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pegkerr ([personal profile] pegkerr) wrote2005-08-16 10:39 pm
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Ibsen's A Doll's House

I was going to write a long and insightful post about Ibsen's A Doll's House, prompted by reading this article. But I'm too tired. But I will say this: in my AP English class in high school, my English teacher Mr. Hunt gave us an assignment to write a fourth act of A Doll's House: what happens to Nora next?

When Emerald House Rising was published, I contacted all my high school English teachers and sent them copies with a thank you letter. (Really, all four of them were kick-ass inspirational, and I owe them a lot, least of all a thank you letter.) And Mr. Hunt astounded me by faxing me a copy of my version of the fourth act of A Doll's House. He had liked it so much that he had kept it as a sample for students to see when he was handing out this assignment, and he had been passing it out to them for twenty years. He said he felt smug that he knew I was special as a writer even then.

So . . . if you had to write the fourth act of A Doll's House, what do you think happens to Nora next?

Just think: Ibsen fanfiction. *boggles*

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