- Nora leaves her husband Torvald after she realizes that her marriage is nothing more than a "doll house" in which she plays the role of doll in a perfect house
- when she is blackmailed by Krogstad because of an improper act that she commits in order to save her husband's life - forging her father's signature - her husband shows disgust at what she had done instead of gratitude - his only concern is his reputation
An Enemy of the People
- Dr. Stockmann is a popular citizen of a small town. The town has recently invested a large amount of public and private funds towards the development of baths, a project led by Dr. Stockmann and his brother, the Mayor
- the town is expecting a surge in tourism and prosperity from the baths
- However, as the baths are starting to succeed, Dr. Stockman discovers that waste products from the town's tannery are contaminating the baths. He nonetheless finds it difficult to get through to the authorities with a solution and the Mayor warns his brother that he should "acquiesce in subordinating himself to the community."
- Stockmann rents a hall in order to hold a town meeting and convince the people to close the baths but everyone just turns on him. Stockmann declares that "the strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone."
- Stockmann considers leaving town with his family but decides to stay and set up a school for poor children instead.
The Wild Duck
- Gregers Werle returns to his hometown and is reunited with his boyhood friend Hjalmar Ekdal
- over the course of the play the secrets behind the Ekdals' apparently happy home are revealed to Gregers, who insists on pursuing the absolute truth, or the "summons of the ideal"
Hedda Gabbler
- Hedda Gabbler, daughter of an impoverished general, has just returned from her honeymoon with Jorgen Tesman, a young reliable but uninteresting academic
- she doesn't love him and fears she may be pregnant
- the return of her former love, Ejlert Lovborg, who is a writer, throws their lives into disarray
- thanks to a relationship with Hedda's former schoolmate Thea Elvstad, he shows signs of rehabilitation and has just completed his masterpiece, thus posing a threat to Tesman as a competitor for a university professorship
- Hedda is jealous of Thea and hopes to come between her and Ejlert
- Tesman returns home from a party and finds the manuscript of Ejlert's masterpiece.
- Lovborg confesses to Hedda that he has lost the manuscript but instead of telling him it has been found, Hedda burns it and encourages him to consider suicide.
- Hedda tells her husband she has destroyed the manuscript to secure their future so that Lovborg will not become professor
- When news comes that Lovborg has indeed killed himself, Tesman and Thea are determined to try to reconstruct his book. Hedda is shocked to discover from Judge Brack that Ejlert's death in a brothel was probably accidental. She shoots herself.
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