So controversial was the drama then that Europe's most famous actress at the time, Hedwig Niemann-Raabe, refused to play Nora, and "A Doll's House" was sometimes performed with an alternate ending.
When the play was first presented in Germany in 1880, the actress Hedwig Niemann-Raabe refused to act the final scene, on the grounds that "I would never leave my children". Ibsen was forced to write a different "happy ending", where Helmer forces Nora to the nursery door and she sinks down helpless before it.
Summaries. Years ago, Nora Helmer committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out.
The play was so controversial that Ibsen was forced to write a second ending that he called “a barbaric outrage” to be used only when necessary. The controversy centered around Nora's decision to abandon her children, and in the second ending she decides that the children need her more than she needs her freedom.
In Germany, the actress Hedwig Niemann-Raabe refused to perform the play as written, declaring, "I would never leave my children!"
Ibsen was forced to create an alternate ending for German audiences after actress Hedwig Niemann-Raabe refused to perform the play as written. In the alternate ending, Nora sees her children after the argument with Torvald and collapses as the curtain falls, implying that she stays at the house.
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The macaroons come to represent Nora's disobedience and deceit.
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