September 18,2005

A Doll's House

"There are two kinds of moral laws, two kinds of conscience, one for men and one, quite different, for women. They don't understand each other; but in practical life, woman is judged by masculine law, as though she weren't a woman but a man. 

The wife in the play ends by having no idea what is right and what is wrong: natural feelings on the one hand and belief in authority on the other lead her to utter distraction.

A woman cannot he herself in modern society. It is an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint" 

lbsen's first notes for A DOLL’S HOUSE, October 19th 1878

        在開始看《A Doll’s House》之前,我以為又是一部像《The Yellow Wall Paper》一般的女人被壓榨到瘋掉的故事。隨著劇情的演變,我看不到女主角Nora將被關起來的跡象,才知道她早就是被關在那房間的洋娃娃,經歷一些事情後,決定出走找尋真的自己,並了解何謂真理。

        A Doll’s House》是挪威知名劇作家「現代戲劇之父」Henrik Ibsen1828-1906)在1879年所寫的寫實主義的作品。女主角Nora看似一個涉世未深、整天無憂無慮被丈夫稱做「小鳥兒」、「小松鼠」的妻子,在幾個意外的訪客中,道出了之前為了丈夫的重病醫療費用又不忍煩擾垂危的父親之下,偽造了父親的簽名跟銀行借了一筆鉅款。一連串的威脅下她一心打算自殺或等待「奇跡」出現,而這個「奇跡」(她期待她丈夫會站在他這方給予支持並共同面對困難)並未出現,當她丈夫得知後一古腦兒說出令人不堪的氣話。她終於意識到她始終不過是個被人操控的洋娃娃,小時是乖乖聽父親話的娃娃,婚後是一切聽從丈夫安排的娃娃。她決定離家找尋自己,整齣劇就在她離家關門的「碰」聲,留下「?」的結束。

        這是這學期我修「西洋戲劇」的第一部require reading。若問我喜不喜歡這作品,我只能說我真的讀女性主義的作品讀到沒感覺了。我不反對女性主義,但我始終覺得女性主義本身就是一種約束。而直到現在這個社會,男女始終沒有平等過,而有些東西似乎是天生的,就像Nora的丈夫HelmerNobody sacrifices his honor for his love.」及Nora的「A hundred thousand women have done so.」。

        但我對劇中,許多人對Nora說「You don’t understand what the society is.」感觸很深。何謂「了解社會」?那些自稱了解社會的人所了解是真的社會嗎?是該存在的那種社會嗎?社會怎麼做就是真的該如此做嗎?

BTW,那個Krogstad的改邪規正還真的突然的令我傻眼 

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