Nora and Her Environment
In A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen presents Nora as a product of her environment. When she lived with her father she allowed him to shape her life, her opinions and her thoughts. Then, when she married Torvald, nothing changed. She simply passed from her father's hands into her husband's hands. She describes it as: [W]hen I lived at home with Papa, he told me all his opinions, so I had the same ones too; or if they were different I hid them, since he wouldn't have care for that. He used to call me his doll-child, and he played with me the way I played with my dolls. Then I came into your house - I mean, then I went from Papa's hand into yours. You arranged everything to your own taste, and so on I got the same taste as you - or I pretend to; I can't remember.... It's a great sin what you and Papa did to me. You're to blame that nothing's become of me (1623). Nora realizes that her life has not amounted to anything consequently blaming her father and her husband as the main reason of her failure. While Nor
Torvald never speaks to Nora, or about her, as if she is an intelligent person, but as if she is an irresponsible spoiled child. For that reason she acts like an irresponsible spoiled child. She knows nothing of burdens, business or responsibilities. When she commits forgery to borrow the money, she does not realize that it is a crime (1591). When Mrs. Linden needed a rest, Nora told her to go away on a long vacation, she does not think about the expenses (1581). Her environment, the way she was treated by her father and her husband, took her individuality. Nora is completely justified by saying "you're to blame that nothing become of me" (1623). a's father and her husband have her best interest in mind, they harm her by over protecting her and by not allowing her to form any opinions on her own. Even when she does not agree with her father, she never let him know. She is afraid to offend him. Then when she married Torvald, she was so conditioned to taking her fathers ideas that she accepted those of her husband, not knowing if she ap
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