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I must think over things for myself and get to understand
them" Ibsen, (A Doll's House, Act III). Ibsen's Nora is a deep-feeling
woman who, in seeing how far she truly is from knowing her true self,
realizes she must take herself away from her family in order to grow into
personhood on her own. In this way, then, Nora evolves personally and
changes into a stronger and more reflective character as A Doll's House
progresses.
Nora realizes during the play that she has never really grown up into
an independent adult human being. For this reason, as Nora explains to her
husband Torvald, within the ending scene where she slams the front door and
leaves him and their three young children on their own (Ibsen, A Doll's
House, Act III) , Nora must find herself first, in order to possibly be
able to return, as an authentic person in her own right, to her husband and
family.
As Nora also explains to her husband near the end of the play, she
moved, as a newly married woman directly from her father's house into
marriage. Consequently Nora, even now, has no clear idea of herself as an
independent person, apart from the domination her father and now Torvald.
Nora does not know for sure, despite her already being a mother of three,
who she is, what she thinks, or what she believes in, independently from
others' (male) opinions. Therefore, she decides, she must now leave
Torvald and their family, in order to find out.
Nora is, in the beginning, a self-sacrificing; self-effacing...
It is only when
Nora learns that Torvald is indeed unappreciative of the risks she has
taken and the sacrifices she has made on his behalf in the past that she
realizes her self is not worth sacrificing to either an ungrateful,
unsympathetic husband or "appearances" anymore. It is for that reason that
Nora decides to leave her husband and children in order to pursue an
independent life so that she might finally reach her authentic state of
adulthood, instead of continuing to still lead the false, doll-like life
inside the "Doll's House" where she has lived up to now with Torvald.
Within this play the quest for selfhood and true personal identity and
integrity happens to be that of a woman, Nora. However Ibsen's A Doll's
House also is not merely a tired feminist play about outdated, long-
resolved women's issues. Looking deeper into it, the play really is not
about, either, one or another gender even if its protagonist is a female.
Nor is this play relevant to the late 18th century when Ibsen wrote it; or
within Europe (Norway in particular) where Ibsen lived. Instead Ibsen's
play A Doll's House is dramatic work in fact both universal and timeless:
in theme; conflict and resolution and deserves no less credit than that.
Work Cited
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House [full online text]. 14 Dec 2007
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Work Cited
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House [full online text]. 14 Dec 2007
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