What is the setting for A Doll's House?

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in 1879, and it was a contemporary drama at that time. All three acts of
the play take place with the same set, which is the living area of the Helmer home. The home is
situated in an unspecified village in Norway. The room is decorated tastefully but not
ostentatiously, consistent with the middle-class lifestyle of the Helmer family. As act 1 opens,
it is Christmas week.has been Christmas shopping, and a porter brings the Christmas tree into
the home. Act 2 occurs on Christmas Day in the same home. The confined setting of the play
reinforces the theme of Nora's restricted lifestyle. She feels as if she is her husband's doll,
and she realizes that her children have been her dolls. The setting, then, is the
"dollhouse," which is a better translation for Americans of Ibsen's title than the
British English equivalent "doll's house." Nora's slamming the door of her house when
she walks out on her husband at the end of the play signifies her moving on to a broader setting
for her life where she, presumably, will be able to find out who she really
is.