Doll House
The Doll House: Nora's Coming out Party Many of our choices and the things one does in a lifetime can be directly based on what society perceives to be proper. The choices one makes based on society's views, may sometimes have no logic to support them. These choices are sometimes chosen because society would look down upon the person making the "wrong" decision. The values and morals upheld by a society may directly affect how one acts. This is held true for the character Nora in Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll House". Nora is the 19th century middle class wife of Torvald Helmer. She is a woman who is devoted to her husband and family. Nora minds her husband Torvald as a child would a father, and Torvald in return treats her as a child, or as his "doll". At the end of the play, Nora makes an epiphany realizing the way she acts and how Torvald really feels towards her. The causes for Nora's behavior can be attributed to her upbringing, society's views on what a woman's role should be, and also Torvald, who also helps Nora in her epiphany. The primary cause that affected Nora's behavior as an adult, was Nora's upbringing. Nora's father treated her as his "doll-child" (1186, "A Doll House"; all page references refe
You've only though it was fun to be in love with" (1186). Her father shaped Nora's ideas and gave her his knowledge of how the world worksThe treatment of Nora's father may have been a result from how society viewed women in the 19th century, which is the second cause for Nora's behavior. "" (1196, "A Marxist Approach to A Doll House"). There were very few jobs and society viewed these women as delinquent and crazy. It was unheard of for a woman not to mind her husband or father. r to the class text The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature 5th ed. in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man" (1191, "Notes for A Doll House"). Nora has in essence become her father by not having a mind of her own. This epiphany Nora has is the best thing that could have happened to her. Nora gets into a relationship where she is treated the same way her father treated her, as a "doll".
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