All the way through Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House human rights is a major theme, but Ibsen focuses more specifically on women's rights. Throughout the play Ibsen paints a bleak picture of the sacrificial role held by women of all economic classes (Emma Goldman). Ibsen covers all the economic classes starting with Nora, who is part of the upper class, a woman who has everything imaginable in a doll like existence; then to Mrs. Linde, who is part of the middle class, a woman that has married a man who she does not love and soon divorces; finally to Anne-Marie, who is part of the lower class, the Helmer's nursemaid who has never had a very nice life from what Ibsen tells. No matter what class they are from they are expected to sacrifice everything and anything.
             Though Nora is economically sound compared to the other female characters, nevertheless she leads a difficult life. For society back then dictated that men had all the power over women, men were supposed to be the dominant partner in a relationship. This is evident through Torvald's patronizing behavior towards Nora, by calling her pet names like "little sky-lark", "little squirrel" and treating her like a five year old child who has an allowance. For this reason, Nora has to hide the loan from Torvald because she knows he could never accept the fact that his wife saved his life. Consequently, she did take a loan out and forged her father's signature, which is a crime. Also, women were not allowed to take out loans without their husband's approval, therefore Nora committed two illegal actions to save her husband from his death bed. Whereas most people would have thanked their spouse if they found out that their loved one had saved them from dying, Torvald was very upset at Nora and could not believe what she did. "Now you have ruined my entire happiness, jeopardized my whole future. I'm done for, a miserable failure, and i...