... to embody contemporary social problems, and therefore, creating a sense of realism in the individual characterisation. A Doll's House may be said to be a story of a quite immature woman who suddenly wakes up and sees her marital situation, sees the "life-lie" on which she has based her life. ... but a world which also carries the hope of something better. A different way of formulating Nora's development might be as follows: She is forced to give her dreams and her favourite rhetorical phrase, "the miracle", because it no longer has any relevance to the world of reality. The phrase "th...

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