A Doll's House

During the time in which the play took place society frowned upon women expressing themselves. Women were suppose to play a role, in which they supported their husbands, took care of their children and did what they were told. Things like work, politics, and decisions where left to the males. “Women were denied participation in public life; their access to education was limited; their social lives were narrowly circumscribed; and they could not legally transact business, own property, or inherit.” (Magill, 1769) Nora’s first rebellion from society was when she broke the law and decided to borrow money to pay for her husband’s treatment. By doing this, she not only broke the law but she stepped away from the role society had placed on her of being totally dependant on her husband. She proved herself not to be helpless lik

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Society demanded that she a take a place under her husband.

Nora’s rebellions are very deliberate and though out. While the forgery can be considered wrong, Ibsen make sure that the reader knows that Nora is forced to forge. She is something to please him and used for show. ” “His contemptuous attitude toward Nora’s intelligence and sense of responsibility-he calls her his “little lark,” his “little squirrel,” his “little featherbrain,” his “little spendthrift,” and so on-actually reflects the prevailing view that many men had of women: that they are owned property, playthings, dolls to be house in toy mansions and be indulged, but only sparingly. Society would say that this is an example of a perfect marriage. He illustrates this by showing how Nora is forced to play a role instead of being herself, and how this breaks down her marriage. Ibsen used Nora’s rebellion as an example to illustrate that society’s expectations of a woman’s role in society and marriage were incorrect. “She to who love is everything, above the letter of the law, public opinion, even religion, of which she knows as little as most things learned by rote, discovers that his love is a convenience, not a commitment of the self.

A Doll’s House’s central theme of rebellion from society was made to be critical

of societies view on women and marriage. She knows what society expects of her and continues to do what she feels is right despite them.

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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