Henrik Ibsen’s play rocked the stages of Europe when the play was performed in …show more content…
Linde have entered new phases in their lives. Nora has chosen to desert her children and her husband because she wants independence from her roles as mother and wife. In contrast, Mrs. Linde has chosen to abandon her independence to marry Krogstad and take care of his family. She likes having people depend on her, and independence does not seem to fulfill her. Despite their apparent opposition, both Nora’s and Mrs. Linde’s decisions allow them to fulfill their respective personal desires. They have both chosen their own fates, freely and without male influence. Ibsen seems to feel that the nature of their choices is not as important as the fact that both women make the choices themselves and hence in the end Ibsen successfully portrays that women are not week and feeble by giving Nora and Mrs. Linde what they want by the closing stages of the