... back Nora refuses. She's scared that she will infect her own children with her own corruption. The first thing that we see is when Nora enters with her packages and Ibsen is introducing us to the central issue of Nora and her relation to the exterior world. As the play goes on we can see that she is indeed like a ... been together. Nora explains to Helmer how she had first been treated by her father and by him. She now understands how this was all a game and she was the doll that they played with. She insists that she has to educate herself now, live her life. Torvald accuses her of neg...

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... social conventions of the 19th century and recognize the struggle that women endured, in order make equitable compromises within such a rigid civilization. Composers such as Robert Browning, Jane Austen, Ibsen and Thomas Hardy have all explored the social hypocrisies of the regency period and admit that not all people can make such compromises between their personal convictions and social convention ... succeeded in making an equitable compromise between her ideals and those enforced by society. Ibsen Also addressed the theme of the "Individual in Society" in his play, "A doll's House". ...

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