Evidence the play isn't about feminism but the need of every person to find out who he or she is and strive to become that person? Michael Meyer...

Near the end of the play, Nora herself says in response to Torvald's assertion that she is "first and foremost...a wife and mother": "I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as much as you are--or at least I'm going to try to be." In her statement she asserts she is a person first, and so far she has not been treated as one; rather, she has been regarded as a "doll" by both her father and her husband. Now she believes she must strike out on her own to see who she is and what she can do.

In a speech Ibsen gave at a banquet of the Norwegian League for Women's Rights in 1898, he said the following:

"I am not even clear as to just what this women's rights movement really is. To me it has seemed a problem in mankind in general. ... My task has been the description of humanity [italics Ibsen's]." He steadfastly denied that he was writing any kind of feminist propaganda.