... educate herself "and there is a great, big world out there to explore and learn from; she sees the futility of killing herself, and, symbolically, perhaps literally as well, her life is beginning anew (1098). Note how staging, specifically Nora's costume, reflects this metamorphosis: Nora changes out of her costume, symbolic of shedding her false persona, her old self, and she " ... enters into her regular clothes,"" symbolic of her entrance into this new, truer, life (1096). Indeed, this transformation in the character of Nora elucidates an important theme in the play: the need for indiv...

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