Doll's House' it Appears That Nora Will

¶ … Doll's House' it appears that Nora will leave her husband. However, when one considers the events of the play, where the play ends, the reality of society and the other couple in the play, it appears more likely that Nora would return and stay with her husband. The central events of the play revolve around Nora's struggle against her place in society and her eventual exit from these social obligations. Nora is a woman who exists as she does because of the obligations of society.

She has not chosen her role, she has simply adopted it. We see that she has moved directly from her father's care to her husbands. This is emphasized by the fact that she has taken her nursemaid from her father's house to her husbands. We also see it referred to where her husband scolds her over money, saying her irresponsibility is a trait she inherited from her father. This inheritance from her father has a much greater meaning than the context in which it is used.

It refers to the fact that all of Lora's beliefs and feelings toward Torvald are inherited from her father. The fact that Lora is a product of her childhood is also emphasized by the interaction of Lora and Torvald in the opening scene. Torvald saying "Is that my little lark twittering...my squirrel rummaging.. " These comments are just the sort of thing that might be expected of a father speaking to a child.

Lora plotting and manipulating her husband in a playful way is also reminding of the way a child schemes to get their own way. The importance of these things is to remind us that Nora's feeling are not independently hers, they are a product of her childhood. She has not actually grown up, she has simply accepted her husband as a new father figure.

It is in the play itself that we see her grow up, when her beliefs about her husband are finally shattered and she comes to a new understanding. She then comes to see that her father and her husband have seen her as a doll to be played with and that she is not seen as someone with her own opinions or her own will. She realizes that her whole life has been based on illusion, not reality.

It is this realization that forces her to make her brave choice at the end and decide to leave her husband. We see now that Nora has grown up, she has become aware of herself and her place in the world. The realization that her life was based not on her own conscious choice, but on circumstance and society would be a major one for any individual. It would not be unexpected that one would react by rejecting the very life they had, Nora's husband being the center of it.

What we see here is Nora's immediate reaction to the shock of her realization. With time, one could expect that Nora would rethink her place. The fact that she is given a place by society is not something Nora can run from, it is a fact of the society of the time. While Nora may initially reject her husband it is likely that in time, she would reevaluate and return to her husband, though as a grown woman with a fuller awareness of why she is there.

We can also see this alluded to when we consider the relationship of Krogstad and Kristine. At the start of the play this couple were separated by dishonesty, whereas Nora and Torvald appeared to be the happy couple. By the end of the play Krogstad and Kristine have agreed to face their past mistakes and.