous way of thinking, while the manīs point of view is controlled more by rules. When the woman takes into consideration what she perceives as obvious and correct, and this conflicts with the manīs wish to comply with the law, this results in a schism.
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