Character Analysis Of A Doll House By Henrik Ibsen

In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll House, Nora Helmer is the first main character introduced. She plays the role of a stereotypical housewife. She has many negative and positive traits. These traits help to build and develop her into either a flat or round character. Nora is a round character because she has a very complex personality and her character becomes more complex as the story progresses. At the beginning of the story Nora seems to be completely happy and content with her life. She is always looking to please her husband in any way that she can, and doesn’t seem to mind when he teases her. Nora is very pleased with the fact that her husband has landed a new high paying job. She also is happy with her children and the friends that surround her. It is noticed that her character shift dramatically from the beginning to the ending of the play. Her interactions with the other characters in the play help to …show more content…
As a young girl she had lived her life for her father, and as a young woman she had lived her life for her husband. She tells Torvald that he has never understood her and she has never understood him either (1212). She realizes that she has only become what society had made her become. Society had molded her to be the housewife that always did what the man of the house told her to do. Society also shaped her to be the flat character that was present at the beginning of the play. During her argument with Torvald she tells him that her father use to call her his doll child because he played with her the way that she played with her dolls (1213). Nora doesn’t want to be a doll wife to Torvald any longer and she doesn’t want her children to grow up being her dolls so that’s why she leaves her family behind. Nora didn’t want to be a part of the social norm any longer and that is why she began a journey as an independent woman just as Linde