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A doll's house

The events begin to succeed each other more and more rapidly and the ‘circle’ begins to spin around her. We find that, for saving her husband’s life, Nora has committed forgery and Krogstad is ready to use this information in order achieve his goals : ’’(…)if I produce this document in court, you’ll be condemned’’.(791) This element gives us a hint of women condition in a deeply- rooted man thought society . In addition, Dr. Rank, who had a lethal disease, confesses his love for her : ’’ You know now that I’m at your service, body and soul’’.(802) All these events make the circle tighten and spin faster around Nora, who can hardly resist to this pressure and seeks the relief in wildly dancing the ‘tarantella’, a dance wich she transforms into a ‘ life and death’ one. This dance can also be viewed as an one of the key element that permits us to say that she’s passing from a state of passive victim to a n early state of active agent : ’’ Nora dan...

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