A Dolls House1

Nora has some certain smartness about her to get what she wants, her ability to manipulate her husband without it looking obvious. Shown on (P.167), Nora is influencing her husband without him knowing it, she is able to get him to think his the reason for why Mrs. Linde came to visit “to please me”? quote HELMER, and that he is an able

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” Quote NORA but then she goes on talking again. “But it costs a terrible lot of money…”, “…it’s very lucky to have money”(P. 147), that sounds exactly like a beautiful setting of a room in dolls house, suggesting that Nora lives in one and therefore is a Doll. She lives in a house, described on the first page of the play (P.

Nora is a woman that likes money and with such reference to the word several times on every second page in Act One, it shows the great deal of importance to which their lives are based around.

In the end Nora gains self knowledge, “As I am now, I’m no good to them” (P. [At last, NORA hides under the table. For one, this book is based around Nora’s secret of the loan she got from the bank and how she forged the signatures.

Nora can be described as ‘the doll in the house’, a child almost, throughout the play this is shown, like when she was asking about her children’s adventures outside.

This change, increase in self knowledge, led to her evolving as a character going from being a husbands wife living at home to being a woman in control of herself. She takes their cotes off and likes to do all the fun things, as a child would do.

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Approximate Word count = 440
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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