The following essay will critically analyse a passage from the play "A Dolls House" by Henrik Ibsen. Between the pages 222 and 225 there seems
to be shift in the plot, as Nora takes a different attitude towards her and Helmer's relationship. All of a sudden instead of trying to preserve it, she
wishes to leave the house. It could be argued that her radical change in mind is not irrational or unprovoked. Before she starts getting changed to
leave, Helmer had just finished forgiving her, for he had received and read Krogstad's second letter which included the forged document, but prior
to this he had basically told her that he could no longer love her: Helmer: "...Oh, to think that I should have to say this to someone I've loved so
much-someone I still .... Well, that's all over now-it must be;" Then spontaneously he starts forgiving her as he had received the second letter,
everything else he had told her before was forgotten. It is very cold of him to go from one thing to another, hence it cannot possibly be believed
that his feelings are true for Nora. People do not love a person one moment, and then deny them it, or vise versa. Nora's reason for leaving, as she
explains, is that she feels he doesn't love her: Nora: "You've never loved me, you've only found it pleasant to be in love with me." As well as her
taking no part in family decisions or even her own, as she and Helmer have never sat down to have a serious discussion, in the past eight years,
until now. She is his doll , and has no say in her own future, let alone her owner's (Helmer). Another aspect, included in the book's theme, is
sexism, an attitude which stereotypes people according to gender. In forgiving Nora, Helmer makes various comments characterised as sexist.
Firstly, he tells Nora: Helmer: "...It was just you hadn't the experience to realise what
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