1. A Doll's House's female characters' need for security
Torvald, as the male presence in the household, exerts his dominance by his control over the finances, making Nora beg, through tears and entreaties', through dancing and dressing up and reciting', for money to run the household. ... Linde that it was I who raised the money' for the holiday that saved Torvald's life. ... Through the actions of the women who married for money, 19th Century writers show the then society to be a superficial one that values wealth above all else, with one such woman, Tatiana, remarking that the riches and glory is tinsel on a life that ...
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