Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's <italic style="font-style: italic">A Doll's House</italic> and the Inner Void in Fosse's <italic style="font-style: italic">Freedom</italic>

Wei Wang

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Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's <italic style="font-style: italic">A Doll's House</italic> and the Inner Void in Fosse's <italic style="font-style: italic">Freedom</italic>

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Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's A Doll's House and the Inner Void in Fosse's Freedom
Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's A Doll's House and the Inner Void in Fosse's Freedom
English Department, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430062, China
2025年6卷第5期页码：330-334
纸质出版：2025-10-30
DOI：10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786572.20250605
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Wei Wang. (2025). Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's A Doll's House and the Inner Void in Fosse's Freedom. 文艺发展研究（英文版）, 6(5), 330-334.

Wei Wang.Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's A Doll's House and the Inner Void in Fosse's Freedom[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2025,06(05):330-334.
Wei Wang. (2025). Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's A Doll's House and the Inner Void in Fosse's Freedom. 文艺发展研究（英文版）, 6(5), 330-334. DOI： 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786572.20250605.

Wei Wang.Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's A Doll's House and the Inner Void in Fosse's Freedom[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2025,06(05):330-334. DOI： 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786572.20250605.

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This paper traces the evolution of the philosophical theme of freedom from Henrik Ibsen's model of social liberation to Jon Fosse's conception of freedom as an existential void. While Ibsen's

A Doll's House

culminates in Nora Helmer's iconic departure—a definitive act of emancipation from patriarchal and bourgeois institutions—it deliberately leaves a narrative and philosophical void concerning the experience of freedom itself. Jon Fosse

hailed as the "new Ibsen"

directly occupies this void with his play

Freedom

. His work shifts the terrain of freedom from Ibsen's social stage to an existential landscape

staging a confrontation with the anxiety

loneliness

and "inner void" that absolute liberty can unveil. This analysis argues that where Ibsen's drama empowers the individual to break free from society

Fosse's questions whether the self can endure the burden of being free. Ultimately

the two playwrights together reframe freedom not as a state to be possessed

but as a perpetual and often tragic process of striving—a defining paradox of the modern condition.

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Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's A Doll's House and the Inner Void in Fosse's Freedom

Staging Freedom: Social Liberation in Ibsen's A Doll's House and the Inner Void in Fosse's Freedom

DOI：10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786572.20250605

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