ACADEMIC TEXTS REPOSITORY

Summary

The article is a continuation of the study of the problem of gender issues in the drama of the outstanding Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen "A Doll's House", which we began in a work previously published in the magazine "September", which clarifies the originality of the playwright's consideration of issues about the place and role of women in his contemporary society. This time, we pay attention to the problem of the "gender kaleidoscope" in the work, and we understand by this, which we have introduced into the practice of research, the term changes that occur in the gender behavior of the characters under the influence of relev We proceed from the fact that the events and conflicts depicted in the work do not change the characters, but only highlight in each of the female and male characters the traits inherent in them, but which were previously hidden. Unlike the previous investigation, which examined changes in the behavior and worldview of Nora Helmer and Christina Linne, we explore more complex interactions between characters. We are talking about “intra-gender” interactions – male and female pairs of characters, and “inter-gender” interactions of two pairs: Torvald and Nora Helmer and Christina Linne and Krogstad.ant events. We identify the features of the “gender behavior” of female and male characters, on the basis of which we find out the “gender changes” within the “male-female” pairs. It is the noticeable changes in the “gender behavior” of the characters, which is considered in a historical context and occurs in both “intra-gender” and “inter-gender” pairs, through their “cross” comparison, that give grounds to assert that the drama is actually about a kind of “gender kaleidoscope”, in which the seemingly established “pictures” change depending on the angle from which we look at the image. The article attempts to prove not the randomness of the changes in the characters’ gender behavior, but its determination by their characters and the writer’s moral and aesthetic position.