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To view a work of art separately from it’s environment, ignoring the context, will often undermine important aspects of the work. However, embracing the context will allow one to appreciate the full scope and depth of the piece. In order to fully absorb and understand it, one must consider factors in the artist’s life and surroundings, i.e. the context. Henrik Ibsen created A Doll’s House between 1878 and 1880. Like any significant work …

…merely experienced and what one has spiritually lived through; for only the latter is proper matter for creative writing. Ibsen’s supporters eventually outnumbered his critics, and A Doll’s House, with the original ending, made him artistically, socially, and financially successful. The play is not nearly the social phenomenon it was at the time, but it’s content, like that of all great art, can be a lesson to us still. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** none