Ibsens' A Dolls House
Key Question: Did Nora make the right decision? Why or why not? Nora and Helmer's relationship in Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, is a very fictitious relationship. The way Nora is treated, called names, and bossed around, degrades the female society. Feminism lurks throughout the whole play. The idea that women are nothing but a house pet is interpreted through Nora by Helmer. Helmer as egotistical as he is, uses and plays Nora like a toy for his own benefits, to look good in front of his co-workers and friends. A Doll, an empty headed play thing, was what Nora was living as under Helmers roof. The light shines on Nora one day and knocks some sense into her about the dirty self-degrading life she was living, and so she leaves Helmer and her children. Yes, Nora did make the right decision because she needed to take control of her own life and do as she pleases. She needed to teach herself how to survive on her own, make money for her
In this play there is the idea that a woman's place in the relationship is in the house. They lived their lives as two strangers. "Yes, Torvald, I can't get along a bit without your help. " (Ibsen 26) Torvald took advantage of her helplessness for his own little schemes. Nora is not a little girl, she deserves the respect as an adult and not be called names and referred to as a little squirrel or spendthrift. Nora, you can't think how I am looking forward to this evening. Torvald supports that idea as many men in this world do. Everything for him is ' I ' , Not Nora or anyone or anything else comes before his own self. She escapes the moral feminist disrespect she has been receiving form Torvald the whole time they have lived together. She had been living with a man who knew nothing about her, except as being his little toy, and whom she knew nothing about him. When Nora starts to question herself if she is really happy living the way she is and finds out she isn't, she decides to abandon her home to morally find herself.
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