Nora Helmer, the wife of Torvald Helmer and mother of 3 children, is a very complex and brave woman for her time. She plays the main role in the play and is essential to its plot. She is both a victim of her circumstances and also at fault for actions which she committed.

Nora is a victim. Throughout her entire life, she has never been taken seriously by anyone. She has been treated like a doll by both male characters in her life, her father and her husband, and has acted accordingly. She has believed whatever they have told her without any question because she feared it would anger them. "At home, Daddy used to tell me what he thought, then I thought the same. And if I thou

This play has many themes which add to Nora's character and position such as conflicting values and principles, the gender issue which is the expected male behavior and the expected female behavior, and how the female role is unsatisfying, restricting and false. Are these themes still concerns for women in the present day?

ght differently, I kept quiet about it, because he wouldn't have liked it... and he played with me as I used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house..." ( Henrik Ibsen: Act III, pg. 1465) Therefore, she constructs a life of dishonesty because she encompasses different morals than her husband, and their minds never meet. Torvald Helmer has straight principles and knows clearly where he is, where he is going and how he is going to get

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Approximate Word count = 521
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)