"A Doll's House" Henrik IbsenHELMER: Come on then [grabs his arm]. But first, you will see your children for the last time! NORA: Let me take it! I won't see them! I can't ! HELMER: (pulls him towards the left door) You will see them. (Opens the door and says softly) Look there, they are sleeping peacefully and without worries. Tomorrow they wake up and call their mother, they will be... orphans. NORA: [trembling] Motherless! HELMER: As you once were. NORA: Motherless! [struggles with herself, drops her travel bag and says.] Oh, it's a sin against myself, but I can't leave them. [Half slumps near the door.] HELMER: [happily, but gently] Nora! [curtain closes] Ibsen's play so upset German directors that they forced him to write an alternative ending. Ibsen called the changed ending "an act of barbaric violence against the play." The room was a scandal described by furious Victorian newspapers as "...an open drain" and "a toilet" and met by protesters in several towns. “A Doll’s House” was the Passion of the Christ or Fahrenheit 911 of its day. Laden with brutal attacks and angry symbolism towards its middle-class audience, it is no wonder that this play caused so much controversy. Ibsen's audience was the middle class of the new industrial revolution. Before Ibsen's time, the theater was only a place reserved for the aristocratic classes. Ibsen wrote for the middle class, choosing topics and language that would appeal to and offend them. New middle-class values ​​included hard work, sexual morality, education, thrift, and prudent marriage. Appearance was extremely important and a happy, healthy, idealized life was demanded by a middle-class man and his family. Furthermore, the most sacred (and only) duties that women could assume were motherhood and submission to their husbands. The most obvious way Ibsen draws class parallels is through the relationships between characters. Christine Linde is more independent than Norah, she was forced to follow her own path in life. She practices little or no Victorian middle-class values ​​(she is a widow, no children, no money). Norah is the opposite. She has everything that Victorian society approves of. However, Christine is the woman who knows what the truth is, she knows what is right and she is the voice of reason who believes that the truth is the key to any marriage. Through these characters in this play, Ibsen attacks the lifestyle and ideals of his audience..