Nora As A Patriarchy

The narrative of the play goes on to portray how Nora is seen as a subordinate by her husband who goes on to call her by the names of animals. This is indicative of the very nature of the ideology of patriarchy to dehumanize the women folks of the society so as to see them as something that is inferior to the males of the world. In the beginning, Nora does not take offense to any such attributes- something that shows that her mind has been conditioned by the societal influence so as to accept the notion of being inferior to men and providing the opposite gender the license to belittle her identity by calling her by the names of animals in the course of the play. Apart from this, one comes to realize that even her children see her as a companion for play rather than being a guardian. Even in the eyes of the children she has lesser importance in …show more content…
Thus, when she decides to leave the family behind and live a life of her own, she goes on to break free of the shackles of the patriarchal society and the roles of correct femininity and passivity that have been ascribed to her all her life. The audience can recall that Nora has shown signs of her deviant nature as she defied her husband in small but meaningful ways in the first act of the play. She would eat macaroons and then lies about it, and even swear just for the sake of deriving pleasure from showing rebellion against the societal standards. With the flow of the narrative of the play, the awareness of this female character regarding the ultimate truth of her life increases. Thus, her need for being a rebel escalates, and it only culminates as she walks out leaving her children and husband behind so as to establish her own independent identity in the face of the oppressive patriarchal