How Does A Doll's House Change Throughout The Play

Henrik Isben’s A Doll’s house seems to revolve around roleplay. The Characters are more concerned of playing someone else than allowing their true self to appear. Nora’s appearance in the audience changes quite often from being childish, and money-loving to being brave.

Towards the beginning of the play Nora Helmer is seen as a childish wife wanting nothing more than her husband’s money. She is constantly begging Torvald for more and more money. However, Torvald treats her like she is his possession making her act more and more like a child than an adult. On page two of the play Torvald says to Nora “My little lark must not drop her wings like that; What? Is my squirrel in the sulks”. This scene portrays how Nora is treated on a daily basis, for when he calls her names such as squirrel and lark he is treating her like she is a doll and a child. In this scene Nora is asking for more money to buy the children more christmas gifts, yet every time she receives money from him she takes a small portion out to pay off her debt of Torvald’s medical treatment.
We believe this is true until we find out she has been secretly paying her debt off, yet the debt she has is so that she could send her husband to medical treatment. After finding out this new information we come to realize that Nora is not as money-loving as we thought. Her borrowing money to pay for Torvald to go to get medical treatment in Italy shows how selfless she is, and that she is capable of wisely saving money for a good reason. On page eight, Mrs. Linde says to Nora “A wife cannot borrow without her husband’s consent” after Nora tells Mrs. Linde about her forging her father’s signature to get Helmer treatment. In this scene we see Nora as a women, but not a child and one that could fend for