Analysis of A Doll House

A Doll House

Throughout the play A Doll House the character portrayed as Nora is living in a world of her own, seemingly oblivious to the noise around her almost as a child is in play. It is interesting to see that most of the play takes place in one room, and that until the last Act Nora is in every scene, like she is trapped in a domestic comfort. She was never taught or forced to bridle her imagination, until now.
There is a recurring element of the way women are seen in the context of marriage and maybe even as a parent. Torvald has a very clear definition of what he thinks a woman’s role ought to be. He believes that it is a sacred duty of a woman to be a good wife and mother. He sees women as both child-like and helpless creatures detached from reality. Torvald never tries to hides his feelings that Nora is a child, he even has pet names such as “little songbird”, “squirrel”, “lark”, “little featherhead”, little skylark”, “little person”, and...