A Doll's House

             A Doll's House is the type of story that makes women feel empowered when they read it and men feel betrayed. This story itself is one of the underlying roots for the women's movement. This piece is about how Nora's character changes in the course of this story. I am also going to explain the type of woman she was at the beginning and end of the play while pointing out the things along the way that caused her to change by the end.
             In the story of A Doll's House Nora's character changes several different ways. The first most noticeable was when Mrs. Linde called her child like, she got defensive and then starting naming off the different things that she has had to deal with that she treated in everyday life as though they had never happened. Nora is also very calm in the beginning of the play and worrisome and nervous towards the end. Her character also changed in the fact that she had started wanting more to do with the outside goings on in the town. All of these things of course began to be a bit if unnerving for Torvald.
             Nora is a hard woman to try to explain but I believe in the beginning of the play she was carefree about all matters that weren't of any relevance to household duties or even matters that involved anything outside of her "cage". To Torvald, she is his songbird, his spendthrift, and even his squirrel. This among the other things that he up to that time said to her, kept her in her child like world but once her friend, Mrs. Linde, started to point out to her how innocent her life had truly been and what would happen if her husband some how found out she started to become depressed, suicidal, even paying less attention to her children, which she adored. By the end of the play when she finds out how her husband felt about people who borrowed money that they were diseased and mothers in particular were more evil if they did such a thing as rather dishonest. All of this howeve...

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