During the Victorian time period‚ there was very unequal treatment between women and men with the expectation being that women should simply stay in the house and let the men support them. For example‚ in A Doll’s House‚ Torvald calls Nora his “sweet little spendthrift” because she always ask for money to spend on housekeeping. On the other hand‚ in Ghosts‚ when Mrs. Alving ran away once from her husband‚ to Pastor Manders‚ he made her return and endure with her husband’s dissipation. Both of Ibsen’s
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Nora knows it is against what most people believe‚ yet she didn’t want to be undermined by someone who she felt as though they could understand and compliment her; of course this somewhat backfired when Mrs. Linde thought that she should have told Torvald. However Nora wants to appear vulnerable and naive
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The author points out that men are seen as the breadwinners into society’s expectations‚ they manipulated women. He argues that at first Torvald wanted to demonstrate his “ideological power”(Yuehua 81). In part one Stereotyping of gender roles‚ he recalls that ideology plays a crucial point in dealing with gender role. Men have a financial status higher over women‚ while women are not economically
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the play‚ Ibsen creates a scene‚ in which Torvald claims that he’ll be laughed at if he ever listened to a woman‚ let alone his wife. (2. 173) Similarly‚ in the story about Antigone‚ her uncle‚ Creon‚ refuses to show her any mercy because
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struggles with the responsibility for herself and for others through dishonesty. As a wife‚ Nora felt it was her duty to help save the man (Torvald) she loved‚ even though she did it in a dishonest manor. At the end of Act three‚ Nora discovers Torvald always established her identity and comes to the realization that her life has been a lie. Nora says to Torvald in Act three page seven hundred forty-eight‚ “but our home’s been nothing but a play pen. I’ve been your doll-wife here‚ as at home I was
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actions and characters of the play. In the play‚ a woman‚ call Nora‚ took a loan to save her husband’s life‚ Torvald. The problem of the play is that she did not tell him. Due to a letter Torvald receive from Mr. Krogstad‚ he gets to know about the debt. The husband reclaims Nora for her actions‚ calls her a stupid woman and then tells her she is not an adequate mother. As the result of Torvald acts and words‚ Nora decides to leave the house. Ibsen’s play has evoked a lot of controversy and new views
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assist the topic of appearance versus reality. "Torvald can’t stand to see dressmaking" (185-187). Torvald is the cliché male for this time period. He maintains a strategic distance from components of the family unit that symbolize the female part‚ such as sewing. He additionally lean towards the hallucination that Nora is flawless and there for his entertainment‚ subsequently he doesn’t prefer to see what sewing speaks to him: reasonable family life. Torvald: "You know it’d be vastly improved on the off
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she wanted something better. She felt belittled by Torvald by the way he talks to her. In that time‚ men were the dominant sex; society of that time showed that. Nora disagreed‚ though. She believed that‚ if anything‚ she should at least be treated as an equal by her own husband. This is where the criteria for a problem play comes into play‚ the exposition. Nora becomes impatient‚ she wants equality. Then the event is introduced to the story. Torvald is promoted‚ and he continues to belittle Nora. At
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Nora busies herself with small matters‚ hiding macaroons and organizing things. Although her husband‚ Torvald‚ labels Nora as “my little squirrel” and a variety of other animals in a patronizing manner‚ Nora seems to act in the same as a woodland creature‚ continuously “scampering about”. Nora behaves like a small child‚ hiding macaroons from her husband and spending excessive amounts of money; Torvald is not entirely incorrect in his statement of‚ “has my little spendthrift been wasting money again”
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is proving Torvald that she is a human not a doll‚ in her statement "…You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me" (p. 66)‚ represents how a doll is being love by the owner who chose to dance and dress a doll but no freedom to act the way she wants to act. A wife’s role in a marriage is be submissive to her husband but in a fair decision. I truly believe that both knew how they are treating each other. Nora is aware how she is being treated by Torvald and she allowed
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