Research Paper On A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen

“I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.”.Nora the protagonist of “ A Doll’s House” struggles to find her independence during a time in which women were inferior to men. The victorian age imposed expectations and responsibilities for women. Women were supposed to be subjected to their husband and care for their kids. Literature was a way to send a message that something isn’t okay, society’s ranking of women then led to Henrik Ibsen to create “ A Doll’s House”. Henrik Ibsen uses the play “ A Doll's House” to show and critique society’s expectations of women, society, and issues with the upper class during the victorian age.

Don’t live by the world’s expectations. The play states in act two “Surely you can understand that being with Torvald is a little like being with papa." . In the quote you have Nora who is comparing living with Torvald to being with her father. We know in the play that Torvald has obsolete control over Nora and everything she does. Nora compares life with Torvald to that of her father because Nora’s father was just like how Torvald is in the play both men don’t trust females with money, which is why Nora had to forge her father's signature By Torvald
Ibsen also mocks the ways of the upper class, by showing the unbalanced marriages in which only one half of the relationship is truly committed while the other half is only there half way. Finally even though it was probably only the upper class that were being criticized, mainly because the whole play connected to one thing and that is that the upper class might seem like they are living in a doll's house but in reality the only thing found in the household is