Nora (English spelling)

Japanese: ノーラ（英語表記）Nora

The heroine of Ibsen's controversial play A Doll's House (1879). In Japan she is called Nora, but her original pronunciation is Nora. She leaves her husband and three children behind, saying that she is a human being before she is a wife and mother, and is considered a symbolic figure of women's liberation, and the merits and demerits of her actions have been fiercely debated around the world. Apparently, a salon in Northern Europe even had a sign posted saying "No discussion of A Doll's House." At the German premiere, the leading actress refused to include a scene in which she abandons her child, so Ibsen was forced to rewrite the ending so that she stops running away after seeing her child's sleeping face, but he himself called this an "act of barbarism."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

イプセンの問題劇《人形の家》(1879)のヒロイン。日本ではノラと呼ばれたが，原発音はノーラ。妻や母である前に人間だといって夫と3人の子どもを置いて家を出るノーラは，女性解放の象徴的人物とされ，その行動の是非が世界中で激しく議論された。北欧のあるサロンでは〈人形の家の議論お断り〉のはり紙まで出たという。ドイツ初演の際，主演の女優が子どもを捨てる場面を拒否，イプセンはやむを得ず子どもの寝顔を見て家出をやめるという結末に書き直したが，自らそれを〈野蛮行為〉と呼んだ。

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