Is there anything more humiliating to a woman than to live with a stranger, and have children with him? The lie of the marriage institution orders that she shall continue to do so, and the social conception of duty insists that for the sake of that lie she needs be nothing else than a plaything, a doll, an unknown. "... Our home has been nothing but a play-room. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll--child" (Ibsen). Nora realizes how much she has been wronged, that she is only a doll for Helmer. She also says to him, "You have never loved me. You only thought it amusing to be in love with me" (Ibsen). She decided that she has to leave a house. She wants to become independent. When Helmer reminds her about her "holiest duties" as mother and wife, she tells him that, "I have another duty equally sacred" (Ibsen). In the end Nora only wants to be independent.

When Nora closes the door of the doll's house behind her, she opens a different door of new life for women. She brought new ideas of women's freedom in the family, and in society. She tried to tell us that nothing but women's freedom

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