Nora Didn T Leave Her Husband In Henrik Ibsen's A Doll

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At the end of A Doll’s House, Nora chooses to leave her husband because she believed she was married to a stranger and walked away from her marriage. I believe it was never okay for her to just walk away from her husband. I believe that it's not okay for nora to walk away from her marriage and her 3 kids. “In that moment I realized that for 8 years I had been living here with a complete stranger, and had born him 3 children.” (Ibsen). In my opinion, you should never walk out on your children. Nora had no intention on taking them or saying goodbye to them. She says, “I don’t want to see the children. I know they are in better hands than mine.” (Ibsen 938). Nora didn't give Torvalds a chance to redeem himself as a husband after she decided things

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