Abstract
This essay uses Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House to illustrate how forgiveness may be redefined. To forgive is often conflated with forgetting, appeasement, atonement; an individual is perceived as forgiving someone else, thereby canceling out some prior wrong or offense. This essay argues that forgiveness can also be seen as a mode of relation to the self (not the other); it can be a way of neutralizing conflict in order to create a space for self-transformation. The model for such a view is Nora Helmer at the end of Ibsen's play.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 54-73 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | South Central Review |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 2010 |