Nora's Patriarchy

To be or not to be. That is the questions that plagues Nora’s whole existence. On the one hand should she be who she feels she is, despite her being wrong in the world’s eyes, or should she just give into society's expectations of her and be a naïve mother and wife who doesn’t have much purpose but the ones that were given to her by her dominant male figures in her life. Since an early age Nora felt like a doll or something less. Nora remembers the times her father would play with her, “He used to call me his doll-child, and he played with me the way I played with my dolls” she is aware the position she holds in the patriarchy. Torvald and Nora appear to share a idealistic marriage and family life. This perfect image is terrorized when Nora's act of forgery is in jeopardy of being disclosed. The following episodes that take place leads Nora to slowly realize that
Nora’s desertment of her kids can be interpreted as an act of self- sacrifice. Despite Nora’s great love for her kids, causes her to do what no mother would want; to abandon her kids but her fear of corrupting them with her naive views of the world,she chooses to leave them. She truly believes that the caretaker will be a better mother than her and that leaving her children is in their best interest because she needs to discover what's right and wrong in the world, instead of going with what the men in the world expect. The main reason why Nora left Torvald was because the wonderful thing never happened. the wonderful thing was going to be the day that Torvald finds out about Nora’s loan and accepted all the repercussions that came with it. but according to the following quote it’s far from it, Torvald says to her “Miserable creature – what have you done?” Nora replies “Let me go. You shall not suffer for my sake.”Meaning that Torvald didn’t respond how she hoped, and that she didn’t want him to suffer for what she thought was a noble