1. European Society and the Individual in Ibsens A Dolls House.
... at the climax of the play, when Nora is described as a "dolly-wife, just as (she) used to be daddys dolly-baby."" Similarly the concurrent exploration of freedom (for Nora) is eventually defined through each act, to eventuate an epiphonic realisation of her husband, and ... as "skylark-, "squirrelkin-, "spendthrift-, and perhaps most disturbingly, "featherbrain-. "No more Nora wearing out her lovely eyes, and her pretty little fingers."" This exemplar embodies much of the dramatisations critique of patriarchal values, held predominantly by Torvald. Nora is portrayed as delicate, fragile...
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