Sukkar 1 Hasan Sukkar Professor Hermansen THEA 1013-X51 October 8, 2015 A Doll's House A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen is a play about a woman who rejects the traditional Victorian role of women and other elements of her relationship with her husband and asserts her independence. The wife of a banker, Nora Helmer is a woman who is in a traditional Victorian marriage, in which the wife is expected to defer to her husband's wishes and desires, but, as the result of developments in the play, she asserts her independence and leaves her husband and marriage behind.Nora also found herself caught in a situation of her own making which threatened her personally and her marriage, so in reaction, she admits all to her husband and, due to his reaction, leaves the situation behind.Finally, Nora, in the course of the play and resulting from its developments, realizes that the love she has for her husband was one-sided, and he didn't really love her, and as a result, she rejects her husband asserting her independence, leaving the role and the circumstances contributing to it, behind. In her traditional Victorian marriage, as the play progresses, Nora grows less comfortable in being subservient to her husband, so that eventually, she asserts her independence, leaving her husband and marriage behind.At the beginning of the play, it is Christmastime, and in the Helmer household, the wife, Nora, is just home from shopping, and she seems to be a happily married woman thinking about children and husband.Her husband gives her a lecture about spending too much money and not borrowing it, to which she responds like dutiful wife of her time, “As you please, Torvald” (Ibsen5). In other things in the household and in regard to her husband, Nora presents the picture of the
Sukkar 2 traditional Victorian wife:
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