Brand: A bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. A pastor returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealistic view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
A doll's house: Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, she decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house.
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