Quote by Henrik Ibsen: “I must stand quite alone if I am to understand myself and everything about me.”

To really know who you are, you need space away from other people's expectations and judgements. This is Nora's declaration of independence at the end of A Doll's House — she is choosing solitude and self-knowledge over the comfortable roles others have assigned her.

A Doll's House premiered in Copenhagen in December 1879 and immediately caused controversy across Europe. The ending, in which Nora leaves her husband and children to find herself, was considered scandalous and was sometimes altered for productions by theatre managers who could not accept the original conclusion.

Norwegian playwright considered the father of modern drama. His plays, including A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, and An Enemy of the People, challenged social conventions around marriage, women's roles, and political conformity with a directness that shocked nineteenth-century audiences.