Henrik Ibsen's play "A Dolls House" is a play about a woman who is living a stereotypical life and she doesn't realize it. Nora has been forced into believing that she is happy acting as a child for Torvald until she realizes the men around her stunted her growth as a person. Nora's husband was all about keeping up appearances and Nora fit right into his idea of what a wife should be. Nora soon realized that she wasn't an individual living with Torvald and she wanted more. She wanted to find out who she was.
Women were supposed to be a good wife and mother by keeping the house clean, keeping the children happy and of course pleasing the husband as well. If a woman leaves her husband and children for any reason she will be an outcast because as a woman it is her duty to make her husband and children happy or at least to keep pretending that they are. It was a masculine world and women didn't have much say in anything. Whatever her husband believed in she had no choice but to......
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