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A Doll's House

In the play “A Doll’s House”, Henrik Ibsen illustrated the believable and remarkable transformation that Nora underwent. She made the extraordinary journey from one of little power, and even less influence; living within a world in which she was only a possession and a doll, to one of intellectual maturity, and decisiveness; one who was looking to find a world in which she could be an equal person, and one who could discover who she herself truly was.
Nora lived with her family, in a household where her husband, Torvald, was the one who held the true power and dominance above all. As his wife, she was simply another of his possessions, one who in his view, lived only for him, and was expected to conduct herself in such a manner that would please him, regardless of her personal sentiments.
Although Torvald treated her as one below him, perhaps as one might treat a child, Nora originally found that it was easier to fill this place of a child, and to fulfill the wishes...

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