How Does Nora Change Throughout The Play

Nora’s character and the exploration of gender roles in the nineteenth century Norway
Nora is the main protagonist of the play and the play mainly focuses on her feelings and actions. She is the only one whose character develops throughout the play. In the initial stages of the play she displays some childish qualities when she interacts with her husband as the audience can see when Torvald calls her by different names such as “my little squirrel”, “my little lark”, “my little spendthrift”, “extravagant little person”, “little featherhead”, etc. she seems to enjoy it. She is always there to please him. She is a good mother, caring and loving wife as well as a good friend of Mrs. Linde and Dr. Rank. The audience can see how nice and welcoming Nora was to Mrs. Linde when she came to meet Nora. She makes her comfortable and helps her to take off her stuff. This shows Nora is caring friend. Nora apologises to Mrs. Linde for not been able to write to her when her husband
To work out a relationship it’s really important to respect each other, respect each other dreams and consider your significant other equal as you which in the play was opposite in this play, Torvald always considered Nora inferior to him which in the end due to his egoistic nature, Nora decided to leave him. Nora made a bold move which wasn’t excepted in the society which left the audience in shock, because audience thought how can she survive without a man and also divorce was not accepted at that time in the society. It’s not necessary that only women need men but men also need women for household chores and to take care of their family. Women can also be as strong as men and can do work outside the house in order to provide their family as Mrs. Linde did. She worked outside and became the bread winner of her family like Torvald. Nevertheless, there are still some societies which treat women as a