The common themes are money, secrets, love, antagonists and social responsibility which I will explore in detail throughout this essay. ... Through our comparisons, we can see that love is a clear factor in terms of the conflict between characters relationships with one another in the plays. In "A Doll's House," we see that Nora falls out of love with Torvald which is made apparent when she says to Torvald, "I don't love you anymore.... They do not argue but the emotive language used by Nora has come from her conflicted feelings of whether or not she really did ever love Torvald...

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The powerful influence of her father leads her to sacrifice true, passionate love to settle for a practical and reasonable marriage with George Tesman. ... Hedda's opposition to such norms make her easily comparable to "Nora, the equally infamous heroine of A Doll's House, and many of Ibsen's other heroines, Hedda says no to marriage, motherhood, selflessness, and separate spheres" (Barstow 397). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate