A Doll's House created the character of Nora in order to portray how women of his time period are ignorant of their situation in society. The play also attempted to show how women are taught to play ignorant. She does not realize until the end of the play that men have always controlled her. Her ignorance is apparent through everything in her life. She does not even take the fact that she has children seriously. She has a nurse take care of her children and she visits them when she feels like it. Nora plays with her children like they are some whimsical objects that delight her for one moment and

A Doll's House's social and cultural commentaries of nineteenth century Scandinavia are far-reaching and powerful. The play strongly disapproves of the unequal structure and hierarchy between males and females. Its message is grim but powerful and his solutions are non-existent. The play wants people to realize that the truth hurts and must be faced if any progress is to be made.

bore her the next. She has no concept of how to raise children or how to be a mother at all. At the end of the play Nora admits to Helmer, " . . . how am I equipped to bring up the children" (Ibsen 608). Nora is not allowed to control anything in her life. How can she possibly take care of children if she cannot even take care of herself? Her controlling husband has kept her ignorant in order to have power over her.

The end of the play concludes with Nora deciding to start a new life alone. She has come to terms with her ignorance and realized that up to this point, she has been the object of a man's control. Her rebirth, whether a good decision or not, occurs after she decides to leave Helmer and live a life of her own. Up to this point in the play, Nora is not a person because she has always been an object. Society and her own ignorance have always controlled her. After she walks out on her husband, children and everything she has ever known, Nora becomes her own person. For the first time in her life she is on her own and can think for her. Nora tells Helmer at the end of the play that, "I have to try to educate myself. You can't help me with that. I've got to do it alone. And that's why I'm leaving you now" (Ibsen 608). Another man will never again control her. Her rebirth has led to her own independence. She is free of Krogstad and her husband. A Doll's House is trying to get it's point across that for most women living during this time period, running away was virtually impossible and unthinkable. This production wants it to be very clear that this is a problem that has to be dealt with because it affects everyone. The play's style is to identify a major problem within society and bring it to light but not to claim to have any of the answers.

Furthermore, another occurrence in the play that exhibits Nora's learned ignorance is the looming problem of the illegal loan that she took out in her father's name. Her ignorance comes to light when s

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