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...Your comparison of Liv Ullmann and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House was apt. Ibsen was one of the enlightened few of the 19th century who realized that women had problems requiring serious consideration from our conventional society. The saga of Liv Ullmann brings a live modern woman to speak her own piece from her own experience...
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Another title might be Beyond the Doll's House, for if the book turns out to be all that Liv says it is, it will reveal what Ibsen never did: what Nora found on the other side of that door...
...affair with Bergman, Liv resembled another famous Norwegian woman, Nora Helmer in Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). Like Nora, Liv was loved and protected but also patronized. "I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald," said Ibsen's heroine to her husband. "But you would have it so." Like Nora, Liv rebelled. As Nora's husband commented shortly before she closed that famous door on her domestic life, "she is terribly self-willed, this sweet little person...
...major issues of the play are centered in the complex character of Brutus, a man "with himself at war," an idealist who, as it turns out, can no more foretell the dire outcome of his well-meant acts than can Gregers Werle, the great idealist in Ibsen's The Wild Duck. James Ray gives us a Brutus that is reasonably well spoken, and rather restrained as befits an adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy. But he does not reach the deep intellectuality attained by James Mason in the film, and does not sufficiently earn the posthumous tribute paid...