A Dolls House
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Submitted by Jessluv on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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A Dolls House
Nora Helmer judgments of her father prohibit her from succeeding in her future life in so many ways that is included in her life and marriage toward males. A Doll's House is considered to be perfect. Nora symbolizes that throughout the play. As she continues her premises, she soon discovers that she has to be perfect to try to please her superficial husband Torvalt.
To begin with, Nora's first judgement involved her relationship with her father. Who had long earlier deceased. She blamed him for contributing to her position in life. Even though she loved and admired him, she felt as if he always controlled her life. She unwillingly expected the fact by doing what she was told. This shows that Nora is respectable but she lacks her own individuality and does not realize who she is. This leads to further premonitions of other males that are to come later in her life. This soon takes over her marriage and life throughout the play.
Her husband Torvald plays and extremely major role in Nora's decision of judgments toward him. To begin with, he is petty, materialistic, and shallow. Torvald delights in his position of authority as a husband. He treats Nora as if she were a child. In a manner that is kind but yet in still lowers her as a woman. He does not view Nora as being on same level as him, instead he sees her as nothing more but a plaything or doll to be teased and admired. Torvald cares what people think too much, he allows his emotions to be influenced tremendously by the prospect of society's respect and the fear of their scorn. Nora soon realizes that they have different values.
Torvald best friend Dr. Rank is someone Nora admires. He is the opposite of her husband. Dr. Rank stands out as the one character in the play who doesn't care what others think of him. He is also distinguishing for his indifference acceptance of his fate. Dr. Rank literally admits to his life threatening disease. Unlike Nora and Torvald, admitting...
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