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Nora's Inequality
Equality is important in every marriage because women are belittled by men because men assume women were inferior to them. I believe Nora leaves to be able to find herself as a mature women rather than being treated as a “doll” in a dollhouse. No person wants to be belittled by a man especially if that man is their husband. Nora feels that she is being depreciated by her husband because Torvald is always demining her calling her nicknames that alway include the word little in them such as “ My little singing bird.” Torvald sees himself the inferior man of the household while Nora is his little child to be taken care of by him. But Nora feels as if she is a doll in the relationship rather than his wife because Torvald tries to control and belittle her rather than being her equal partner. Nora has no say in what she does because she always has to ask Torvald for permission on something rather than doing it on her own. Torvald treats Nora as if she is his daughter and not his wife because as a man he …show more content…
Nora’s marriage doesn't last long because at first Nora and Torvald’s relationship was very happy and lovable but as the years went on the love and happiness started to disappear. Their relationship is broken down and that's when Nora decides to leave to show that she can do stuff without the help of a man.Nora learned at an early age to depend on male before depending on herself. She feels that she has to leave to prove that she doesn't mean need a man to do everything for her and that she can do it on her own. In society Nora has to have her husband's permission to do whatever she likes because in the eyes of society she is a woman and a woman is inferior to a man. Nora doesn't want to be inferior to man she wants to be equal to man but she knows that will never happen unless she leaves Women are more capable of doing things on their own rather than what society presumes they can

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