Nora Henrik Ibsen Character Analysis

Individuals learn new things about themselves every day. They go through different pressures and actions that help them better understand themselves. In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer was a character who transitioned throughout the play. Nora recognized and learned new things about herself from dealing with many different life changing problems and situations. It took one incident for Nora to learn that throughout her whole life she was never happy. This is a true example of someone who has changed due to influences society can have on an individual. Nora behaviors lead to self-actualization as she experienced her problems with full absorption. In the beginning of the play I saw Nora Helmer as a woman that cared about materialistic values rather than things that were more important such as her family. Nora was wrapped up in value problems as she continued to have numerous conversations with her husband Torvald about their financial situation. In the beginning of the play as soon as she came home from Christmas shopping they had a conversation about how Nora reminds him of a spendthrift because she is always wasting money. Torvald states “You are an odd little soul. Very …show more content…
“These two clusters of attributes are most commonly seen as mirror images of one another, with masculinity usually characterized by dominance and aggression, and femininity by passivity and submission” (Dover 407). Those who speak more loudly in the conversation and tend to control the conversation are a part of masculinity. In A Doll’s House, Torvald expressed most of the masculine speech patterns when he was having discussion with Nora. Whenever they would talk to each other he would control the conversation by being the dominant one and speaking to Nora as if she wasn’t up to his standards. He controlls the conversation with his sense of domination and aggression as he powers over