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Hi, this is Deonna Migliore. My favorite thing about English class this year is learning about how things were a long time ago and how it affected the authors of the stories we read. 

             The author of A Doll's House was Henrik Ibsen. He was born on March 20, 1828. He was born in Skien, Norway. "In 1862, he was exiled to Italy, where he wrote the tragedy Brand. In 1868, Ibsen moved to Germany, where he wrote one of his most famous works: the play A Doll's House." Henrik was the oldest of five children. His father was a successful merchant while his mother was a painter, played piano, and she also loved to go to the theater. 

               At the age of fifteen he stopped going to school and began to work. His role model was William Shakespeare. Besides writing plays he wrote 300 poems. As he was getting older he began to have serial strokes that left him unable to write. Henrik Ibsen died on May 23, 1906. The main character of the play may symbolize his life story and what he went through in his life to make it. I think this play will show how things were when he was younger and how it was hard because his family had financial problems as he was growing up.

http://www.biography.com/people/henrik-ibsen-37014