Nora’s Doll Image in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: A Question of Responsibility
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Torvald Helmer, Nora Helmer, Male Dominated, Tragedy, FreedomAbstract
Henrik Ibsen, the first major to write tragedy about ordinary people on ordinary situations has brought realism and radicalism of the nineteenth century in his ever appealing play A Doll’s House. Maintaining an individual feminine personality is the main focus, the play deals with. The difficulty is personified by Nora, the doll of A doll’s House. She later strives to become a self-motivated human being in a male dominated society which is far more difficult beyond the imagination of a lady like Nora, the doll of A Doll’s House. This paper aims to study the matter that Nora, the sweet pretty doll, not merely is a victim of the male-dominated society rather mostly a doll of her own mistaken identity. Along with the discussion the paper will also argue on justification of her leaving the house slamming the door after failing to discover the difference between fancy and imagination.
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