A Dolls House
In the victorian Era women were supposed to stay at home, take care of their children, and make sure their husbands every need was met. Society's attitude towards woman was that they should be dominated by a male figure. Decisions were made by the males and females did not argue. In the play," A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, Nora's secession from society is the central theme. The play created a lot of contervirsity because it had a feamle protagonist trying to strive for independence. Nora does not follow the social standards of her time as she attempts "...to try to discover who is right, society or [her] (page 964)." With good intentions, Nora brakes the law and decides to forage her fathers signature so she can borrow money to pay for her husband's medical treatment. She separates herself from the role society has placed her in because she was not suposed to make the decisions and she was definatly not suposed to dis-honour her husband by breaking the law. She leads Helmer to believe that " [she could] never get anywhere without [his] help (page 919)" yet she leaves him. Her decision went against the actions a woman and a wife "should have" by society. Her d
Nora's secessions are deliberate. She knows what the expectations of her are, however she continues to do what she deems correct despite them. Ibsen uses Nora to show some faults of society. Despite Nora doing the right thing to save her husbands life, her society views her as being in the wrong because her actions are not those a women should carry out. While the forgery is illegal, Ibsen helps the reader realize the fact that Nora is forced to forge the letter in order to save her husbands life. Ibsen also mocks society's expectations of a marriage. The marriage vows that Nora took were supposed to evoke the conception of mutual trust, yet she entered this marriage where she did not have the same legal and economic rights that Helmer had. Throughout the play Nora is looked down upon and is used to please him. Society would have deemed it a perfect marriage but Ibsen makes it more than obvious that their marriage lacks love and understanding. When Helmer finds out that Nora forged her fathers signature to save his life he calls her " a hypocrite, a liar, worse than that, a criminal (page 959)!" Ibsen makes it prevelnet that Nora's and Helmer's marrige is less than p
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Approximate Word count = 795
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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