Essay On Nora's Relationship With Her Husband Torvald

Nora is in an interesting relationship with her husband Torvald. When readers first get an image of how their relationship is, it would not seem that bad. Once further into the play you see that it is just because Nora is submissive, and lets it be that way. The only reason she is loving her husband is because that is what she thinks she is supposed to do. Her husband will not let her expand as a person, and she just lets it happen. Women are constantly treated as a lower class among men. Nora is just as capable as her husband Torvald, with all of the talents that could lead her into being an important or meaningful person to society just like her Husband. Throughout the play Torvald says over and over again that his wife cannot possible understand
The woman coming out on top. Torvald has tormented his wife Nora and made her feel like a tiny little unimportant thing, just living in his world. She has dealt with him being selfish in their marriage, and treating her so badly that in the end it even lead her to thoughts of suicide. After the thoughts of suicide, she soon realized that she can erupt from this shell that Torvald has essentially built around her. Nora knows that she has to grow up so she can be the mother that her kids will need in the future. So she tells her husband she is leaving. At first her husband does not let this happen, but again in her feeling of new might, she makes her own decision and leaves him.
A woman sheltered by an awful man, turning into a woman breaking free from a helpless man. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House shows evidence that it is written with a feminist agenda. Nora is treated like border line trash the whole play in comparison to her husband. She is called weak, unintelligent, and needy. She is called terrible names the whole time, demeaning her role as a woman. Even the title of the play supports it being themed on feminism. A Doll’s House may have reason to be seen as a play about humanism, but the main theme is indeed