In Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, Nora is a living doll throughout much of the drama. She is treated like an object by her husband, and her value comes from how pretty she is and how entertaining she can be. She feels like nothing more than a doll for her husband to command as he will. During the play, she is afraid her husband will find out her terrible secret that she borrowed money...
In Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, Nora is a living doll throughout much of the drama. She is treated like an object by her husband, and her value comes from how pretty she is and how entertaining she can be. She feels like nothing more than a doll for her husband to command as he will. During the play, she is afraid her husband will find out her terrible secret that she borrowed money and forged her father's signature. She lives in fear that Krogstad will tell her husband.
When that moment finally does happen, her husband reacts in a harsh manner and she recognizes the emptiness of her marriage. Nora makes the decision that she will leave her husband--and her children--and in this decision, she finds freedom. She drops the pretense she had been carrying on--acting as if she wasn't clever and that she was carefree, only concerned for her husband's happiness--and transforms into a free human being. She chooses to follow her own path and make her own decisions for the first time in her life.
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