“A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen is a wonderful play, where Nora Helmer is the central and the most significant character of the play. Her role as a woman barely revealed in the act as she is like an immature kid. Her role as a wife is predictable by her husband Torvald Helmer. She is a playful and childish mother. Her position and role in the acts can be compared to a doll which is controlled by her husband. Because of Helmer’s over pampering Nora’s character and self-image get affected for which, she couldn’t be a perfect woman, wife, and mother in “A Doll’s House”. Nora is a character with the least personality of her own. Until she gets her realization, she spends her whole life as an immature kid. Before she got married, she was a doll of her father and after marrying Helmer she became the doll wife of Helmer, who controls her personality. Both in her married and
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As a wife, Nora is extremely fawning. She is a “doll-wife” of Torvald. She always tries to please and satisfy her husband. She is the “squirrel”, “little lark”, “Little spendthrift”, and “Miss Sweet tooth” of Torvald. Usually, the role that a wife plays in her husband’s house is not present in Nora’s character. She lives in a house to which she doesn’t have the key to the latter box, she explains Helmer the reason of her spending money, she gets scared to eat macaroon in front of her husband, she has to practice dance whenever and however he wants. All of these imply her character more like the doll with a key than a wife of Helmer. But she is a loving and responsible wife who saves her husband by managing the money for his treatment. To save his life she dares to forge her father’s signature. But as a wife, her position is weak that she couldn’t tell him about whatever she did for him. She says, “How painfully humiliating for him if he ever found out he was in debt to me. That would just ruin our relationship” (Ibsen
As a wife, Nora is extremely fawning. She is a “doll-wife” of Torvald. She always tries to please and satisfy her husband. She is the “squirrel”, “little lark”, “Little spendthrift”, and “Miss Sweet tooth” of Torvald. Usually, the role that a wife plays in her husband’s house is not present in Nora’s character. She lives in a house to which she doesn’t have the key to the latter box, she explains Helmer the reason of her spending money, she gets scared to eat macaroon in front of her husband, she has to practice dance whenever and however he wants. All of these imply her character more like the doll with a key than a wife of Helmer. But she is a loving and responsible wife who saves her husband by managing the money for his treatment. To save his life she dares to forge her father’s signature. But as a wife, her position is weak that she couldn’t tell him about whatever she did for him. She says, “How painfully humiliating for him if he ever found out he was in debt to me. That would just ruin our relationship” (Ibsen