In A Doll’s House, the main character Nora first seems meek and dependent, but then the book reveals that Nora is impulsive, selfish, and materialistic. When the reader discovers that Nora has borrowed money from someone without her husband’s knowledge it shows independence, which was frowned upon in the era in which the book is based. It shows independence first, because Nora has borrowed money

In The Tin Flute Rose-Anna is the good aspect of an independent woman. She struggles through her husband’s unemployment, her son going off to war, her daughter’s pregnancy, and her son’s death and still manages to keep her family together. She gets through the tough times by trying to stay positive. You can see her goodness in this quote, “Florentine realized that between Daniel’s wish and the shiny flute there would always be her mother’s good intention-an intention repressed” (120). Rose-Anna’s only desire is to help her family. Some days she does not even eat so that her children can have more food. Completely selfless acts like this are what make her the good aspect of an independent woman.

Nora and Florentine are the same kind of characters because they both only think of themselves. Florentine marries Emmanuel to escape her own problems, and Nora leaves her husband without a thought about the children that she is leaving behind. They are independent women, but for all the wrong reasons.

without her husband’s knowledge, and secondly because she has directly gone against his wishes, because he forbids borrowing money. The second thing that Nora does that shows her independence is that in the end she leaves her husband because she finally realizes that he does not really love her. Even though her leaving shows a great deal of strength, it is very selfish. Initially because she borrowed money for her own benefit, and then because she leaves without a

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