Nora and Torvald are nurtured in a society where male is the dominant figure. Torvald believes that the male should be protective of the female and head the family. At first, Nora has no complains and she just takes it as it is. She enjoys her “beautiful, happy home” (54). Therefore, Torvald claims himself to “have [has] strength and courage enough as a man to take on the whole weigh [problems] myself [himself]” (79). This believe of his which seems to the norm of the culture defines Nora as the weak. She is constantly nicknamed by Torvald as “song bird” or “poor thing” or “my little darling” throughout the text. Nora has no problem with Torvald’s masculine pride because she fantasizes that Torvald loves her and she understands hi

m. She said to Rank, “You know how deeply, how inexpressibly dearly Torvald loves me; he’d never hesitate a second to give up his life for me.”(83) However, she is disappointed to Torvald outrageous response to past. That’s why Nora becomes another person and takes control of the situation for once and then come to a decision to exit.

“Oh, what an awful awakening! In all these eight years—she who was my pride and joy—a hypocrite, a liar—worse, worse—a criminal! How infinitely disgusting it all is! The shame…(105) now you’ve wrecked all my happiness—ruined my whole future. Oh, it’s awful to think of…featherbrained woman…what good would that ever do me if you were gone from this world, as you say? Not the slightest…” (106)

If only Torvald has given Krostad a second chance by listening to Nora’s plead, then maybe this Nora’s struggle of becoming a self may not be successful. Nora’s secret would never be uncovered to Torvald. The reason behind why Torvald insists on firing Krostad is because of an incident with Nora’s father in the past. Torvald complains about violating his moral principals to remain quiet on an issue, with which Nora’s father was at fault. Torvald sees this as a black dot that has contaminated his life and he refuses to be involved in nay immoral conduct again such as keeping Krostad at the bank. He believes Krostad is untrustworthy to work with due to his previous misconducts.

Nora realizes she has been a doll all her life and lives in a dollhouse that her father and her husband built for her. Therefore, she exits. In short, Nora’s secret from the past is the cause of her departure.

“When I lived at home with Papa, he told me all his opinions, so I had the same ones too; or if they were different I hid them, since he wouldn’t have cared for that. He used to call me his doll-child, and he played with me the way I played with my dolls. Then I cam into your house… You arranged everything to your won taste, and so I got the same taste as you—or I pretended to;” (109)

Nora’s secret from her past being revealed is another way of how the past has intensified the current conflict between Nora herself and between Nora and Torvald. N

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