"Nora" in China: The Image-making of New Woman and its Transformation (1900s~1930s))

• Main Authors: Hui-chi Hsu, 許慧琦
• Other Authors: 呂芳上
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58713323720192342157

博士 === 國立政治大學 === 歷史學系 === 89 === Nora is the female protagonist of Norway dramist Ibsen''s play "A Doll''s House. It was based on a true story for critizing the darkness of families at the end of Nineteenth-century western captalist society. Nora is a middle-class housewife how has committed a crime for saving her husband, and when years later this thing was discovered, in stead of appreciating his wife and trying to protect her, this husband only cares about his own reputation and scold her badly. She finally got through that this eight-year marriage is just a game and she is just a doll of her husband without independent will and autonomy. She told her husband that she wants to educate herself first and become a human being. At the end, she leaves all her three kids and her husband, and walked out of their house. Since this play''s primere performance in 1879, the "open ending" of this play has arouse the furious discussion about "Nora''s leaving home" . Every society interpret and valuate Nora in terms of their ways of thinking and social values; there is no exception for Chinese society''s discussion about Nora.