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Italian References ﻿ There are several references to Italy in Ibsen's A Doll House, and not all of them are just Nora talking about her trip to Italy. For example, Nora is to go to the costume party as a "Neapolitan peasant girl", and no, she's not going to be going to the party as a cone of neapolitan ice cream. Neapolitans are from the city of Naples, Italy. From [|Cambridge Journals]: "He saw the function of the theatre critic as promoting social, cultural, and moral awareness in the spectator, and Ibsen's play is a particularly apt vehicle for critiquing the moral superficiality of Italian bourgeois women in its powerful portrayal of the oppressions of a patriarchal society". (Bourgeois meaning belonging to or consisting of the middle class).