Nora plays the role of protagonist in the play married to Torvald Helm. At the beginning of the play she seems naïve and lacks any knowledge regarding anything outside her household. The naïveté expressed by Nora gets captured in this quote in response to Mrs. Linde saying women may not borrow money "Couldn't I? Why not?" In reality the readers find out she knows a great deal about the outside world by her conversation with Krogstad. Torvald and Nora have an interesting relationship he treats her as a child evident in the nicknames like "little squirrel" and enjoys the great deal of authority given to him over her as well as his new position that he obtained in the bank. Tovald seems to be overly interested in his status in society evident at the beginning of the play when he had just reached a position of power within the bank and was fearful of losing it if Nora spent too much.
2. Mrs. Linde has been friends with Nora for many years. She brings a sense of practicality to Nora's worldview. She also shows the readers a contrast in the poor (her) and privileged life (Nora). This characterization is evident within the discourse over Nora's spending habits. As Tolvald's best friend Dr. Rank play's an important role in the play because unlike the others he doesn’t care what society thinks of him and …show more content…
A developing motif is how Nora defines freedom because her domestic duties that Torvald expects her to perform as well as her financial ones hold her back because she has to pay back the loan that she took out using her father's signature this quote exemplifies this position "Free. To be free, absolutely free. To spend time playing with the children. To have a clean, beautiful house, the way Torvald likes it." One symbol that stood out- the Christmas tree a representation of festivities and holiday decoration, this description of the purposes of the Christmas tree can be extended to Nora because in the eyes of her husband; Nora adds a decorative presence to the
2. Mrs. Linde has been friends with Nora for many years. She brings a sense of practicality to Nora's worldview. She also shows the readers a contrast in the poor (her) and privileged life (Nora). This characterization is evident within the discourse over Nora's spending habits. As Tolvald's best friend Dr. Rank play's an important role in the play because unlike the others he doesn’t care what society thinks of him and …show more content…
A developing motif is how Nora defines freedom because her domestic duties that Torvald expects her to perform as well as her financial ones hold her back because she has to pay back the loan that she took out using her father's signature this quote exemplifies this position "Free. To be free, absolutely free. To spend time playing with the children. To have a clean, beautiful house, the way Torvald likes it." One symbol that stood out- the Christmas tree a representation of festivities and holiday decoration, this description of the purposes of the Christmas tree can be extended to Nora because in the eyes of her husband; Nora adds a decorative presence to the