Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906) was an important Norwegian dramatist, social critic and agitator for women's rights. Key words: A Doll’s House, Feminism, Ibsen, Nora, Torvald Helmer. This submission also attempts to uphold a comparative study of Nora, Clytemnestra, and Lady Macbeth as well. This paper proposes to draw attention to the dramatic art as a paradigm of the post-modern feminism. Considering the femme fatale character of Ibsen, the most renowned and powerful playwright, also known as the father figure of the postmodern era writing in Norwegian language, especially the powerful and domineering female protagonist cum heroine, Nora Helmer. Actually, the purpose of my paper is to focus on the feminist message as articulated in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. The aim of the playwright is to emphasize upon the female power with a view to repressing the male domination and tradition. In the play, the dramatist has prioritized the female domination and power more than the male pelf and rule.
She has raised a fiery voice or initiated a dreadful revolution against the traditional customs and gender discrimination with a view to equalizing human rights. It aims to depict and examine critically feminist issues through portraying Nora Helmer who is the representative of not only the 19th century Scandinavian Bourgeois order and custom but also the universal feminism. Through this adventurous and revolutionary woman, my purpose is to reach the feminist message out to the post-modern generations. In this paper, the powerful woman character of that of Nora Helmer as impacted in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House has been focused on. With the postmodernizing age, women began to see the universe with their own eyes and not through the male gaze. In patriarchal Bourgeois society, the matriarchal community has been “humiliated”, “afflicted”, “silenced” and “tortured” socially, politically, culturally and economically. For long centuries, women in the traditional social order and system have always been considered subservient to men.
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