leaves him to find out what she can turn out to be in life. By doing this Nora challenges what the roles of women actually were and what marriage meant in the 19th century.

Although everyone thinks that Nora is just a “silly girl” that is just pampered and sits home and doesn’t know much about anything in the real world. We learn that this is not at all true when we find out that when Torvald was seriously ill and needed to go to Italy in order to be saved, Nora came up with $1200 in order to save Torvald. Nora borrowed the money from the bank by actually forging her father’s signature on his will because she couldn’t tell her very ill father that the money was to save her husband who was also ill. So she forged the signature and got $1200; and in turn she was to pay every dime of it back within a given period of time. However, Nora was definitely not allowed to be able to carry a job or work so she secretly saved up the money by copying papers when Torvald wasn’t around and by spending only about half of the money he ever gave her. Still, because of Torvald's ways, Nora knew she wouldn’t be able to tell Torvald the truth so she said that the money came from her father. Nora was forced to lie to him because he would not have of accepted anything from her because it would have been insulting to him. When an old school friend of Nora’s named Kristine Linde asks Nora if she will ever tell him the truth Nora replied “Some day perhaps…many years in time, when I’m no longer as pretty as I am now. You musn’t laugh! What I mean of course is when Torvald isn’t quite so much in love with me as he is now, when he’s lost interest in watching me dance, or get dressed up, or recite”(Ibsen 1775). This shows that Nora believes that Torvald loves her more for her looks than for who she is as a person. This was not an uncommon thing in 19th century marriage because husbands didn’t expect much of there wives, all they had to do was make sure that there husbands were pleasured and pampered as soon as they arrive home from work.

When Nora sees Torvald’s reaction to what she has done Nora begins to realize that Torvald isn’t the man that she once thought he was. When Torvald finds out he is in complete shock and wouldn’t even think about taking the blame, instead he says “Miserable women…this woman who was my pride and joy…a hypocrite, a liar….a criminal…you have you ruined my entire happiness”(Ibsen 1814). Torvald shows no remorse or love towards Nora despite the fact that she did everything just for him. He doesn’t understand this or care about it, because all he cares about in life is his reputation. All Torvald was concerned about was making sure he was able to con Krogstad into not letting anyone know about what had happened. The main reason he needed Nora is so that

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