Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House sheds some light on how married women of the middle class in the nineteenth and early twentieth century were not respected in the household to the extent where even their thoughts and ideas were ignored. Torvald is a man who plays right in to the role of a man in the nineteenth and ... an unwanted possession, rather than his wife. He constantly emotionally and mentally abused Nora in the way he treated her. Due to the way he treated her and her lack of freedom with her own life Nora made the choice to leave him and her three children to make a better life for hers...

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... a flat. Throughout the story, the reader sees Nora, the wife of Torvald Helmer, change from a "girl" completely dependant on everyone around her, into a rebellious, self-aware "woman" who realizes she has been living in the shadow of her father and her husband her entire life. As the story progresses, Nora evolves from a sheltered housewife into a confident, independent woman. The first time Nora ... is introduced, she is humming, excited to show Torvald what she has bought for Christmas. Even though the play has just began, it is evident Nora has little responsibility. Much ... . Torva...

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... inadvertently telling the truth (or most of it, at least). The rapid flip-flopping of truths and lies, of earnestness and duplicity, shows how truly muddled the Victorian values of honesty and responsibility were; its characters don and take off their masks of manners whenever it is convenient. Ibsen ... Nora, also explores a means of dual identity. However, Nora's identity is not quite obvious as in Wilde's novel. In order to better understand Nora's dual identity you have to focus upon the beginning of the novel and the point upon which she is revealed as the forger of the documents. In...

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