No one can repair what they don't know is broken. Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, was published in 1879 as a public statement to the people; an awakening, where criticism of gender roles and societal aspects such as order and education are presented to the public. Ibsen interweaves the book's plot and the characters' actions with the ideas of Marxism, that "through conflict, classes develop a sense of self" [Green, 2] to clarify his message to the audience. Presenting extremely opposing ideas and questioning fundamental beliefs that are well-entrenched in society has drawn criticism but related to Ibsen on a personal level; reflecting his upbringing and making it a more realistic critique. The doll's house is a message in a search; noticing the invisible flaws, found not within the people but in the central elements of society, which Ibsen reveals by questioning and exploring the way society dictates the actions, interactions and ideas of both sexes in posing order and gender-based ideologies in their education, arguing that ultimately the key to solving the problem is to challenge it, through self-determination, which ultimately leads to the overall solution of equality. Upon initial inspection, it may seem that the women of Dolls House are selfish and irrational due to the conflicts that arise because of their actions; however, one might think that Ibsen highlights the conflict to prove the opposite; that they are wronged and that their actions are a response to the problem, an empowerment, and that there is something coherently wrong that is responsible for their actions. When Nora is blackmailed for trying to save her husband's life, she is awakened and realizes that she has lived a life decorated with middle-of-the-road deception by others. His theories are tangible and relatable to the times, as they come from abuses he observed within his own family, including the repression of ideas, the accumulation of social and self-esteem pressures, and the power of money to dictate status. It presents this perfect family to discover how they too are victims of this inflicted societal abuse. Overall, opposite characters, which show different people always affected in the same way, proving that reliability is not that of people but of society. Ibsen also uses characterization and realism in addition to informing the audience that society is flawed by placing certain expectations based on gender, instead of realizing that they should be treated as equals, as humans, and that gender roles should not interfere with fundamental equality. right to form decisions, views and opinions.