Nora's character can be controversial. Nora is seen throughout the play as a "doll" or child. ... Nora seemed to be helpless in some ways. ... Isben shows her to be independent and able to live on her own. ... I thought she wasn't able to do anything while I was reading the play, but I didn't think about all the strong and brave things she did until after the play. ...
Nora, arguably the protagonist of the play, is an unrebeling and an extremely submissive wife of a bank manager. ... Nora's qualities until the end of the play are similar to women of that era. ... Whether he loved her or not, we don't know, but we do get an idea of the slavish nature that she possessed, to be able to stay with such a person at the loss of her own freedom - a person who didn't even love her. ... It is too much to expect from someone in that era, specially as this very Nora earlier expressed satisfaction in saying " I was almost like a man". ...
