In a dominate world lead by men, Nora Krogstad did have much of a choice about what she did, what she bought, or even what she ate. Nora, being a women in the 1879’s had no clue just how trapped she was by the men in her life. After eight long years, Nora’s realization that she was living an unhappy and plastic life, she was able to prove that with the little power women had, she was able to overcome her fears. Nora proves to be living a life dominated by multiple male presence by how often she tells lies, how she acts around men versus women, and how she treats her children. It is obvious that Nora enjoys things that Torvald does not approve of. Telling her husband simple and meaningless lies shows what she is willing to do to “prove herself”.
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A broad example of this is Nora spending little to no time with her children, as she does not have to because she has Anne-Marie for that. Nora treats her children as dolls that she can play with, dress up, and not have to spend time with when she does not want to. Nora’s only interaction time with her children in the story is playtime. She is never shown teaching or interacting emotionally with her children. Nora is shown playing hide-and-seek and taking of their coats because “it’s fun to undress them”. Nora, herself a doll, does not know how to interact as an adult to her children because she too is treated as a child by men. Nora, surface deep, appears to love her children and care about their general well being, though this is proven wrong at the end of the story in her own self revelation. Nora has no problem leaving her children after she has her breakthrough as Torvald had no trouble leaving her upon discovering about her debt. Nora only has the mental capability for most of the play to reciprocate Torvald’s actions towards her onto her children. Since she is not treated like the grown women she is caused her to have no real connection to her husband therefore, she did not see her children as her own, rather than dolls, making it easy to leave them behind like objects. “ Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. And the children, in
A broad example of this is Nora spending little to no time with her children, as she does not have to because she has Anne-Marie for that. Nora treats her children as dolls that she can play with, dress up, and not have to spend time with when she does not want to. Nora’s only interaction time with her children in the story is playtime. She is never shown teaching or interacting emotionally with her children. Nora is shown playing hide-and-seek and taking of their coats because “it’s fun to undress them”. Nora, herself a doll, does not know how to interact as an adult to her children because she too is treated as a child by men. Nora, surface deep, appears to love her children and care about their general well being, though this is proven wrong at the end of the story in her own self revelation. Nora has no problem leaving her children after she has her breakthrough as Torvald had no trouble leaving her upon discovering about her debt. Nora only has the mental capability for most of the play to reciprocate Torvald’s actions towards her onto her children. Since she is not treated like the grown women she is caused her to have no real connection to her husband therefore, she did not see her children as her own, rather than dolls, making it easy to leave them behind like objects. “ Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. And the children, in