Reading Henrik Ibsen's A DOLL HOUSE （1） I just finished reading the play A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen, a great play writer and dramatist in the world of literature. The ending of the play is that Nora, the main character and the heroine of feminism, left her house to find her new and independent self. The last act is one of the most marvelous in the play and the conversation between Nora and his husband is very intense and inspiring. Nora left his husband and children because she found out that the so-called happy family is just an illusition and his husband, though treat her like a sweet bird with love, is just a hyprocate man who decamouflaged himself when he found out that Nora might stain his reputation. Nora lived in a doll house where people played to be in love and happy and satisfied, and where the wife is just a doll or a puppet of the husband. Like Nora said to her husband Torvald, "...then I went from Papa's hands into yours. You arranged everything to your own taste, and so I got the same taste as you--or pretended to; I can't remember. I guess a little of both, first one, then the other. Now when I look back, it seems as if I'd lived here like a beggar--just from hand to mouth." Honestly speaking, I'm truely touched when I read this paragraph, because from Nora I saw the shadows of many Chinese women in my life, they are honest, kind and plain, they love their husbands and children, but with a traditional education and sense of value, they always make concessions to make their family happy rather than themselves, and the key point is that they don't control the economy in the family, so they have to "beg" their husband to give what they want, and the society regards women firstly as a wife and a mother, not as an independent human being. (continuing...)